Total 18 Director/C-Level regional recruitment lead job vacancies in Option to work from Ringwood (Melb), Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Tasmania

An internal opportunity within our Finance team has created an exciting opening for a Regional Finance Director to join a progressive organisation with a strong, people-focused culture in Sydney.

In this senior leadership role, you will leverage your extensive finance expertise and proven ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders to drive financial performance, enhance commercial outcomes, and support strategic decision-making across the region.

As the Regional Finance Director, you will be responsible for leading the regional finance team, fostering career development and mentoring team members, while serving as the key business partner for regional leadership. Your role will focus on delivering project financial plans, improving commercial results and driving financial acumen across all phases of the project lifecycle.

Reporting directly to the ANZ Finance Director, you will also play a pivotal role in collaborating with operations and senior leadership to ensure the successful delivery of financial and business goals.

This is a rare opportunity to lead from the front, shape financial strategy and inspire a high-performing team in a dynamic and innovative organisation.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Collaborate with regional leadership to influence bid and pricing strategies, ensuring profitability and cash flow optimization.
• Lead the monthly close process, ensuring the timely and accurate preparation of financial reporting.
• Oversee revenue recognition in line with company policies and analyse overhead expenditures for the region.
• Develop and execute financial strategies that align with AECOM’s regional and global objectives.
• Manage financial risks by anticipating challenges, analysing economic and commercial conditions and taking preventive measures.
• Ensure full SOX compliance, support annual audits, and maintain strong internal controls to protect the organization’s financial integrity.
• Provide fact-based commercial insights, leveraging data from internal and external sources to guide strategic business decisions.

The Director will be an integral part of our Visa Acceptance and Cybersource Solutions team supporting key client deliverables to ensure strong sales strategy and delivery for key client initiatives. This role is a field sales position within our growing Australia and New Zealand team that will help drive the expansion of Visa Value Added Services business. This role is responsible for targeting retailers, acquirers, and service providers as well as other companies accepting payments to add them to our growing digital products portfolio. The Sales Director will work closely with other Visa teams to offer visa products for checkout, processing, analytics, fraud, security, and other digital solutions to the Australian and New Zealand market. The ideal candidate is a motivated self-starter with strong payment technical skills that can work independently in a fast paced, ambiguous environment with limited supervision. He or she must be a fast learner who can quickly absorb the nuances of complex, varied payment offerings.  

• Lead a team to identify prospects, manage the sales process, and close new businesses.
• Develop and lead strategic initiatives in AUNZ to become the leading processor/gateway across card present, ecommerce and omnichannel opportunities.
• Act as a customer advocate - Conduct regular strategy reviews with global product teams to help shape the roadmap.
• Develop targeted product and industry use-cases based on market needs.
• Partner with teams to drive go-to-market strategies for specific prospects and products.
• Identify emerging markets, prospects, and manage the sales process including sales campaigns.
• Enhance partnerships to develop new value propositions.
• Lead RFPs and RFIs for key prospects.
• Be the face of Visa Acceptance and Cybersource in the external market for our Visa Acceptance and Cybersource Solutions.
• Collaborate with other business units such as the Digital Partnerships team to expand the ecosystem.
• Drive reseller volumes through the Acquirer Acceleration Program.
• Maintain and share knowledge of existing and new acceptance products with broader Visa team.

This role will have three core responsibilities:

Client Program Delivery:

- Lead and oversee multi skilled teams to deliver projects that produce high quality outcome for clients

- Lead recruitment of resources for Managed Services projects including working with third party suppliers

-         Managing stakeholders in a complex environment and at senior levels across the client and Visa

-        Ability to bring subject matter expertise across diverse range of product and customer lifecycle strategies (i.e. portfolio migration, early month on book, acquisition, customer lifecycle and digital communications etc.)

-         Ability to guide Delivery Leads through their responsibility for the overall client’s program delivery end to end

-         A portion of this role’s time may be embedded with Visa’s clients to support Delivery Leads, building team culture, driving performance and delivery to the highest standards.

Business Development:

-        Build strong relationships with clients in order to deeply understand their business and challenges

-         Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to identify opportunities for Portfolio Optimisation Managed Services and assist develop compelling proposals to meet targets

-         Liaise with the Visa Consulting and Analytics Client Leads and cross functional teams to identify delivery resources required and create recommendations on resource model to deploy

-         Develop pricing proposals for projects.

Internal Program Management:

-         Provide inspirational leadership by building, developing, and managing a high performing and diverse team, which differentiates through innovation, speed, pace, diversity of thought and employee engagement

-         Help to develop our Managed Services service lines focused on Portfolio Optimisation which will become a template for our expansion in Australia and across Asia Pacific

-         Document processes, key learnings and best practices in artefacts that can be reused across the team

-         Identify and solve both client and internal challenges to help us execute efficiently and effectively

-         Lead initiatives that have program wide or market wide benefits (i.e., new suppliers’ identification and onboarding).

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.