Company Description
Lendi Group is the new group born out of the merger of Aussie Home Loans and Lendi. As a Group we operate a multi-brand strategy across Aussie Home Loans and Lendi, pulling together a truly personalised home loans experience for the Australian audience that balances both human support and smart technology.
We’re revolutionising the industry with best-in-class technology and a suite of tools that takes the hard work out of home loans – for our Customers and Brokers alike.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion are fundamental to the success of Lendi Group. We’re passionate about fostering an environment where our team members feel valued and supported and we celebrate everyone’s unique identity.
To learn more about life at Lendi Group check out our blog: https://www.lendi.com.au/inspire/category/life-at-lendi/
Job Description
The Finance team at Lendi Group comprises Financial Reporting and Operations, Corporate Development, and Business Partnering professionals with a common mission to build the leading modern finance team. We go beyond spreadsheets and PowerPoint by leveraging best-in-class technology to deliver fact-based insights and decision support to influence business strategy.
What you will do:
- Monitor business and cost trends, and provide insightful financial and commercial insights to enable strategic and operational decisions
- Be the subject matter expert and go-to Finance contact across functional areas
- Coordination and delivery of the annual Budget, periodic forecasts, input into Board reporting and Investor presentations
- Develop modelling capability within Anaplan and support further business adoption
- Preparation of ad hoc business case financials, to test commercial viability of business decisions
- Responsible for monthly results including analytical commentary to discuss with senior leaders of the business.
- Identify opportunities focused on process improvement, leveraging technology to improve reporting and forecasting.
- Lead by example and influence as a key member of the Business Partnering team, having 1 direct report
- Partner with the financial reporting and operations team and contribute to overall financial control effectiveness.
- Role model best practices in risk culture in all our processes
Qualifications
- Qualified CPA or CA or equivalent
- Previous background in finance business partnering and in an FP&A role.
- Advanced level of Excel modelling skills (Anaplan experience is beneficial but not a pre-requisite)
- Analytical, with a strong eye for detail and a high level of commercial acumen to drive and achieve successful business outcomes.
- A collaborative working style to partner business stakeholders, management and with finance colleagues
- Continuous improvement mindset; curious, proactive and challenge the status-quo
- Effective time management, ability to meet deadlines and operate under time pressure in a dynamic environment
- Prior industry experience in either banking or a sales distribution organisation is beneficial but not a pre-requisite
- Experience in the end to end-to-end leadership of risk management in complex corporate environments highly regarded
- Working knowledge of BI tools beneficial
- Commitment to deliver exceptional service to both internal and external customers.
Additional Information
- We're Flex First – We've embraced a hybrid, flexible working model that adapts to team members needs and lifestyles.
- We offer extended Paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with up to 26 weeks of leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers.
- An additional week’s Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years’ service.
We are a people-first company that invests in initiatives to promote a healthy work environment, such as offering an Employee Assistance Program and social groups such as our industry-leading Women in Technology group.
Employee health and wellbeing are paramount at Lendi Group. We’re excited to offer access to Sonder, our Employee Assistance Program, for comprehensive support for your wellbeing
Our culture is guided by our 3 core values: We Are Stronger United; Act Like You Own It; and Keep Home Loans Human. Our values are part of our core DNA that helps Lendi Group attract, engage and evolve talent and build best-in-class products.
Lendi Group is a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer; we value a positive candidate experience and commit to responding to every applicant. Once we have received your application, we will reach out to you via email.
Feeling like you don’t meet all the skills listed? That’s ok; we are always on the lookout for different skills, experience, and qualities and so we’d still like to hear from you.
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What We Do
We are one of Australia’s fastest growing fintechs, building market leading technology to transform the home loan industry through our powerhouse property lending brands and networks - Aussie and Lendi. Lendi Group exists to transform the stressful, disjointed and sometimes overwhelming journey of financing a property into a friction-free experience for everyone involved. Our cross-functional team of super smart experts and brokers power our brands, products, services, relationships and platforms to help more Australians secure their property dreams, seamlessly. With a shared history of challenging the status quo, our brands provide different experiences for customers but the endgame is always to help more Australians achieve their home ownership dreams.
