Job Description

Title: CFO Business Partner

Company Name: Airservices Australia

Vacancy: 2

Job Location: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane,

Employment Status: Full Time

The Organisation

Airservices is a government owned organisation providing safe, secure, efficient and environmentally responsible services to the aviation industry.
Each year we manage over four million aircraft movements carrying more than 156 million passengers, and provide air navigation services across 11 per cent of the world’s airspace.

The Role

We are seeking experienced strategic influencers with a strong commercial mindset that are able to make decisions, drive performance and lead commercial initiatives.

As a Chief Financial Officer Business Partner you will provide strategic commercial advice and insights, build commercial capability, collaborate across the business and be a trusted advisor to the Executive.

Strategic financial and commercial advice - The role will be provide strategic advice across the full range of CFO activities to Executive leaders across the business.  The CFO function includes Finance, Procurement, Asset Planning and Program Delivery.

Strategy and Solutions – The role will research, design, develop and provide financial and commercial change initiatives aligned to the business strategy.  It will also play a lead role in the implementation of organisation wide CFO initiatives and ensure the effective coordination and engagement of relevant financial and commercial expertise. It will also focus on supporting the CFO to deliver on domain specific initiatives.

Coaching and Capability Development - Mature the commercial and financial acumen of the business (i.e. capability development)

The Person

To be successful in this role you will have experience in providing strategic CFO domain advice to facilitate long-term commercial thinking. You will have the ability to develop and maintain a broad range of relationships across the organisation at the peer and more senior levels. It is essential you are able to positively influence stakeholders and deliver cross functional business improvement activities.

Team Culture

The CFO Business Partnering team is a new team of professionals who work across the business.  The team has a supportive environment which fosters collaboration and accountability to promote a trust-based, inclusive culture centred on principles of care and purpose.

Skills, Competencies and Qualifications

• Support the provision of insights around improvement opportunities from across the business to support the development of the improvement agenda for the CFO domain
• Liaise with other domain Business Partners to drive consolidated  planning & reporting
• Collaborate with other areas from CFO to input domain insights into financial planning and analysis to inform strategy development and set domain targets
• Develop trusted relationships with the Executive
• Mature the commercial and financial acumen of the business (i.e. capability development)
• Identify and undertake financial/commercial analysis of key performance levers for the business
• Deliver critical decision support focused on performance improvement
• Co-design reports to drive CFO Performance
• Co-ordinate CFO leadership meetings and provide guidance on effective delivery of outcomes
• Be the central interface point for the business to the CFO domain
• Lead cross functional teams to deliver business improvement initiativeProvide strategic CFO domain advice to facilitate long-term commercial thinking for Chiefs and senior leaders

Qualifications

• A tertiary qualification in finance or business related field.

Please see the link below to view the Position Description: 

 RRS CFO - Partner(ASA6).pdf

For enquiries regarding this position, please contact Jenny Holmesby via [email protected]

How to Apply

Please lodge an application online via the “apply” link, attaching a maximum two page cover letter including: a brief outline of your skills, experience, work history and if applicable, any information relating to career development.

Applications close: 11:55pm (AEST), Monday 5th April 2021. 

Please refer to the security check requirements successful applicants will be required to undertake as part of the recruitment process.

Airservices values social and cultural diversity and is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and the provision of a safe and healthy work environment.

In the interests of safety, we test for alcohol and other drugs.