Finance Business Partner

Posted 21 Days Ago
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Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Finance Business Partner responsible for management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial modeling, and performance insights. The role partners with business leaders, identifies risks and improvement opportunities, enhances reporting frameworks, and drives continuous improvement across finance processes. It requires strong stakeholder management, analytical and communication skills, advanced Excel and Power Query capabilities, and experience with Power BI. Professional services experience is preferred.
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We’re BDO, a global professional services firm connected to local markets. Our people work together to provide specialist expertise, helping businesses achieve their goals.

We inspire others, to go further. We create together, to reach higher. We build trust, to lead purposefully.

Whether you're building your future or starting your career with us, you won’t do it alone. From creating solutions for our clients to building careers for our people, we shape what matters, and that’s where you come in.

About the Role

Join our Finance team as a Finance Business Partner and play a key role in driving financial performance across a dynamic and growing professional services organisation. This is an opportunity to move beyond the numbers and become a trusted advisor, partnering with business leaders to provide insightful analysis, meaningful reporting, and strategic financial guidance.

Working closely with stakeholders across the organisation, you'll help shape business decisions through robust financial planning, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and data-driven insights. You'll identify opportunities for improvement, enhance reporting frameworks, and contribute to the ongoing development of our business partnering capability.

In this role, you will:

  • Prepare and analyse management accounts, delivering actionable insights to improve financial performance.
  • Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand priorities and provide financial guidance and support.
  • Lead budgeting and forecasting activities, including monitoring performance and conducting variance analysis.
  • Develop and maintain financial models to support strategic decision-making.
  • Analyse financial and operational data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and process improvements.
  • Enhance reporting capabilities by developing meaningful and timely financial reporting frameworks.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across reporting, analysis, and financial processes.
  • Build strong, trusted relationships through proactive engagement and collaboration.
  • Work closely with Finance leadership to strengthen and evolve the Finance Business Partnering function.
     

About You

You're a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys building relationships and influencing outcomes through data and insight. You thrive in a collaborative environment, are naturally curious, and have a passion for helping businesses make informed decisions.

You'll bring a combination of technical expertise, business partnering experience, and strong stakeholder management skills, allowing you to confidently engage with leaders across all levels of the organisation.

To be successful, you'll have:

  • A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
  • CA, CPA or CIMA qualification (or equivalent).
  • At least five years' experience in management accounting, financial analysis, or a similar business partnering role.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to translate complex information into practical recommendations.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to influence and collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders.
  • The ability to prioritise effectively and thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
  • Intermediate to advanced Excel skills, including experience with Power Query.
  • Experience with Power BI, or a genuine interest in developing your reporting and analytics capabilities.
  • Professional services experience will be highly regarded.

Most importantly, you'll bring a proactive mindset, a passion for continuous improvement, and the ability to build strong partnerships that help drive business success.

Why BDO?

Working for BDO you will be part of a growing and market leading professional services firm.
Our national and global footprint provides our people with opportunities to work on interesting client engagements, across diverse industry sectors and services.
Our open and collaborative culture ensures access to Partners and professional mentors, to guide and accelerate your professional career, across a wide array of career pathways.
We provide our people with various health and wellbeing, social, financial, and professional development benefits to help realise what’s possible.

Participate in fitness challenges or take advantage of exclusive discounts to corporate health insurance, gym memberships and wellness facilities via our BWell program. Access benefits such as travel perks, retail discounts, employee referral rewards, study, and professional development support.

Our leave options cater to the unique needs of our people; and include enhanced family support, cultural and religious leave, and options to purchase additional leave. You can also give back and get involved in community initiatives via our BCaring program.

With a strong focus on learning and growth, we provide on the job training and formal development programs to help you succeed in your role and develop your skills and experience.
Our culture is underpinned by our core values (One, Bold, Human, Heart and Strive).

We are proud to be recognised as an Inclusive Employer for 2025-2026 by Diversity Council of Australia and a  2024-2025 Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

BDO is committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment practices. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview process, we encourage you to contact our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]

Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline
  • CA, CPA, CIMA, or equivalent qualification
  • At least five years of experience in management accounting, financial analysis, or a similar business partnering role
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders
  • Ability to prioritize effectively and thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment
  • Intermediate to advanced Excel skills, including Power Query experience
  • Experience with Power BI or genuine interest in developing reporting and analytics capabilities
  • Professional services experience
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The Company
HQ: Brussels
2,442 Employees

What We Do

BDO is a trusted adviser to clients seeking audit, tax and advisory services. As one of the world’s leading audit and accounting organisations, we have clients of all types and sizes from large corporate organisations to private businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals across an array of industry sectors. At BDO, we are guided by our values that are the foundation of what we deliver: IDEAS | PEOPLE | TRUST. This is about delivering ideas and advice that create value; quality-driven people who are motivated by providing exceptional client service; and being trusted to get the job done. Talk to us today.

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