At Aristocrat, we're powering the future of play through world-class talent, market-leading products, and a relentless focus on innovation. As we continue our global growth journey, we're seeking a transformational leader to design and build a next-generation enterprise planning capability that will directly influence how we invest, scale, and compete.
It's a rare opportunity to lead an enterprise-wide transformation, partnering with senior executives to redefine how strategic workforce decisions are made across a global technology and gaming business. You will architect the future state planning model, modernise planning processes, leverage data and AI-driven insights, and establish a globally integrated approach that links talent, strategy, and financial performance. This opportunity is ideal for a motivated leader who flourishes in a dynamic atmosphere and wants to create substantial impact!
What You'll Do
- Define and implement a future-state operating model across Finance, P&C, Business Units, Corporate Functions, and Enterprise Data & Analytics, including accountabilities, decision rights, and governance forums.
- Redesign the end-to-end workforce planning cycle from strategic demand through to budget, forecast, reporting, and executive decision-making.
- Lead the enterprise workforce planning transformation, encompassing the rationale for change, transformation roadmap, main accomplishments, and ongoing integration of new methods.
- Partner with Finance, P&C, and executive leaders to translate strategic priorities, organisational changes, and growth plans into governed workforce plans.
- Drive process standardisation, planning assumptions, data definitions, reporting standards, governance routines, and approval pathways to improve consistency, transparency, and accountability.
- Deliver robust workforce budgets and forecasts covering headcount, labour costs, contractors, and workforce-related investments.
- Own consolidated headcount forecasting, including workforce trends, vacancies, hiring pipelines, attrition, contractor usage, efficiency, and labour cost movements.
- Develop workforce scenarios to assess growth, efficiency initiatives, organisational redesign, acquisitions, restructuring, and labour investment choices.
- Work with the Regional Centre's Of Excellence to ensure appropriate workforce planning reporting, dashboarding, and self-service analytics are developed, maintained, and aligned to collaborator needs.
- Provide executive insights on transformation progress, workforce performance, labour cost trends, forecast accuracy, efficiency, risks, and opportunities.
- Promote the adoption of change by engaging collaborators, analyzing change impact, facilitating communication, offering training, preparing documentation, and developing capabilities.
- Lead and mentor the Workforce Planning Manager and Finance Analysts, building capability in transformation delivery, workforce analytics, financial modelling, and business partnering.
What We're Looking For
- Minimum of 12+ years' experience across Finance Transformation, FP&A, Workforce Planning, Analytics, or related roles in complex global organisations.
- Deep experience leading enterprise transformation programs, including current-state assessment, future-state development, implementation planning, delivery governance, and benefits realisation.
- Structured problem solver with excellent data and financial analysis skills.
- Strategy development through to implementation skills.
- Proven experience redesigning finance or planning processes, operating models, governance structures, and decision forums across complex collaborator groups.
- Strong transformation delivery capability, including roadmap development, achievement tracking, dependency management, risk mitigation, issue resolution, and executive status reporting.
- Experience integrating balanced change through working with collaborators, evaluating change effects, communications, training, documentation, and adoption assistance.
- Strong understanding of workforce planning, headcount forecasting, labour cost management, efficiency drivers, and the link between workforce investment and financial outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to use data, automation, AI-enabled tools, and advanced analytics to transform planning quality, forecasting accuracy, insight generation, and decision support.
- Experience driving innovation in planning tools, dashboards, self-service reporting, and data governance, including platforms such as Anaplan, Workday, TM1, D365, Power BI, or similar.
This job description may have been reviewed and enhanced using AI-assisted tools to improve clarity, consistency, and inclusivity. All final content, role requirements and hiring decisions remain subject to human review and approval by Aristocrat.
We offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package designed to stay competitive in the market, support your wellbeing, and recognise your contribution to our success. Our approach is underpinned by a pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact. Your specific compensation package will be determined by factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location.
Depending on your role and location, you may be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits.
Specific details about compensation and benefits for this position will be discussed during the recruitment process.
Aristocrat Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
2 Drake Ave, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2113
