Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Senior Commercial Manager will serve as a trusted adviser to the Sydney Executive Team, providing strategic commercial, financial, and operational insights that drive performance and value creation.

Partnering closely with executive stakeholders and business leaders, you will deliver commercial advice, performance insights and strategic support that enables informed decision-making and effective resource allocation.

This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of commercial finance at The Star Sydney, supporting the ongoing transformation and turnaround of the business while influencing strategic outcomes, improving performance, and delivering sustainable value creation.

A few of your responsibilities

- Provide commercial and financial advice to support strategic and operational decision-making.

- Partner with senior leaders to strengthen commercial capability and financial discipline across the business.

- Lead, coach and develop a high-performing commercial finance team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.

- Lead the annual budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning processes, ensuring alignment with strategic and operational objectives.

- Deliver actionable insights and recommendations to drive performance and achieve strategic objectives.

- Drive revenue growth, profitability and margin improvement through commercial analysis and execution.

- Drive process improvement opportunities across commercial finance, leveraging technology, automation and AI-enabled solutions to enhance efficiency, reporting and decision-making

- Partner with Property and Finance teams to enhance reporting quality, consistency, and business insights.

- Lead performance reviews, benchmarking, and continuous improvement initiatives.





- Provide commercial and financial input into contractual and strategic initiatives.

What we will be looking for

- Proven ability to lead, influence and engage senior stakeholders.

- Strong commercial acumen with advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

- Advanced analytical and financial modelling skills, including Excel and planning/reporting systems (TM1 or similar).

- Hands-on — comfortable getting into the data and building the analysis yourself.

- Demonstrated experience leading high-performing teams and driving continuous process improvement initiatives.

- Casino or gaming industry experience highly regarded but not essential.

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or a related commercial discipline.

- 10+ years’ experience in financial or commercial management within a large organisation.

About you You are a commercially minded finance leader who thrives on partnering with senior stakeholders to drive business performance and strategic outcomes. With extensive experience in commercial finance, business partnering, budgeting and forecasting, and financial management, you bring a proven ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights that influence decision-making and deliver sustainable growth.

An exceptional communicator, you build trusted relationships across all levels of the business and can influence senior leaders through explicit, insightful, and data-driven recommendations.

You are a passionate people leader with a track record of building, developing and mentoring high-performing teams. You also embrace innovation and continuous improvement, using technology, automation and AI-driven solutions to simplify processes, improve reporting and unlock commercial value.

Please be aware that Special Employee (SE) licence with ILGA/OLGR approval is required as part of the recruitment process and ongoing employment for this position.

Ready to shine? Apply today and help shape the future of The Star Sydney.

📌 Senior Commercial Manager (Sydney)
🏢 The Star Entertainment Group
📍 Sydney