Finance Business Partner - Business

• Location: Sydney
• Type: Fixed Term Contract (up to 9 months)
• Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working

The opportunity

We’re offering an exciting fixed-term opportunity for an experienced Finance Business Partner to support our SME Business Unit during a period of parental leave cover. In this role, you’ll act as a strategic liaison between Finance and senior stakeholders, providing expert guidance and insights to enable sound financial decision-making.

Your new role

As the Finance Business Partner for the SME Business Unit, you will deliver high-quality financial support to senior leadership, overseeing financial planning, management reporting, and performance analysis. This role is responsible for leading management accounting activities, including regular forecasting, planning cycles, and insightful analysis to inform strategic decisions. You will also head Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), ensuring alignment between financial operations and long-term business objectives, while driving the efficient delivery of professional services across the unit.

A day in the role may look a bit like this:

• Drive Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) across the SME business unit, supporting senior management with strategic insights and decision-making.
• Implement financial planning processes, challenge expense plans, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Manage budget preparation and consolidation, delivering timely management reporting and performance analysis.
• Prepare and present financial reports to senior leaders and stakeholders, translating data into actionable insights.
• Build trusted relationships with senior management, providing expert financial advice and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
• Support process optimisation and governance improvements in FP&A, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and efficient service delivery.

About you

To be successful as a Finance Business Partner, you will be an insurance professional with strong financial planning and analysis, budgeting, and reporting expertise. You will have the ability to communicate complex financial insights clearly to stakeholders and a strategic mindset that aligns financial operations with business goals.

You will also have:

• Proven experience as Finance Business Partner or FP&A professional with proven success in financial consulting within the insurance sector.
• Excel at forward planning and forecasting and remain curious and adaptable in dynamic environments.
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills that enable you to lead, influence, and negotiate effectively with senior leaders.
• Ability to provide commercially astute, data-backed advice that supports strategic decision-making at the highest levels.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong attention to detail.

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen!

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest
• Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• Voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
• A range of discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our Respect@QBE program
• 2023 Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards 
• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
• Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
• Ranked in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
• Family Friendly Workplace accredited employer since 2021

Apply now

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen! 

Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at [email protected]

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.