Group Head Office Finance Manager

• Location: Sydney

• Type: Permanent, full time

• Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working

The opportunity

Are you a strategic finance leader with a passion for driving excellence in reporting and operational efficiency? We’re looking for a dynamic Group Head Office Finance Manager to lead the financial control function of our Group Head Office entities. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for delivering high quality financial reporting and insightful analytics that support business decisions. This is your opportunity to make a strategic impact in a global organisation, working alongside high-performing teams across both onshore and offshore locations.

Your new role

As the Group Head Office Finance Manager, you’ll lead a team of finance professionals to deliver end-to-end management accounting and statutory reporting processes. You will ensure timely, accurate, and compliant financial reporting, and play a leading role in driving continuous improvement and operational excellence across the function.

Key responsibilities include:

• Financial Control and Operations: Oversee day-to-day finance activities for Group Head Office entities, ensuring timely delivery of results and compliance with accounting and regulatory requirements.

• Process Optimisation:  Lead initiatives to enhance systems and processes, driving efficiency and improving the quality and consistency of deliverables.

• Reporting Excellence: Manage the preparation and delivery of quarterly and annual reporting, including management packs, board presentations, and standalone financial statements.

• Audit & Compliance: Drive the year-end close process, coordinate with auditors, and ensure audit readiness and quality.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal stakeholders across the business (e.g. Tax, Group Finance, FP&A, Treasury, Company Secretary) and external partners to deliver outcomes that support decision-making and high quality reporting.

• Leadership: Inspire, develop and manage a high-performing team, fostering a culture of accountability, professional growth, and ethical conduct.

About you:

• Proven Experience in financial reporting, statutory compliance, and management accounting in a complex corporate environment.

• Strong Technical Acumen with a deep understanding of financial systems, reporting standards, and foreign exchange exposure management.

• Leadership Skills to inspire, guide, and develop a geographically dispersed team.

• Stakeholder Savvy with the ability to build trusted relationships across diverse functions and levels.

• Analytical Mindset with a focus on quality, accuracy, and continuous improvement.

• Resilience & Agility to navigate challenges, drive change, and deliver results under pressure.

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 26 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

• Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice

• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super

• The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching

• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums

• Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network

• Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following 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 3rd place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2024 for medium sized program as voted by graduates

• Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)

• Family First 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 recruitment@qbe.com

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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.