Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Lead enterprise-wide FP&A and shape total-bank outcomesConnect performance, outlook and strategic choicesSydney CBD | Permanent opportunityWe are recruiting a Director, Financial Planning & Analysis for a permanent opportunity with a large, complex financial services organisation based in Sydney CBD.This is a senior enterprise finance leadership role with the opportunity to shape total-bank performance and decision-making. Leading the Financial Planning & Analysis team, you will bring together the organisation’s financial outlook, performance drivers, risks, opportunities and strategic trade-offs into one coherent enterprise view for senior leadership.This is a significant finance role with end-to-end accountability, enterprise-wide, and management reporting. Leading a capable team, you own the fact base, planning cadence, consolidated financial narrative, submission readiness, actuals, rolling forecasts, strategic planning cycles.Working across business lines and corporate functions to connect financial performance with business priorities, challenge assumptions and identify actions that improve outcomes. The immediate priority is to ensure dependable delivery and create clear ownership and trusted outputs. In parallel, you will lead a practical improvement agenda to simplify fragmented processes, strengthen controls, reduce manual intervention and build a more scalable planning and reporting capability.Key responsibilitiesLead the enterprise-wide FP&A agenda and provide a clear, forward-looking view of total-bank performance.Connect financial outcomes across income, costs, workforce, balance sheet and investment to identify risks, opportunities and trade-offs.Partner with senior Finance and business leaders to challenge assumptions, test choices and translate analysis into practical actions.Shape the consolidated financial narrative for senior leadership, bringing together business performance, outlook and strategic priorities.Lead total-bank planning and forecasting, ensuring assumptions are aligned and plans are credible, coherent and decision-useful.Lead and develop the Financial Planning & Analysis team, creating the capacity and confidence to provide high-quality insight and challenge.Maintain a trusted enterprise financial fact base, effective governance and executive-ready reporting across actuals, forecasts and strategic plans.Translate group and head-office requirements into proportionate local actions, clear ownership and coordinated execution.Simplify planning and reporting processes, strengthen controls and reduce manual effort so the team can focus increasingly on value-adding analysis.About youCA, CPA or equivalent professional qualification.Extensive leadership experience in enterprise FP&A, finance business partnering, management reporting, planning or a closely related discipline.A strong enterprise perspective and the ability to connect financial performance, business drivers and strategic priorities across a complex organisation.Credibility to challenge and influence senior Finance and business stakeholders, constructively test assumptions and help shape decisions.Proven accountability for complex planning, forecasting and executive-reporting cycles, with the discipline to deliver critical outcomes reliably.Experience translating group, regional or head-office requirements into practical local guidance, ownership and execution.A track record of leading capable teams and achieving outcomes through others while building clarity, confidence and accountability.Banking, financial services or another regulated and governance-intensive environment is desirable.Why consider this opportunity?This role offers the opportunity to lead total-bank FP&A, shape and take ownership of a critical enterprise finance capability, build on a capable team and leave a lasting improvement in how financial narrative and influence the decisions that drive performance—while ensuring the planning, consolidation and reporting capability beneath it is reliable, efficient and fit for purpose and are delivered.