Total 3 Education job vacancies in Finance / Banking / Insurance category in Melbourne, Victoria

About OES

Education Services (OES), part of the Seek Growth Fund, is a leader in online education, helping universities elevate student experiences in a digital era. With a proven collaboration process with universities, we have cultivated several transformative and long-lasting partnerships.

Our dynamic global team shares a vision to transform the student experience through innovation and collaboration. OES people are leaders in their respective fields, ensuring best practice strategic thinking is delivered in every element of our partnerships.

When you work at OES, you’re empowered to impact.

The Opportunity

Finance makes it easier for us to win together as a business.  Our team works side-by-side with every other team to help bring commercial thinking into what they do and make decisions that support our strategic and commercial objectives.

The Finance Analyst FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) role is a great opportunity for an aspiring Finance leader to be at the central of activities in guiding, setting and delivering OES Group financial objectives. The primary purpose of this role is to partner with senior managers, executives across Australia, UK and US  and the broader Finance team in coordinating and delivering OES Group’s short term, medium term financial objectives, and monthly forecasting of financial performance and capital investments.

Reporting to an experienced Commercial Finance Manager the key responsibilities of the role would include:

·       Coordinating and delivering the annual budget, medium term plan and monthly forecast for the OES Group’s financial performance and capital investment plan

·       Implementing the agreed capital investment framework across the business

·       Supporting broader stakeholders in formulating business cases

·       Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in current processes

·       Support the automation effort/system implementation for planning and reporting across Finance

·       Undertaking financial modelling/analysis to support planning and forecasting decisions

·       Building deeper commercial knowledge and capability through the business

·       Supporting building a high performing, supportive and collaborative culture

This is a temp to permanent opportunity for the right individual, with an initial 6 month contract. This role will suit an experienced Finance Analyst who looks to broaden experience and career in a progressive team and supportive organisation.

About You

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work in a high performing team and also autonomously manage own workload
• Strong financial modelling skills (advanced MS Excel skills)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to work in a fluid environment and manage competing priorities
• Experience developing long term plans and business cases
• Experience in the education industry or online learning is a plus
• Undergraduate degree (ideally Finance/Accounting/Commerce) and either part or fully qualified CA or CPA
• 3- 5 years experience in Finance (preferably in Financial Planning/Financial Analysis/Commercial finance business partnering role) or first mover from Corporate Finance/Transaction services department of professional services firms

What’s in it for you?

Along with joining a passionate, energetic and highly skilled team, this role will allow you to gain exposure to many growth and development opportunities. OES offers a hybrid, flexible approach to work, where we work 2-3 days from our state-of-the-art Cremorne office, and the rest from home (or wherever you choose!). Breakfast, snacks, table tennis, Nintendo Switch are all available in the office, as well as an in-house massage therapist and weekly staff drinks. Ultimately, you will be joining a values-driven, collaborative business where your creativity and innovation will be nurtured and celebrated.

If you are a self-started with strong desire to build long term value and passion to make a positive impact we would love to hear from you.

About OES

Online Education Services (OES), part of the Seek Growth Fund, is a leader in online education, helping universities elevate student experiences in a digital era. With a proven collaboration process with universities, we have cultivated several transformative and long-lasting partnerships.

Our dynamic global team shares a vision to transform the student experience through innovation and collaboration. OES people are leaders in their respective fields, ensuring best practice strategic thinking is delivered in every element of our partnerships.

When you work at OES, you’re empowered to impact.

The Opportunity

Finance makes it easier for us to win together as a business.  Our team works side-by-side with every other team to help bring commercial thinking into what they do and make decisions that support our strategic and commercial objectives.

The Commercial Finance Business Partner role is a great opportunity for an experienced Finance Business Partner to support growth and delivery of efficiencies in our core Education Partnership business unit across Australia and the UK. The primary purpose of this role is to be the trusted commercial partner for business stakeholders and executive team members in delivering to our strategic partnerships’ objectives.

The role will encompass business partnering, financial modelling/analysis and working collaboratively with the broader business stakeholders and broader finance team on a number of initiatives. The acquired deep knowledge on commercial performance will also support the monthly forecast and annual business planning process.

This is a proactive, commercial and strategic focused role and your day to day will include:

·       Working collaboratively with Marketing, Sales and Student Insights team in optimising decisions across the new student acquisition journey

·       Undertaking financial modelling/analysis to support strategic decisions and new business opportunities (organic or M&A)

·       Supporting broader stakeholders in formulating business cases

·       Working with key stakeholders to create short and longer term financial forecasts for the Education Partnerships business unit which feed into the monthly forecast and annual business planning process

·       Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in current processes

·       Building deeper commercial knowledge and capability through the business

·       Coaching and mentoring other junior members in the team and support building a high performing, supportive and collaborative culture

This role will report to an experienced Commercial Finance Manager and suit a senior Commercial Finance Business Partner/Junior Commercial Manager who looks for a breadth of commercial exposure with a view that they will take on people management over time.

About You

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work in a high performing team and also autonomously manage own workload
• Strong financial and business development modelling skills (intermediate to advanced MS Excel skills)
• Ability to think creatively and apply different problem solving and modelling techniques (creating models from scratch is not required as the business has existing commercial models/ templates) 
• Ability to work in a fluid environment and manage competing priorities
• Experience of developing long terms plans and business cases
• Desire to grow and develop team
• Experience in the Education sector would be viewed positively
• Undergraduate degree (ideally Finance/Accounting/Commerce) and either part or fully qualified CA or CPA
• 3-5 years experience in commercial finance business partnering role

What’s in it for you?

Along with joining a passionate, energetic and highly skilled team, this role will allow you to gain exposure to many growth and development opportunities. OES offers a hybrid, flexible approach to work, where we work 2-3 days from our state-of-the-art Cremorne office, and the rest from home (or wherever you choose!). Breakfast, snacks, table tennis, Nintendo Switch are all available in the office, as well as an in-house massage therapist and weekly staff drinks. Ultimately, you will be joining a values-driven, collaborative business where your creativity and innovation will be nurtured and celebrated.

If you are a self-started with strong desire to build long term value and passion to make a positive impact we would love to hear from you.

Stile is all about two things:

• Helping tomorrow's leaders find a passion for science and scientific thinking, and
• Working with a group of awesome people.

About Stile

We are a global, rapidly growing EdTech company, run by the people who started and own the company. We’re here to build something real and enduring. A company that in years to come we look back on and are proud of what we achieved, and how we achieved it.

Every week over 200,000 students globally, and their teachers, use Stile and we expect this to more than double in the next couple of years in line with our international expansion strategy. At Stile, we create world-class resources for science teachers, whom we call superheroes, (think videos, lesson plans, simulations, activities and more!) that spark excitement and curiosity in every student. At the most basic level, we get kids thinking critically about the world around them.

Have a read of our ‘why’ for more information.

Find out more about how we work here ‘What it’s like working with us and Our Team’

About the role

We’re looking for a Commercial Finance Partner to join the team. This position will join our Finance team, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer.

As the Commercial Finance Partner, it won’t come as a surprise that you’ll be responsible for all things finance. Primarily, you’ll partner with budget owners to optimise their spend to achieve Stile’s strategic objectives and provide the Board and the Executive team with timely and insightful reporting on the key drivers of the business.

How you’ll spend your time

• Driving the budgeting and forecasting process internally. You’ll partner with budget owners to set their budgets and ensure they’re meeting them and help them find innovative ways of reducing expenditure.
• Owning and refining our financial model. You’ll prepare models for various strategic directions, run scenarios for varying assumptions and identify key sensitivities.
• Preparing management financials for the Executive team and for the Board, providing analysis of variances to budget, overview of KPI performance and up to date forecasting.
• Assisting with cash flow management and any associated financing. Support any future capital-raising activities.

A bit about you

• You consider yourself a ‘details’ person, and you love numbers.
• You’ve got a genuine desire to help people manage their financial affairs, with an understanding that it isn’t everyone’s strength like it is yours. You’re happy to help educate, and see it as part of your role.
• You bring numbers to life by applying your knowledge of the organisation and using them to tell a story rather than just a set of numbers on a page.
• Financial accountability touches every part of the organisation. You’re keenly aware of this, and go out of your way to ensure any routine work placed on our busy team is minimised. You look for clever automations, and seek to implement systems and procedures that provide the rigour we need with the least impact across the organisation.
• You are proactive and innovative, responding to change by adapting quickly and continually looking for ways to improve

At Stile we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with all of the points above, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

What’s in it for you?

• Colleagues worth working with. You’ll join an amazing 70-strong team of teachers, scientists, artists, and engineers. We hold ourselves, and each other, to a high standard, and love what we do.
• Working on something that really matters. In partnership with teachers, we’re coaching students to become problem solvers and critical thinkers. We believe that with a strong command of science, tomorrow’s citizens and leaders are set up to sort the misinformation from the facts.
• Support always. Stile is its people, and it’s important we are creating an environment where you’re supported, happy and able to do your best work. We have strong management and feedback frameworks, and a great benefits program check it out here Stile benefits
• A fantastic office environment. When we can, we spend time in the office. It has a huge central kitchen, lots of places to put your feet up to work and even end of trip facilities if you ride in.
• Flexibility. We expect that you work hard, but you’ll have flexible hours and you’re the master of your own schedule.
• Your own professional development. We’re lifelong learners here at Stile. Alongside teaching you everything you need to know to succeed in this role, we provide a generous PD allowance.

Hours and location

This is a full time, permanent role based in Melbourne, Australia, with potential to be part time for the right candidate.
Overall we’re an “in-person” culture (we enjoy working together face to face), but we’re also flexible. There will be opportunity to work from home, or remotely for periods, once you settle in.

Sound interesting?

Great! We want to know more about you, so read the details below then click apply and ensure you provide that cover letter to show you’re great at following the details.

• A cover letter (no more than a page) explaining why you're going to smash this role out of the park. Include a paragraph on which Behaviours of an Effective Stile-ist most resonate with you or which you disagree with and why.
• Your resume
• Address your letter to Jayde Taylor.

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