Finance Director

Your role

What You'll Be Doing

Management of the full finance function across Australasia with a focus on transforming the function including the team, systems, processes and control environment. Key member of the ANZ Leadership team driving the strategic direction of a high growth group of businesses.

Corpay is currently looking to hire an ANZ Finance Director within our Global Accounting & Finance division. This position falls under our International Fleet – Vehicle Payments line of business and can be based in either Auckland, NZ or Melbourne, AU. In this role, you will manage the full finance function across Australasia with a focus on transforming the function including the team, systems, processes and control environment. You will report directly to the IVP CFO and regularly collaborate with all areas of the business including commercial, product, and credit alongside the ANZ finance team.

How We Work

As the ANZ Finance Director, you will be expected to work in a hybrid office environment. Corpay will set you up for success by providing:

1. Assigned workspace in Auckland or Melbourne office
2. Company-issued equipment
3. Formal, hands-on training

Role Responsibilities

In addition to being part of the IVP Finance & Credit Leadership team, you will be an active and key member of the ANZ Leadership team. This will require you to provide support and recommendations to senior leadership regarding the position, performance, sustainability and management of the organization's financial resources. You'll be a strategic and commercial partner to the ANZ Managing Director, and lead a small, motivated finance team, overseeing day-to-day financial operations. Your role will also involve producing key financial documents such as P&L, balance sheets, and cashflow statements. In addition to these responsibilities, you will identify operational and process improvements across the client services function, manage cash flow to meet business requirements, and assist with budget preparation. As an experienced people leader with proven relational and EQ skills, the ideal candidate for this role will be someone with significant relevant experience in similar sized organisations. Beyond this, you will ideally be able to:

1. Think and act strategically. Have the ability to anticipate future trends accurately, communicate and engage broadly with others, and able to motivate your team to champion the organisations vision, mission, values and Strategic Framework.
2. Proven ability to translate complex financial information in a simple form to people whose priority less focused on financial outcomes.
3. Build and maintain a positive and inclusive performance culture that ensures continuous improvement across every aspect of the organisation but with a special focus on the finance function in order to deliver optimal results with your team.
4. Plan, prioritise, and organise work to achieve strategic and operational objectives for the organisation and the finance function.
5. Lead collaboratively, administer, and mitigate risks associated with the financial activities of the organisation to ensure the organisation has the financial capabilities to pursue and deliver its services, and enable the organisation to fulfil its vision, mission, and values.
6. Maintain strong, transparent relationships with and confidence of the ANZ Managing Director and other members of the leadership team.
7. Build strong relationships with external stakeholders including the auditors and banks.

Qualifications & Skills

We are seeking strategic thinker and collaborative relationship builder who can use their business acumen to help influence business decisions. You will require a broad grounding in finance and accounting, complimented with advanced stakeholder management and business partnering skills to support business strategy development and execution. Proven management experience is essential, together with attention to detail and accuracy, great communication and relationship-building skills. We are looking for someone who will passionately lead and manage the finance team and develop improvements in client services and processes. It's important that you are hands on, dynamic and willing to get to know the whole business.

To be considered for this role, you must also have the following skills and experience:

1. CA Qualification or equivalent
2. Strong knowledge of Excel
3. 6 to 8 years of finance management experience, preferably in payments or financial services
4. Experience driving transformation in Finance (including automation and efficiencies) while maintaining a customer focus, and improvement in the control environment.
5. Experience in complex accounting environments.
6. Experience operating in an international matrix environment
7. Experience working in a company with a high volume of transactions preferred.

Our Company & Purpose

Corpay is a global leader in business payments, laser focused on developing smarter ways for businesses to pay their expenses. Since 2000, Corpay has developed innovative digital solutions that help businesses better track, manage, and pay their expenses. Today, Corpay is an S&P 500 company with hundreds of thousands of customers using our products in over 200 countries. Companies of all sizes, industries and geographies rely on our product portfolio to manage spending more quickly, efficiently and securely than ever before.

We embrace a culture grounded in five key values: integrity, collaboration, innovation, execution and people. These values offer you the opportunity to 'thrive & grow' through career development, volunteer, community, and wellness initiatives. This allows you to create a balance between professional goals and personal achievement.

Corpay is also committed to building and nurturing a culture of diversity, inclusion, equality, and belonging by:

1. Welcoming people of different backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, genders, and sexual orientations;
2. Empowering our people to share their experiences and ideas through open forums and individual conversations;
3. Valuing each person's unique perspectives and individual contributions.

Embracing diversity enables our people to "make the difference" as Corpay and its more than 8,000 employees continue to shape the future of global payments.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Corpay is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Corpay provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, gender (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, language, ancestry, genetic information, veteran and/or military status or any other group status protected by federal or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation for the application and/or interview process, please notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.

About Corpay

Corpay is a global technology organisation that is leading the future of commercial payments with a culture of innovation that drives us to constantly create new and better ways to pay. Our specialized payment solutions help businesses control, simplify, and secure payment for fuel, general payables, toll and lodging expenses. Millions of people in over 80 countries around the world use our solutions for their payments.

All offers of employment made by Corpay (and its subsidiary companies) are subject to the successful completion of satisfactory pre-employment vetting by an independent supplier (Experian). This is in accordance with Corpay's Resourcing Policy and include employment referencing, identity, adverse financial, criminal and sanctions list checks. We do this to meet our legal and regulatory requirements.

Corpay is dedicated to encouraging a supportive and inclusive culture among our employees. It is within our best interest to promote diversity and eliminate discrimination in the workplace. We seek to ensure that all employees and job applicants are given equal opportunities.

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