Senior Financial Strategy & Planning Analyst

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Duration: Fixed-term until 16 May 2025
• Remuneration: $138,171 - $146,613 + 17% super + leave loading
• Location: UNSW Kensington (Hybrid Flexible Working)

The Organisation
UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. It’s the reason we’re one of the top 50 universities in the world and a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.

The Opportunity
The Finance Strategy and Planning team provides strategic financial capability to support University strategic planning and resource allocation decisions. The team provides financial management advice, benchmarks finance measures across Faculties and the overall University, and reviews or provide business case financials. The team has a key role in ensuring business proposals and existing UNSW forward estimates are robust and reflect known, anticipated and emerging fiscal risks.

Finance Strategy and Planning is responsible for developing and implementing a financial strategy to support major projects within UNSW and its current ten-year operational strategy. This function comprises a program management capability and a small team of analysts who provide advisory services to support decision making through financial analysis and modelling.

The Senior Finance Strategy & Planning Analyst reports to the Senior Manager – Finance Strategy & Planning and has no direct reports.

Responsibilities Summary

• Provide complex financial analysis, including financial modelling and scenario analysis including providing information and high-level advice to stakeholders to support the development of business proposals as well as improve decision-making and the financial performance of programs and initiatives across the University.
• Contribute to the financial and operational reviews of schools, research centers, and other business units across the University to ensure alignment with best practice and provide advice on opportunities for improvement.
• Provide expert advice on policies, guidelines, procedures, and strategies to improve decision making processes across the university and continuous improvement in line with the changing requirements of university management and government policy.
• Manage risk by ensuring business proposals and existing UNSW forward estimates are robust and reflect known, anticipated and emerging fiscal risks.
• Progress the review and recommendation of existing strategies, objectives, policy, and procedures and contribute to recommendations for improving the delivery of financial management practices across the University.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives in-line with the changing requirements of university management and government policy towards the higher education sector.
• Maintain an awareness of how the university’s faculties and divisions operate to anticipate and identify requirements for the successful implementation of key projects and plans.
• Assist with the development of appropriate financial forecasts to support the university in the achievement of its strategic objectives.

For more information regarding the responsibilities for this role, please refer to the Position Description at JOBS@UNSW.

Who you are

• CA or CPA qualification (or equivalent), supplemented with demonstrated success in business analysis and managing multiple complex projects in a large and diverse organisation
• Well-developed written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to develop, analyse and interpret complex data and data models and provide strategic direction and advice to senior management and to nonfinance managers
• Demonstrated experience in providing clear and relevant analytical insights and financial modelling
• Capability to challenge the status quo where required and be proactive in developing improvements in finance policies and practices
• Ability to work independently, taking initiative to identify and overcome barriers with pragmatic workarounds

UNSW Benefits and Culture: People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world. Our benefits include:

• Flexible Working Options (work from home, flexible hours etc)
• Career development opportunities
• 17% Superannuation contributions, additional leave-loading payments and salary sacrifice.
• Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness)

How to Apply: Make each day matter with a meaningful career at UNSW. Submit your application online before the 1^st of May at 11:30pm. A copy of the Position Description can be on JOBS@UNSW.

Please ensure you submit both CV and a Cover Letter addressing the selection criteria.

Job queries contact: Lucy Gerondis, Talent Acquisition Consultant
E: [email protected] (applications to the address cannot be accepted, please apply online)

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.