Project Finance Specialist

The company
This organisation is a well-established, globally connected financial services business with a strong presence in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Known for its stability, scale, and long-term investment in transformation, the business is currently undertaking a major, multi-year change program designed to modernise systems, processes, and ways of working.

With a strong focus on governance, accountability, and data-driven decision-making, this organisation offers a professional, collaborative environment where finance plays a genuine strategic role in shaping outcomes.
The role
An opportunity has arisen for a Project Finance Specialist to provide end-to-end financial management and governance across a large, complex transformation program. This is a highly visible role, partnering closely with Program Directors, the PMO, Workstream Leads, and Accounting to ensure robust financial control, insight, and decision support.

You will take ownership of program-wide budgeting and forecasting frameworks, deliver executive-ready financial reporting, and act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across the program.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining standardised budgeting and forecasting models, including resources, vendors, and contingencies
• Owning the monthly finance cycle, including actuals validation, accruals, prepayments, reclasses, and cut-off accuracy
• Producing rolling 12-18 month forecasts with scenario and sensitivity analysis
• Delivering detailed variance analysis across workstreams, vendors, resource types, and capex/opex
• Establishing data quality controls, reconciliations, and version management as the single source of truth
• Partnering with accounting teams to ensure accurate capitalisation, amortisation schedules, and compliance with policy
• Supporting business case development, including NPV, IRR, payback, and sensitivity analysis
• Producing a monthly Program Finance Pack with clear insights, trends, risks, opportunities, and decision points
• Building scenario models to assess schedule changes, scope shifts, vendor rate changes, and funding constraints
• Providing on-demand financial analysis to senior program stakeholders
• Contributing to continuous process improvement initiatives
• Uplifting project finance capability across delivery teams through training and guidance

Ideal skills and experience

• 3-5+ years' experience in project or program finance, or FP&A supporting large-scale, complex transformation initiatives
• Proven experience building and embedding finance frameworks for multi-year programs
• Strong understanding of capex/opex, capitalisation rules, cost allocation, and accrual accounting
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability, including scenario and sensitivity analysis
• Highly developed ability to translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights
• Confident stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and partner at a senior level
• Strong attention to detail, ownership mindset, and a continuous improvement approach
• Experience working cross-functionally with PMO, delivery teams, and accounting functions

What's in it for you

• Exposure to a high-profile, enterprise-wide transformation program
• A genuinely strategic finance role with strong senior stakeholder visibility
• Opportunity to shape governance, reporting, and finance capability from the ground up
• Stable, well-resourced organisation with long-term transformation investment
• Collaborative culture that values finance as a strategic partner
• Flexible working arrangements and a supportive professional environment