Senior Strategic Finance Associate

**Our Purpose**

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

As the Senior Finance Analyst for Engineering & Technology you will play a pivotal role in providing expertise and insight to deliver leading financial, planning and analysis across your designated portfolio and team.

This position will work closely with Senior Finance Manager and key business partners to drive cost and capital expenditure optimization, financial planning, decision support, and partnership.

**What you'll do**:
- Partner with the Engineering & Technology EGMs & GMs, enabling faster and better decision making and performance within groups, consistent with the strategy of both the Engineering & Technology portfolio and Xero
- Lead the finance component of planning, reporting and forecasting for your portfolio
- Build, maintain, and improve dynamic financial models supporting the organization's budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning
- Execute current year delivery including creation of the annual budget and periodic reporting
- Management of all aspects of workforce planning ensuring FTEs and Open Role Planners are maintained, PO approval, and system inputs for forecasting / budgeting
- Contribute to the development and implementation of Xeroʼs capital allocation framework, reviewing capital expenditure and evaluating investments for the portfolio.
- Actively contribute to and provide support for projects/initiatives undertaken by the Finance team and by the wider Financial Planning team
- Be a proficient user of our planning and reporting systems, not only owning the inputs, but ensuring these are entered in a timely manner as required by reporting and forecasting timelines

**What you'll bring with you**:
- Exceptional business planning, budgeting/forecasting abilities
- Capability to spin up finance models, understand and reason the implications from an accounting perspective.
- Exceptional attention to detail, strong project management, negotiation and organizational skills and can thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Strong work ethic and self-motivation.
- Able to work effectively and collaboratively with different members of the team
- Ability to hold budget holders to account to deliver on financial commitments
- Capital expenditure and investment evaluation
- Strong data manipulation and modeling
- 5+ years of progressive financial experience within a commercial finance/FP&A team
- Experience with financial systems such as Anaplan, NetSuite and business intelligence tools. Anaplan experience strongly preferred.

**Success looks like**:
- Creation of strong relationships across the Engineering & Technology portfolio and wider Finance team.
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of the Engineering & Technology drivers and the overall business model
- Constant evolution of reporting and analysis
- Quality, accuracy and timeliness of deliverables
- Providing insightful analysis of transactional data and financial information
- Building relationships at all levels across the business
- Appropriate budgeting and forecast methods utilised effectively
- Operational reporting, forecasting and budgeting are completed in a robust and timely manner
- Robust business case preparation to ensure appropriate allocation of capital

**Why Xero?**

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.