Senior Manager Performance Analytics

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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Bank) is Australia's leading provider of integrated financial services. They are committed to continuously improving governance practices and ensuring that they are aligned with business, stakeholders and customers’ needs.

In Financial Services, we support the Group’s strategy of building tomorrow’s bank today for our customers, through a focus on three key priorities of trust, resilience and capital generation. Financial Services partner with all areas of CommBank to specialist advice, support and services in finance, audit, treasury, property, procurement, climate strategy and investor relations.

Do work that matters

As the Senior Manager, Performance Analytics, the purpose of the role is to help deliver the strategic agenda for FR&A. This will involve delivering value-adding, insightful reporting and analysis to the Board, CEO, CFO, ELT, Executive General Manager Group Finance, and Group Treasurer, relating to the strategic direction and performance of the Group.

You will drive the development of analytical infrastructure to assist the Group meet its strategic priorities. You will be a key contributor to the digitisation and optimisation of financial reporting processes to deliver insights that support decision making.

See yourself in our team
 

The Group Financial Reporting & Analysis (FR&A) team provides financial support to the CEO, CFO, Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Board. The team’s areas of focus include:

• Performance & Investment Reporting and Analysis – performance analysis, monthly management reporting for the Group and Profit Announcement reporting to shareholders
• Planning and Forecasting – ownership of the Group’s Planning & Forecasting process, strategic and ad-hoc analysis
• Group Reporting & Accounting Policy – specialist accounting advice on transactions and maintenance of accounting policy and co-ordination of the Annual Report to shareholders
• Decision Support – strategic projects, insight development and ad-hoc analysis
   

We’re interested in hearing from people who will aspire to

• Help drive out productivity improvements across our key reporting processes
• Create data visualisations, dashboards and/or reports that provide a unified view across Group Performance Reporting to drive actionable insights for better business outcomes
• Seek to enhance financial reporting analytics
• Articulate key business drivers, provide critical insights to drive discussion, and deliver value-add analysis of all Group businesses for the Executive Committee and Board
• Demonstrable ability in managing and balancing priorities. Ability to manage multiple concurrent engagements effectively.
• Share time and knowledge with other team members to support continued development, drive team engagement and build a stronger team.
• Ensure continuity of delivery from automation solutions through a thorough change control process.
• Build and maintain productive relationships with Finance and Non-Finance stakeholders, including Business Unit Finance Teams, Investor Relations, Treasury, Risk Management and Group Strategy

Other qualities you may possess include

• You are naturally curious and driven about how data can be used to identify new opportunities and make impactful business decisions. 
• Strong analytical, problem solving skills, and commercial acumen
• You're likely to have used several of the following languages / environments, and you get excited by the prospect of learning more: SQL, Tableau, R, Python
• You are confident you can get data into a form that you can work with, whatever format it starts in - whether that's a relational database, text file, or anything else, and can suitably visualise it for others. 
• Knowledge of visualisation best practices for complex data relationships
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously
• Innovative and able to drive results

Working with us means

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career here is for you. At CommBank, we advocate and facilitate a culture of inclusion and respect, celebrating all cultures, abilities, genders, expressions of gender and sexual orientation. Read more about our commitment to inclusion and diversity on our website. 

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive and flexible workplace. We are working hard to recruit people who represent the diversity of our customers and our society. If you're excited about this opportunity but you don't meet every single requirement, or your experience doesn't align perfectly, we still want to encourage you to send in your application. You may just be the perfect candidate for this opportunity or another within CommBank. 

At CommBank we will inspire you with work that makes a difference, surround you with talented people that respect and value each other, and empower you to grow professionally and personally. Most of all, making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day. 

We’re determined to make a real difference for Australia’s first peoples. We encourage all interested applicants to apply. If you’re already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including BankWest), you’ll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career. 

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