Job Description

At AustralianSuper, we truly care about our colleagues. We know work and life are intertwined. That’s why we support the diverse needs of everyone and have policies that enable us all to thrive and be truly flexible. We ensure diversity is celebrated for the opportunity it provides us all to learn and grow and deliver better outcomes for members. We are dedicated to building a high-performance environment underpinned by a strong risk culture, ensuring we deliver the best outcomes for our members.

Your New Role 

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Head of Finance, Performance and Business Partnering is accountable for leading the enterprise performance, the finance business partnering agenda across the organisation, while also owning the Finance data and analytics strategy and the delivery of major finance transformation initiatives.

The role provides overarching leadership, alignment, and strategic direction across business units, ensuring Finance operates as a cohesive, high‑impact function that enables strong decision‑making, delivery of strategic priorities, and sustainable performance. It will also ensure high‑quality financial insight, strong commercial discipline, and effective data driven decision support to the Executive, Board and senior leaders, while developing a high‑performing team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the enterprise performance and finance business partnering model across all business units.

• Act as the single point of accountability for aligning performance outcomes, priorities, and trade‑offs across business units.

• Ensure consistent, high‑quality financial insights that support strategic, commercial, and investment decision‑making.

• Provide strategic leadership to the Finance Business Partnering function, setting clear direction, standards and expectations to be driven out across the Domains.

• Challenge assumptions and scenarios to ensure plans are robust, sustainable and aligned to strategic priorities.

• Provide clear insights into long‑term financial implications, trade‑offs and opportunities.

• Own the end‑to‑end Finance data and analytics strategy across the organisation.

• Drive improvements in the speed, quality, consistency, and accessibility of financial data and insights.

• Motivate and inspire the team by demonstrating commitment to the Fund’s values, decision pillars and leadership principles

• Ensure our Members First culture is consistently and firmly embedded across the team

• Lead and develop senior Finance leaders across business units, fostering strong collaboration, capability uplift, and succession.

What You’ll Need   

• Extensive experience in senior finance leadership roles within complex, regulated financial services environments.

• Demonstrated success leading enterprise‑wide finance partnering, planning and performance functions.

• Strong strategic, commercial and analytical capability, with the ability to translate complexity into clear insights.

• Proven ability to influence and advise at Executive and Board level.

• Strong people leadership experience, including leading senior leaders and building high‑performing teams

• Tertiary qualifications in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline.

• CA / CPA (or equivalent).

Life at AustralianSuper 

AustralianSuper is committed to colleague development, and we support our people with ongoing learning, coaching and training, as well as career opportunities across our expanding global organisation. We offer generous leave entitlements and promote a blended working environment in which all roles can flex, and we’re happy to discuss what this looks like for you. 

We cultivate a workplace that champions safety, respect, inclusiveness and diversity.  We are committed to supporting our diverse workforce in a way that is inclusive and embraces diversity in all its forms. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let our recruitment team know. 

What’s Next 

Apply now, if you share our values of Energy, Integrity, Generosity of Spirit and Excellent Outcomes and would like the opportunity to work in a challenging, growing and rapidly evolving team to deliver outstanding results. 

AustralianSuper uses AI to review resumes and conduct initial phone interviews. This involves processing your resume, cover letter, and voice recording in Australia and the USA to help assess your suitability for the applied role. When invited to an AI phone screening, you may opt for a traditional phone screening instead. For information on how we handle your personal data, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy.

https://www.australiansuper.com/careers/candidate-privacy-notice  

Australian or New Zealand citizenship or Australian permanent residency status is required.  

Agencies please note: this vacancy is being managed directly by AustralianSuper’s Talent Acquisition team. We will contact our preferred agency partners should we require additional support. Thank you.