Location: Brisbane
Tenure: 12-month fixed term contract (with potential for extension)
About the role: Join Aurizon’s CFO & Strategy division as a Finance Lead – Corporate & Support, where you’ll play a pivotal role in partnering with the business to drive strategic financial outcomes across the Group.
Reporting to the Finance Manager – Corporate, Support & Capital, you’ll lead a small team and work closely with senior stakeholders across the centralised business units to deliver accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting. You’ll champion continuous improvement, embed best-practice processes and deliver insights that drive performance within a complex ASX-listed environment.
Key responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team to deliver high-quality, timely financial partnering and reporting.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the quality and effectiveness of finance partnering services provided to key stakeholders.
- Provide financial oversight and advice to support planning, reporting and budgeting including multi-year budget and periodic forecasts.
- Translate complex financial data into actionable insights for non-financial stakeholders.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to provide decision support, financial analysis, and insights.
About you
You’ll bring a strong foundation in finance partnering and proven leadership capability, ideally gained in a complex corporate environment. You thrive on problem-solving, collaborating across teams, and lifting the performance and capability of those around you.
We’re looking for someone with:
- Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline (mandatory).
- CPA or CA qualification (mandatory).
- Minimum 5 years’ multidiscipline finance experience including leading a team of similar size.
- Financial literacy, modelling and analytical skills to provide highly relevant insights into business performance.
- Extensive knowledge of accounting and budgetary processes and procedures, particularly in relation to financial systems and business processes for a large organisation.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
What we offer you:
At Aurizon, we support the development and growth of our employees. With a national portfolio of operations, we offer long-term and exciting career opportunities.
Some of our benefits include:
- Development and growth opportunities.
- Access to mentoring and development programs.
- Discounts on selected health insurance funds, personal travel, gyms, vehicles and retail brands.
- Parental leave program and super booster.
About Aurizon.
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Aurizon is Australia’s largest rail freight operator and a top 100 ASX company. Each year, we deliver more than 250 million tonnes of Australian commodities right across the country. Aurizon is crucial to the Australian economy, connecting miners, primary producers and industry with international and domestic markets.
Look to Aurizon for a diverse and collaborative culture.
At Aurizon, we are proud of our diverse, collaborative, creative and high-performance culture. We celebrate the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic, caring, and inclusive work environment.
To learn about us and our company values, please visit www.aurizon.com.au/careers
