What you’ll be doing
The Finance Business Partner will play a key role within the commercial finance team, partnering with stakeholders across carsales’ Australian business to provide trusted financial advice, challenge thinking, and support strategic and operational decision-making. The role is responsible for leading planning and forecasting activities, delivering meaningful performance insights, and translating financial and commercial data into clear recommendations that improve growth, profitability, and resource allocation. Acting as a true business partner, this role will influence outcomes through strong stakeholder engagement, commercial acumen, and a proactive focus on opportunities, risks, and continuous improvement.
You’ll
- Partner with business leaders across the Australian business to provide financial insight, challenge assumptions, and support strategic and operational decision-making.
- Lead the preparation of budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans, ensuring alignment between financial outcomes, operational priorities, and business strategy.
- Deliver high-quality month-end reporting, including variance analysis, commentary, and actionable recommendations for stakeholders and leadership.
- Develop and maintain robust financial models, scenario analysis, and business cases to support pricing, investment decisions, new initiatives, and strategic projects.
- Monitor key business drivers, revenue performance, costs, and market trends to identify risks, opportunities, and areas for performance improvement.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including sales, product, operations, analytics, and data science to translate complex data into commercially meaningful insights.
- Support and influence stakeholder decision-making through clear communication of financial implications, trade-offs, and recommended actions.
- Support M&A activity through financial analysis, due diligence, valuation input, and integration planning as required.
- Identify and drive continuous improvement in planning, reporting, and finance processes to enhance insight, efficiency, and business performance.
