Day to day you will:

• Manage campaign set up, technical implementation and optimisation of digital advertising campaigns
• Collectively prioritise campaign launches across your list of dedicated sales teams, ensuring a smooth go live process that is in-line with our Service Level Agreements
• Implement optimisation tactics as required throughout the lifetime of the campaign to maximise delivery and revenue
• Make calculated decisions in adjusting inventory and data mixology to achieve campaign objectives and maximise revenue
• Collaborate with Nines digital sales teams to resolve technical or delivery issues while ensuring campaign enquiries are reviewed and actioned in a timely manner
• Run weekly ‘In Progress’ meetings with the Sales team, proactively guiding go-live schedules, campaign prioritisation, monitoring of campaign performance and assessment if they are pacing to hit their delivery goals
• Provide end of campaign reporting insights, data analysis and recommendations to promote revenue growth

Being part of our Nine Sales team means you will benefit from:

• Competitive Sales Incentive Scheme that rewards and recognises performance & success! Opportunity to build your skills by completing Sales Academy – our bespoke training and development program for Sales. 
• Every day is flexible - we believe in the future of work where our work is led by task and purpose. Complimentary subscriptions to all our platforms including Sydney Morning Herald, AFR, The Age, Brisbane Times and WA today. 
• Brand new offices in the heart of North Sydney – within our building are our news and filming studios where all the action happens - plus views of the Harbour!
• Exclusive invitations to Nine Events – whether you are a fan of Ninja Warrior or the NRL, it could be you sitting in the audience!

We are looking for a Finance Manager to join our Finance team to support the Corporate Functions to help achieve their financial goals over various time frames.

What this role is about?

The role serves as the principal contact between the Corporate Functions and the central Group Finance function, facilitating effective communication and ensuring alignment between the two.

Here's more of what you’ll work on:

Reporting (Month, HY and FY)

• Performance Monitoring: Review and analyse monthly financial activities for the Corporate Functions, including detailed assessments of month-to-date (MTD) and year-to-date (YTD) performance.
• Dashboard Reporting: Prepare and present monthly performance dashboards, highlighting key metrics, trends, and variances. Ensure reports are clear, accurate, and provide actionable insights.
• Accruals & adjustments: Review and approve accruals or adjustments to ensure that financial statements reflect the true economic condition.
• Insights: Provide meaningful insights and recommendations based on financial analysis to drive better business performance.

Decision Support

• Partner the Corporate Functions leadership team with financial decision-making by providing relevant data, analysis, and recommendations.
• Build and maintain financial models, e.g. FTE resource model, scenario and sensitivity analysis, and other ad-hoc financial analytical activities as required.
• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives within the Business Unit Finance team. Focus on enhancing productivity, efficiency, and the overall effectiveness of financial processes.

Forecasting & Budgeting

• Review budget/forecast models for the BU, ensuring they reflect all financial aspects including revenue, expenses, and capital expenditures.
• Ensure driver-based assumptions are signed-off by the BU, and offer insights into the status of budget submissions, highlighting areas of opportunities and risks.
• Provide the Corporate Functions with reporting on forecast submissions, including status against target. Offer analysis and insight to support the forecast, helping stakeholders understand the implications of forecasted results.

Team Lead Functions

• Assist and provide guidance to the Finance Business Partner with day-to-day activities
• Review and provide oversight of the team’s workflow and new initiatives.
• Process improvement of team procedures and functions

The 9Predict data science team develops, builds and delivers data science products to provide audience forecasting and solutions to business problems. Key responsibilities include gathering and analyzing data, developing and implementing data science models, and communicating findings to stakeholders. We push the envelope in what is possible and work on new and novel implementations of data science techniques.

Major area of focus for the team is forecasting audiences across all of Nine’s assets (Metro TV, Regional TV, 9NOW and other channels) to more effectively monetise & yield manage commercial ad inventory.

Role Responsibilities:

• Analyse large and complex data sets to uncover insights and trends.
• Develop predictive models and algorithms.
• Collaborate with other data scientists and analysts to design and implement innovative solutions that support business objectives.
• Implement and maintain data pipelines and workflows.
• Conduct data cleaning, transformation, and validation.
• Create and present clear and concise reports, visualisations, and dashboards to communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Use data visualisation tools to effectively convey complex data insights to non-technical audiences.

Employee Responsibilities:

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in data science and media analytics.
• Participate in training and professional development opportunities to enhance skills and knowledge.
• Contribute to a positive and collaborative team culture.
• Share knowledge and insights with team members.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and ethical guidelines in all data-related activities. 

The Commercial Data Team is responsible for the delivery of Nine’s data driven commercial products that currently supports over 50% of Nine’s digital advertising revenue across 9Now, Publishing and Audio assets. The team is responsible for Nine’s data partners (Equifax, Azira, Mastercard and Coles 360), our onboarding/data clean room partners (Adobe, Salesforce, Tealium, Liveramp, Karlsgate and DataCo), our contextual & brand safety vendor Mantis plus Dynamic Ads vendors Adgreetz. The team also manages Nine’s Commercial Data Insights Platform – Salesforce Datorama. The team also leverages Adobe Audience Manager and Audience Experience Platform to support Nine’s segmentation and targeting strategy.

The Commercial Data team is Nine’s market leading data team who provides consulting services to both internal and external stakeholders. They have led the market in product innovation across digital data for the last 9 years. You will be joining a high performing team of digital data subject matter experts.

This role provides an entry to the evolving digital data world. Your skills and capabilities will provide support to the team but also allow you to develop your data skills with a highly respected market leading data team in media. Nine is an employer of choice in the digital data world. 

Day to day you will:

• Collecting & analyse large amount data from ambiguous & various sources (ensuring the quality & accuracy of the data)
• Creating regular reports in addition to maintaining & improving the reports and dashboards (using various platforms such as Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, Datorama and Tableau)
• Provide ad-hoc reports, analysis and insights as needed to stakeholders
• Create, maintain and improve on documentations
• Leverage and develop a deep understanding of the Nine’s Commercial Data Products across Insights, Activation, Targeting and Measurement
• Assist Measurement & Insights Manager with various tasks such as ad-hoc reporting, analyses, forecasting, automation of reporting and attribution data of exposed users across the Commercial Data suite 
• Assist the wider Commercial Data team to deliver on the product pipeline and revenue commitments
• Actively participating in a collaborative team environment based on supportiveness, development, knowledge sharing and effective communication
• Building and sustaining effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, as well as representing the team in external forums
• Support internal training as well as presenting insights across the sales team and agency partners

• Financial Services - Join an Award-Winning Superannuation Fund Provider
• Execute the Risk Management Framework within the Service Model Transformation 
• 12 Month Fixed Term Contract 
• Sydney Located - Hybrid Working (Blend of Sydney CBD Office and Home) 

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members, with around $86 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

About the Job 

The primary purpose of this role is to execute Rest risk management framework within the Service Model Transformation Program. This role involves identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks that might impact the successful delivery and completion of program, and manage risks introduced into the business as a result of the transformation.

The individual will report to the Head of First Line Risk, and work closely with the Portfolio Director, project managers and key business and project stakeholders to ensure that all SMT project streams are executed with a clear understanding of potential risks and that appropriate risk responses are integrated into project planning and execution.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Performing 1st Line of Defence risk project delivery and delivered risk assessment on all project streams. This will includes ensuring the project adhered to the Risk Management Framework.
• Develop risk response strategies to manage identified risks effectively.
• Performing risk assessment across the all the project streams, aggregation of all the projects risks and determining the overall impact to the SMT program risk profile.
• Work closely with project managers to integrate risk management into the project lifecycle, and oversee maintenance of the RAID register.
• Provide regular reports to the Portfolio Steering Committee on the status of the project risks and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies. This will include escalation of significant risk issues promptly.
• Ensure the project risk management activities comply with Rest policies and frameworks and regulatory requirements.