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 Principal, Business Management is responsible for the effective management and operation of the CFO’s office. The role exists to ensure strong governance, coordination, and execution across the Finance function, enabling the CFO and Finance leadership to operate with clarity, discipline, and focus on strategic priorities.

The role brings structure, rhythm, and coherence to how the Finance function is run—overseeing business management activities, leadership forums, communications, and delivery tracking—while reducing operational burden on senior leaders.

Key Responsibilities:

CFO’s Office Management

• Run the day‑to‑day operations of the CFO’s office, acting as a trusted partner and extension of the CFO.

• Provide structure, cadence, and discipline across Finance leadership activities, priorities, and commitments.

• Ensure the CFO’s time, agenda, and focus are used effectively and aligned to strategic priorities.

• Act as a first point of coordination for matters flowing into and out of the CFO’s office.

Financial Management & Reporting

• Board and Committee Papers: Drafting, coordinating and quality‑assuring finance‑related board and committee papers, ensuring content is technically sound, concise, decision‑focused and aligned to board expectations.

• Technical Finance Support: Assisting the CFO on technical finance matters as required, including accounting standards, financial judgments, policy interpretation and emerging regulatory considerations, leveraging specialist input where appropriate.

• Financial Insight and Governance: Applying strong financial acumen to frame issues, options and implications for executive and board consideration, while ensuring high standards of accuracy, governance and risk awareness in all finance materials

Prioritisation & Tracking

• Coordinate Finance‑wide planning, priority setting, and sequencing of major activities and initiatives.

• Maintain oversight of key deliverables, performance milestones, and interdependencies across the Finance function.

• Surface risks, delivery issues, or conflicts early, enabling timely resolution and course correction.

• Support the CFO and Finance leadership team with integrated views of priorities, capacity, and progress.

Domain Communications

• Coordinate Finance leadership communications, ensuring messages are clear, consistent, and well‑timed.

• Support preparation of key internal communications, leadership updates, and briefing materials.

• Act as a connector across Finance leaders to ensure alignment and reduce duplication or fragmentation.

• Manage sensitive information with discretion, judgement, and professionalism.

What You’ll Need   

• Financial Technical Competency.: Strong technical finance capability, including a sound understanding of accounting standards, financial reporting, judgments and controls, with the ability to critically review, challenge and contribute to board‑level finance papers and complex CFO matters.

• Ability to work in a fast paced, changing environment and dealing with ambiguity.

• Experience in senior business management, chief of staff, executive office, or equivalent roles within complex organisations.

• Experience operating at executive level, supporting senior leaders with discretion and sound judgement.

• Strong understanding of governance, executive decision‑making, and organisational rhythm.

• Exposure to Finance or corporate functions within regulated or complex environments is advantageous.

• Demonstrated capacity to work under pressure and with a high degree of complexity.

• Strong decision-making capability.

• Ability to work cross functionally to deliver sound outcomes to a broad range of stakeholders.

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.