Grow your career with a global retailer as a Senior Analyst within our Financial Planning and Analysis team at ALDI Australia, based in Minchinbury. This is a full-time permanent position.

With the opportunity to leave a lasting imprint on the business and influence our success, your work will extend beyond financial spreadsheets. At ALDI, you will help shape a more profitable and sustainable future not only for the company but also for the customers and communities we serve.

Come join us at ALDI, a place where your financial acumen can make a real difference to real people.

Key responsibilities: 

• Conduct period-end activities, including quarterly business reviews
• Prepare financial forecasting, including the provision of insights, trends and key drivers to enhance business performance. This includes long range planning, monthly/ quarterly forecasting, and annual planning
• Partner with stakeholders to provide financial support on business strategy and annual budgets for the business
• Report and analyse actuals against budgets and forecasts, providing in-depth commercial insights into performance
• Prepare and review presentations for our Executive leadership team with actionable insights, risks and opportunities identification and recommendations
• Participate and at times lead projects both locally and internationally. Be the subject matter expertise in area that fall within the scope of FP&A

About the role:

This critical position within Ignition's core FinOps team empowers the business to make informed decisions through precise financial data, ensuring robust financial integrity across all departments. It offers an excellent opportunity for those eager to propel their careers in a dynamic, fast-growing, and culture-driven technology startup.

What your day to day will look like:

Finance 

• Month-End Close: Lead the month-end closing process, ensuring all financial activities are completed accurately and on time.
• Balance Sheet Reviews: Conduct thorough monthly balance sheet reviews and provide final approval.
• Audit Management: Coordinate the external audit and financial statement preparation process, working closely with auditors and advisors. Continuously seek to identify additional requirements and engage auditors proactively.
• Control Implementation: Champion the implementation of recommended control and reporting enhancements.
• Policy Development: Design and enforce financial policies and procedures; train business stakeholders and finance team members on best practices.
• Process Oversight: Oversee and assist accounts receivable, accounts payable, delegation, and procurement processes to ensure efficiency and accuracy.
• Grants and Incentives: Manage the review and application process for available grants and incentives.
• Financial Reporting: Assist in preparing detailed monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Support budgeting and forecasting activities, providing key insights and analysis.
• Variance Analysis: Perform variance analysis to identify financial discrepancies and provide actionable insights to management.
• Consolidated Financial Statements: Assist in preparing consolidated financial statements.

Tax & Compliance

• Tax and Compliance Oversight: Oversee the tax and compliance obligations of all entities, collaborating with local outsourced accounting providers.
• Transfer Pricing: Assist with the implementation and ongoing review of transfer pricing policies to ensure compliance and efficiency.
• Compliance Calendar Maintenance: Maintain a comprehensive compliance calendar for all jurisdictions, ensuring timely regulatory and tax filings.
• Tax Filing Approvals: Review and approve annual, quarterly, and monthly tax filings.
• Ad Hoc Reporting: Manage ad hoc reporting requirements for investors and venture capital partners, including audits and tax reports.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all activities comply with local, state, and federal tax regulations.
• Tax Return Preparation: Assist in preparing and filing tax returns, keeping abreast of changes in tax laws.
• Continuous Tax Review: Assist with the continuous review and maintenance of tax records, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Audit Coordination: Coordinate with external auditors and tax advisors to facilitate smooth audits.
• Compliance Submissions: Manage compliance submissions such as 1099 forms, ensuring timely and accurate filing.

Treasury 

• Debt and Banking Reporting: Manage debt covenant reporting and other banking-related reporting requirements.
• Funding Monitoring: Monitor and ensure the funding needs of each entity are met, facilitating additional funding where necessary.
• Daily Banking Oversight: Oversee daily business banking, treasury operations, and foreign exchange management, including forecasting.
• Banking Authority: Review and ensure appropriate delegatory authority for banking facilities.
• Facility Evaluation: Evaluate banking and foreign exchange facilities to ensure they meet the company's needs.
• Cash Flow Management: Assist in managing cash flow and ensuring liquidity for operational needs.
• Banking Relationships: Maintain and manage relationships with banking partners.
• Foreign Exchange Transactions: Support the execution of foreign exchange transactions.
• Investment Analysis: Assist with investment analysis and decision-making.
• Cash Flow Forecasting: Prepare and present cash flow forecasts and related financial reports.
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Team Summary

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) Australia, New Zealand, and South Pacific (AUNZSP) is Visa's advisory division, working with Visa's clients (including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants) on a broad range of key business initiatives including strategy, proposition development, loyalty, operational optimisation, customer engagement and overall business profitability.

VCA is made up of three services lines - Advisory, Data Science and Managed Services, the latter being the execution arm of VCA.  Our Managed Services teams (also known as squads) are embedded on client sites leading long-term engagements and delivering value primarily through implementation and execution services.  We deliver objectives from a shared value agenda but are also closely connected to the broader VCA team, sharing knowledge, and bringing the best of Visa to the client.

We are looking for a dedicated Data Analyst to join client’s team for a 12-month fixed term contract. This position will be supporting the client’s FX and Travel Products teams, focused on enhancing daily experiences for Australians through innovative, simplified, and data-driven strategies. This role will be to provide tailored insights to address business challenges.

Data Analyst Responsibilities:

• Analytical, creative problem solver, capable of working both within a team and independently.

• Passionate about customers and the opportunity to build trust and customer advocacy through data driven insights.

• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and focused on continuous improvement.

• You look beyond the status quo to try new approaches and tools, thereby lifting the overall capability of the team.

• Comfortable with conducting full lifecycle analysis to include requirements, activities and design.

• Strong skills in presenting and communicating data insights to both technical and non-technical team members.

Key competencies

• Solution-mind set: Applying creative problem-solving techniques and championing a client-first approach to customer insights when opportunities and challenges arise to meet specific business objectives

• Active Contributor to Team Success: Actively participating as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals. Makes suggestions for achieving team goals or performing team functions, provides necessary assistance to remove obstacles to help the team accomplish its goals

• Business Translator: Translates complex data challenges into well-defined insights, showcasing the impacts of marketing campaigns and enable the effective use of customer targeting. Ability to ‘think like a customer’ and show empathy to their experience is essential

• High-Impact Communication: Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations, communicating in a focused and compelling way that drives others’ thoughts and actions

• Building Strategic Work Relationships: Developing and using collaborative relationships to achieve work goals. Uses good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions (enhances self-esteem, empathizes, involves, discloses, supports).

Why Work with Us:

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

• Take advantage of working across two organisations

• Collaborative and supportive team culture

• Professional development opportunities to grow your skills and career

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment where your contributions will have a direct impact on our business operations and customer satisfaction. If you are passionate about financial services and eager to drive product success, we would love to hear from you.

Projects you will be a part of:
The role will be based in Sydney, Australia in a hybrid work environment (minimum 3 days in office per week).

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.