The Head of Finance Business Partnering partners with our Money Business Unit, which is responsible for Personal and Auto Loans across Australia and New Zealand. The role provides financial leadership and commercial insight to support performance across the Money division, while also providing dedicated finance support to the newly established Enterprise Growth portfolio.
The role reports to the Group GM FP&A and Investor Relations and partners closely with the EGM Money, the cross functional Money Leadership team and the EGM Enterprise Growth.
The role offers strong exposure to divisional leadership with hands on financial ownership. The role requires someone confident supporting strategic discussions and equally comfortable rolling up their sleeves to build the financial models and analysis that inform them.
This is an opportunity to play a key role in delivering our Bridge to the Future strategy and supporting the development of a new growth engine for Latitude.
About the role
- Own financial performance across the Money division, including monthly P&L reporting, delivering clear insights on performance drivers, risks and opportunities
- Provide financial support to the new Enterprise Growth portfolio as it is established and scaled
- Maintain and enhance profitability models to ensure transparency of product and customer economics
- Lead budgeting, forecasting and long range planning across Money & Enterprise Growth, aligning to enterprise targets
- Act as the dedicated finance partner to the EGM Money and the broader Money Leadership Team providing clear, commercially grounded advice
- Work closely with Finance teams including Treasury, Controllership, Risk Modelling and central FP&A to ensure alignment of financial assumptions, funding considerations and performance reporting
- Support development of strategy, operating model and financial ambition
- Build and maintain robust financial models and business cases for new products, features, partnerships and investment decisions
- Support disciplined capital allocation and post implementation reviews on material initiatives
- Identify emerging risks early and recommend practical mitigation actions
- Balance competing priorities across Finance and the business while leading and developing your direct report, who is primarily responsible for operating expense management and supporting analysis across product performance
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrated experience leading financial performance in a financial services or complex/product based environment
- Strong commercial acumen with experience materially influencing a P&L
- Ability to influence and challenge constructively at executive level
- Advanced financial modelling capability and comfort working in the detail
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver in a high demand environment
- A growth mindset and desire to broaden scope and impact over time
- AI-native - regularly leverages AI tools to enhance decision-making, automate reporting, accelerate content creation, and drive greater efficiency across your team
The role will suit a senior finance leader who is ambitious, commercially curious and motivated to build something new while delivering strong performance in an established business.
What you’ll bring:
- Demonstrated experience leading financial performance in a financial services or complex/product based environment
- Strong commercial acumen with experience materially influencing a P&L
- Ability to influence and challenge constructively at executive level
- Advanced financial modelling capability and comfort working in the detail
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver in a high demand environment
- A growth mindset and desire to broaden scope and impact over time
- AI-native - regularly leverages AI tools to enhance decision-making, automate reporting, accelerate content creation, and drive greater efficiency across your team
The role will suit a senior finance leader who is ambitious, commercially curious and motivated to build something new while delivering strong performance in an established business.
Sometimes the best candidates don’t have 100% of what is listed above, but if you have most and are confident, you’d be a good fit, we’d love to hear from you!
Sound like you? That's a good sign! In return for your energy and ideas, we offer a flexible working environment and great compensation. We always support a safe, healthy, engaging, and productive working environment for all employees and workers, whether that be in your home and office, or a combination of both.
We're Latitude, partners in money Latitude may seem like the new kid on the block, but it's taken us almost a hundred years to become an overnight success. Digital payments, cards, loans are what we offer - but what we really are is a platform that helps people shop and live better. Always living and breathing our values. Take ownership, Win together, Pursue excellence, and Create tomorrow
Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check (including criminal history and bankruptcy check) prior to commencement of employment.
Only open to Australian or New Zealand Permanent Residents or Citizens.
Skills Required
- Demonstrated experience leading financial performance in a financial services environment
- Strong commercial acumen with experience influencing a P&L
- Ability to influence at executive level
- Advanced financial modelling capability
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities
- AI-native with experience in leveraging AI tools
What We Do
Everyone has aspirations, and a goal that needs financing. However, sometimes dealing with money can leave you feeling a little overwhelmed. As Australia’s biggest non-bank lender, we want to change that. And we will. Latitude is an independent digital payments and finance company backed by decades of experience that combines start-up thinking with industry smarts. We believe in transparency over transactions, and lending to all Australians. But the biggest difference is that we want to partner with our customers. We’re the kind of people that commit to helping our customers shop and live better by championing good money habits. We want our customers to get that new car. Update their bathroom. Grow their business. Or, take the kids overseas for the first time and feel good about it. With over 2.4 million customers, Latitude believes in helping people from all walks of life prosper. So, let's work together; let's make great things happen. Latitude. Partners in money.
