Senior Manager, Business Unit Finance

Company Description

Forward with Cuscal

At Cuscal, our Commercial and Business teams are the backbone of our organisation. From supporting clients and driving growth to ensuring compliance, managing finances, and fostering a positive workplace culture, our people play a vital role in achieving our commercial objectives while staying true to our values.

If you’re looking for a role where your skills and ideas make a real impact, join us to help shape the future of payments in Australia.

Job Description

As our Senior Manager, Business Unit Finance, you will lead and develop a high-performing finance team responsible for delivering insightful financial analysis, forecasting, and decision support across the organisation. You will play a critical role in ensuring leaders have the financial intelligence needed to make informed, strategic decisions through rigorous planning and analysis, strong governance, and trusted business partnership.

This role owns the delivery of business and market-facing financial insights, forecasting, and performance analysis, partnering closely with stakeholders to support decisions that impact organisational performance, risk management, cost outcomes, and delivery capacity. You will provide commercial leadership and strategic financial guidance while driving accountability, continuous improvement, and best-practice financial management.

In addition, you will lead and develop the Business Unit Finance team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and professional growth, while establishing clear standards, frameworks, and processes that support best-practice finance partnering across the organisation.

Responsibilities

Provide commercially grounded advice on revenue, costs, and prioritisation

Lead near to medium-term planning and analysis for the company, including annual budget, forecasts, risks and opportunity monitoring, and performance commentary

Lead a rolling 18-month forecast approach that connects business activity

Ensure performance insights are clear, timely, and decision-useful for management, ELT, and Board reporting cycles

Support development of overarching performance narrative and provide insight to material movements, options, and implications

Work with Strategic Finance to ensure near, medium, and long-range planning remain aligned

Drive integration of acquisitions into Group FP&A processes and one financial story

Prepare and contribute to periodic financial reports, including profit and loss accounts, variance analysis, and commentary

Maintain discipline in results, forecasts, assumptions, risks and opportunities, and data quality

Ensure appropriate governance over accruals, provisions, cost centre structures, planning assumptions and material forecast changes

Partner with FP&A Centre of Excellence to improve templates, models, cadence, automation, and efficiency

Support implementation of Workday ERP

Qualifications

Essential:

10+ years of experience in FP&A or commercial finance.

5+ years leading a finance partnering team in a complex organisation

Excellent knowledge of accounting and financial principles and practices

Excellent knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and scenario/risk analysis

Strong financial modelling and management reporting experience

Proven ability to influence C-suite executives and senior business leaders using commercial insight and clear financial advice

Advanced skills with Excel and other MS products.

Desirable

Payments, banking, financial services, or APRA-regulated environment

Experience with reporting & planning systems such as Workday, TM1

Experience supporting integration, transformation, or operating model change

Additional Information

Why Cuscal?

At Cuscal, you’ll find a strong, successful company that’s reimagining the future. And our team is right there at the heart of it all.

Here, you’ll deliver ground-breaking work that has real impact - on Australia’s financial services sector and the millions of customers it serves. You’ll innovate alongside skilled, smart, connected teams. And you’ll build an impressive, fulfilling career that continues to grow.

You’ll also enjoy a range of benefits, including:

Work in a hybrid model that supports your lifestyle and goals

We celebrate success: Our IGNITE program recognises individual and team achievements.

Wellbeing focus: We support your physical, mental, and financial health with holistic initiatives and access to discounts via ‘Cuscal Advantage.’

Join us and reimagine the future:

If this role excites you, we’d love to explore your potential and vision for the future.

For further information about this role please contact Nicola Liney at nliney@cuscal.com.au

We welcome applicants from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with a disability, LGBTQIA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to explore career opportunities with Cuscal.

Note: Cuscal does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or search firms.