At Aristocrat, we're powering the future of play through world-class talent, market-leading products, and a relentless focus on innovation. As we continue our global growth journey, we're seeking a transformational leader to design and build a next-generation enterprise planning capability that will directly influence how we invest, scale, and compete.

It's a rare opportunity to lead an enterprise-wide transformation, partnering with senior executives to redefine how strategic workforce decisions are made across a global technology and gaming business. You will architect the future state planning model, modernise planning processes, leverage data and AI-driven insights, and establish a globally integrated approach that links talent, strategy, and financial performance. This opportunity is ideal for a motivated leader who flourishes in a dynamic atmosphere and wants to create substantial impact

At Aristocrat, we're powering the future of play through world-class talent, market-leading products, and a relentless focus on innovation. As we continue our global growth journey, we're seeking a transformational leader to design and build a next-generation enterprise planning capability that will directly influence how we invest, scale, and compete.

It's a rare opportunity to lead an enterprise-wide transformation, partnering with senior executives to redefine how strategic workforce decisions are made across a global technology and gaming business. You will architect the future state planning model, modernise planning processes, leverage data and AI-driven insights, and establish a globally integrated approach that links talent, strategy, and financial performance.



This opportunity is ideal for a motivated leader who flourishes in a agile atmosphere and wants to create substantial impact

What You'll Do

- Define and implement a future-state operating model across Finance, P&C;, Business Units, Corporate Functions, and Enterprise Data & Analytics, including accountabilities, decision rights, and governance forums.
- Redesign the end-to-end workforce planning cycle from strategic demand through to budget, forecast, reporting, and executive decision‑making.
- Lead the enterprise workforce planning transformation, encompassing the rationale for change, transformation roadmap, main accomplishments, and ongoing integration of new methods.
- Partner with Finance, P&C;, and executive leaders to translate strategic priorities, organisational changes, and growth plans into governed workforce plans.
- Drive process standardisation, planning assumptions, data definitions, reporting standards, governance routines, and approval pathways to improve consistency, transparency, and accountability.
- Deliver robust workforce budgets and forecasts covering headcount, labour costs, contractors, and workforce‑related investments.
- Own consolidated headcount forecasting, including workforce trends, vacancies, hiring pipelines, attrition, contractor usage, efficiency, and labour cost movements.
- Develop workforce scenarios to assess growth, efficiency initiatives, organisational redesign, acquisitions, restructuring,



and labour investment choices.
- Work with the Regional Centre's Of Excellence to ensure appropriate workforce planning reporting, dashboarding, and self‑service analytics are developed, maintained, and aligned to collaborator needs.
- Provide executive insights on transformation progress, workforce performance, labour cost trends, forecast accuracy, efficiency, risks, and opportunities.
- Promote the adoption of change by engaging collaborators, analysing change impact, facilitating communication, offering training, preparing documentation, and developing capabilities.
- Lead and mentor the Workforce Planning Manager and Finance Analysts, building capability in transformation delivery, workforce analytics, financial modelling, and business partnering.

What We're Looking For

- Minimum of 12+ years' experience across Finance Transformation, FP&A;, Workforce Planning, Analytics, or related roles in complex global organisations.
- Deep experience leading enterprise transformation programs, including current‑state assessment, future‑state development, implementation planning, delivery governance, and benefits realisation.
- Structured problem solver with excellent data and financial analysis skills.
- Strategy development through to implementation skills.
- Proven experience redesigning finance or planning processes, operating models, governance structures, and decision forums across complex collaborator groups.
- Strong transformation delivery capability, including roadmap development, achievement tracking, dependency management, risk mitigation, issue resolution, and executive status reporting.
- Experience integrating balanced change thr

📌 Senior Director: Enterprise Workforce Planning Transformation (Ryde)
🏢 Aristocrat
📍 Ryde