Senior Finance Analyst - Data Analytics

Senior Finance Analyst – Data and Reporting

Working at Transurban is different; it’s a place where you can see the benefits of your work play out in real life, every day. We create city-sized solutions—building and operating safer, smarter, and more sustainable roads—to solve pressing transport challenges that are slowing cities down.

About the role

We’re seeking a Senior Finance Analyst – Data and Reporting to support Transurban’s Finance, Investor and Corporate Services by providing data analytics, visualisations, reporting, and insights. This role is crucial for supporting business decision-making and improving analysis and reporting capabilities across the organisation.

You’ll join an innovative team who are collaborative and thrive in a fast-paced, Agile environment.

As our Senior Finance Analyst, you’ll contribute to lasting and positive changes that shape the future of our cities and communities. It’s meaningful, challenging, and exciting work.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Play a key role in supporting the Manager, Traffic, Revenue and Data Analytics in leading the data analytic function for Transurban Finance.
• Challenge existing processes and continually assess systems and processes for simplification and optimisation through stakeholder engagement.
• Lead automation and self-service reporting initiatives to enhance analytical support, streamline processes, and empower stakeholders with real-time data access.
• Create and maintain process and procedures documentation.
• Perform data analysis and trend identification to provide insights into revenue and cost improvements.
• Support the introduction of data analytics for revenue and cost improvements.
• Create data models and trends to help the business understand their revenue and cost drivers.
• Support business initiatives through data analysis, such as before/after comparisons.
• Seek feedback and evaluate improvement opportunities in the provision of data analytics.
• Analyse, interpret, and communicate the results of data analysis activities.
• Generate insights and recommendations from the analysis, proactively identifying opportunities for business growth and operational improvements.
• Use storytelling and compelling visualisation techniques to convey insights in a manner that is easily understood by finance and business stakeholders.
• Be considered an expert of Finance Data within the organisation.
• Provide advice and guidance to others in relation to the correct use of data.

This role will suit someone with a curious mind and transferrable skills and experiences, including:

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant technical field.
• Proven experience in solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches.
• Proven experience in manipulating and analysing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources.
• A strong passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data.
• A flexible analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision.
• Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner.
• Ability to bridge communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience with high-volume relational databases and SQL.
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication and presentation skills.
• Stakeholder management experience, ideally working across all levels of leadership.
• Ability to communicate complex findings and ideas in plain language.
• Experience using data science, visualisation, and ETL tools such as Tableau, R Studio, Snowflake, SSIS or equivalents is an advantage.
• Knowledge of statistics and the safe interpretation of data – including concepts like bias, statistical reliability, and extrapolation is an advantage.
• Experience working with large data sets is an advantage.

If you meet some of these requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application.

With a career at Transurban, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits, including:

• A range of flexible working and leave options, including the option to purchase an additional six weeks of leave each year.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave (regardless of gender or carer status), with no waiting period, with Superannuation paid during unpaid leave as well.
• Learning and development opportunities to support your career interests.
• Health and wellbeing support—access to Headspace and our EAP program, wellness facilities, and more.
• Share offers and insurance benefits.
• Social activities, community give-back programs, and paid volunteer days.
• Work in an ASX-listed company with a growing market.

We offer a range of flexible working and leave options, so you can balance your work and life commitments and interests. Have a conversation with us about how this could work for you.

We embrace diversity with a foundation of safety, wellbeing, and inclusion; where everyone belongs. We treat everyone with fairness, consideration, and respect, regardless of gender, gender identity, marital or family status, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, religious beliefs, cultural or socio-economic background, perspective, and experience – whether they work for us or not. We want to ensure everyone feels comfortable and safe to express ideas, questions, and concerns.

We strongly encourage applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people living with disability. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please contact us on careers@transurban.com.

Ready to help us keep cities moving? Apply today.

 

Job Type:

Permanent

Closing Date:

01-Jan-2025 0:00

Please note: The closing date reflects the time zone of the Primary Location for this job posting.

Primary Location:

Melbourne CBD & Inner Suburbs Melbourne VIC