Director of FP&A
The Director of FP&A serves as a key finance leader within Aristocrat Interactive, responsible for enterprise-wide planning, performance management, and financial insight. This role involves partnering closely with senior executives to shape business strategy, evaluate investment decisions, and drive accountability for financial performance across the organisation.
Reporting to the Vice President, FP&A, the Director owns the annual planning, forecasting, and reporting processes while building scalable analytics and decision-support capabilities that enable growth and long-term value creation.
- Own the Long Range Plan, Annual Plan, rolling forecasts, and Risk & Opportunity processes.
- Partner with senior leaders to evaluate business performance, critical initiatives, investment opportunities, and resource allocation decisions.
- Support business initiatives including market expansion, M&A evaluation, investment cases, and strategic projects.
- Own consolidated financial reporting and performance analysis for Aristocrat Interactive, providing clear and actionable insights to executive leadership, Group Finance, and Investor Relations.
- Drive weekly and monthly performance reviews, identifying emerging risks, opportunities, and performance trends.
- Ensure strong financial governance, planning processes, and alignment with Group policies, controls, and reporting standards.
- Partner across Finance to improve visibility, consistency, and accountability for financial performance.
- Develop scalable reporting, indicators, and dashboards that support effective decision-making across the organisation.
- Leverage data and analytics to enhance forecasting accuracy, performance insights, and commercial outcomes.
- Drive continuous improvement of planning, reporting, and financial management processes.
- Partner with Finance Systems, BI, and Enterprise Data teams to improve automation, data quality, and self-service reporting capabilities.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team.
- Cultivate a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Build strong relationships across Finance, Operations, Product, Technology, and Commercial teams.
- Champion modern finance capabilities, including data literacy through the use of SQL.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field (required).
- Professional accounting qualification (ACA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent) (preferred).
- MBA or postgraduate qualification (nice-to-have).
- Significant experience in FP&A, commercial finance, corporate finance, or related finance leadership roles (required).
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams (required).
- Strong experience leading planning, forecasting, management reporting, and performance management processes (required).
- Proven track record supporting senior executives within a global, matrix organisation (required).
- Background in technology, digital, gaming, entertainment, software, or similarly fast-paced industries (preferred).
- Exceptional analytical, financial modelling, and problem-solving capabilities (required).
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills (required).
- Ability to influence decisions through data, insight, and commercial judgment (required).
- Highly adaptable and comfortable operating in a fast-moving, evolving environment (required).
- Advanced proficiency with planning, reporting, and business intelligence tools (e.g., TM1, Anaplan, Power BI, D365, SQL) (required).
- Comprehensive pay and benefits package designed to stay competitive in the market, support wellbeing, and recognise contribution.
- Pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact.
- Specific compensation package determined by factors such as skills, experience, qualifications, and location.
- May be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits.
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.