Role: Finance Director

Location: Sydney - Hybrid

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The Opportunity:

The Finance Director serves as a strategic liaison between the Commercial Finance, the Group Finance function and the local market team. This role is pivotal in driving financial performance, supporting decision-making, and enhancing operational efficiency. The Finance Director plays a critical role in driving growth and profitability, taking a lead role in evaluating the financial performance of the Group against strategic objectives, through the use of models, accounting software and MI analysis tools. In this role you will become a trusted advisor to the regional leadership team, identifying opportunities for improvement and providing robust financial evaluation to inform and influence decision making.

Job Responsibilities:

Partnering Country Head:

Provide strategic financial insight and guidance to the country director to inform key decisions related to growth, profitability, and business performance.
Supporting external sales and managing appropriate external local relationships.

Commercial Finance:

Budgeting and forecasting for the APAC market and hand off with capability FBP’s.
Engagement with delivery heads, market leads and FBP’s on forecasting and planning for optimisation.
Embedding engagement and delivering commercial insight to the local team.
Provide accurate weekly R&O updates.
Appraise investment opportunities and work with the leadership team to optimise and provide post investment appraisal.
Support the wider GCF team with ad-hoc special projects and the development of planning models to evaluate future performance, as required.
Ability to articulate to GCF Director what is “good, bad, getting better, getting worse” and make recommendations.

Local Financial Operations and Control:

Lead a team of 3 to deliver the local finance operations across the APAC region in all aspects of financial control.
Oversees P&L ownership, balance sheet management, and cash flow for the division.
Deliver monthly management accounts and associated insight.
Optimise financial systems and processes that support effective decision-making, cost control, and operational efficiency.
Ensure that all data and reporting on the region is robust and accurate, highlighting inaccuracies and driving continuous improvement, cross functionally.
Work closely with internal and external auditors to maintain a robust internal control and compliance environment.

Requirements:

Professional accounting qualification (e.g CPA, CA).
Financial leadership experience.
Proven experience in financial control, financial modelling, business partnering, and strategic decision support.
Strong financial acumen, with expertise in financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
Proven leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate at various levels in the organisation.
Advanced proficiency in financial software. It is desirable to have experience of Workday and Salesforce alongside other financial modelling tools and Excel.
Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders.
Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Behaviours:

Focusing on Clients and Customers.
Working as One NCC.
Always Learning.
Being Inclusive and Respectful.
Delivering Brilliantly.

About NCC Group

The NCC Group family has over 2,200 members located all around the world, providing a trusted advisory service to 15,000 customers. Born in the UK, we have now have offices in North America, Canada, Europe, Asia- Pacific and United Arab Emirates.

We are passionate about helping our customers to protect their brand, value and reputation against the ever-evolving threat landscape. We fuel that passion with investment in our people and our business.

Our values and code of ethics are at the heart of how we operate – we work together, we are brilliantly creative and we embrace difference. We treat everyone and everything with equal respect. We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel psychologically, emotionally and physically safe to be authentic, sharing their personal experiences to represent the diversity of the world they live in, and have equal opportunity to achieve their best.

About your application

We review every application received and will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days, please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles.

If you do not want us to retain your details, please email global.ta@nccgroup.com. All personal data is held in accordance with the NCC Group Privacy Policy. We are committed to diversity and flexibility in the workplace. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the application process, please tell us at any stage.

Please note that this role involves mandatory pre-employment background checks due to the nature of the work NCC Group does. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the vetting process.