Financial Management Chapter Lead (Finance Manager Level)

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Who We Are

We're Australia's leading telecommunications and technology company. With a global presence in more than 22 countries, we have a strong global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We're all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network.

This includes making Telstra the place you want to work.

Strategy & Finance (S&F) Financial Management Chapter

The teams across the S&F Financial Management Chapter provide a wide range of financial management services that guide and empower our business. We have several key relationships supporting Telstra business operations to corporate leadership, our customers, our people and shareholders.

Focus of the Role

• As a Financial Management Chapter Lead, your role is two-fold where you will combine your deep expertise in the Finance segment with people leadership. Through your passion for leadership you connect, engage, and develop your chapter members so they deliver value aligned to Telstra’s strategic roadmap.
• Through your mission initiative work, you will deliver financial management expertise and analysis to support the Telstra’s financial strategic direction and enable the monitoring, tracking, and reporting on financial performance (including profitability, expense and cash) of Telstra and its functional units.
• Important note: the role will be based in our office in Makati City, Metro Manila and will be in a HYBRID working environment.

What We Offer

• Flex appeal: choose where, when and how you work
• Performance-related pay
• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
• Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your loved ones.

What You’ll Do

This is how you'll bring the purpose of your role to life:

Chapter Lead

• Modelling a culture of collaboration and continuous learning to support development of domain and interpersonal capability within the Chapter.
• Coaching and developing chapter members within Financial Management to enable them to deliver high quality financial and commercial analysis that strategically impacts objectives and initiatives, enabling accurate modelling, due diligence, risk assessment and commercial decision making, by providing support and feedback along the way.
• Building strong, trusting relationships within teams that enable a high performing team culture aligned to living our values
• Providing clarity on performance, behavioural goals and expectations to your chapter team to ensure that they can contribute to both mission and chapter activity
• Actively maintaining a talent pipeline for the chapter to ensure that workforce strategy objectives are achieved.
• Managing resource allocation, including recruitment and/or selection, to ensure capability required is available and resourcing issues are mitigated, in collaboration with Group Owners.
• Applying commercial acumen to ensure chapter and resourcing priorities are achieved within allocated budget targets.
• Collaborating with Chapter Area Lead and other Chapter Leads to determine and implement tools/common practices to be used by Chapter Members  
• Providing clarity to chapter members on current and future capability requirements to enable them to own and drive their development so they can continually grow and add value in different ways.
• Using timely feedback conversations to inspire chapter member performance and the achievement of challenging goals
• Acting as a champion and exemplifying the ways of working mindsets and practices for all teams in which you participate
• Identifying opportunities to innovate and optimise financial management practices/approaches to improve efficiency and effectiveness

Mission/Initiative Work

• Support and liaise between business stakeholders & IT project teams
• Experience in financial analysis, forecasting and business partnering
• Support month end activities for TEI (Telstra Enterprise International) including audit compliance  
• Wade into the complexity and see problems as opportunities

About You

To be successful in the role, you should have:

• CA or CPA fully qualified
• Solid hands-on experience on SAP (i.e., system implementation)
• Experienced in the Agile Ways of Working
• Proven experience in Finance Management
• Extensive experience in Commercial Accounting and Forecasting with proven expertise in Technical and Statutory accounting
• Experience across P&L, balance sheet and cash flow (IRS15/16 knowledge is preferred)
• People Management – strong leadership skills with a genuine commitment to building capabilities
• Excellent coaching skills to develop and empower team members to deliver exceptional service by conducting regular formal and informal coaching sessions
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills with high attention to details
• Proven demonstration of a growth mindset with tenacity for problem solving and willingness to seek information and appropriately challenge status quo
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills which can be applied to a range of different stakeholders, including external auditors
• Strong stakeholder management, proactive and curious, organised, keen eye for detail, continuous improvement mindset, proven ability to curate the story behind the numbers, systematic and process orientated, skilled in Excel and PowerPoint
• Passion for numbers and improving financial performance

When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and abilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive. 

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.