Director, Portfolio Planning & Capital Allocation
Aristocrat seeks a strategic and commercially minded finance leader for its Development & Build Finance team. As Director of Portfolio Planning & Capital Allocation, this individual will influence investment decisions, prioritise capital, guide portfolio strategy, and measure success across Aristocrat's multi-billion-dollar global business.
This role offers a unique opportunity to help shape Aristocrat's strategic direction by ensuring investments are aligned to the initiatives that create the greatest long-term value for the organisation. This highly visible position sits at the intersection of finance, strategy, governance, and executive decision-making.
The role involves shaping Aristocrat's capital allocation framework, investment governance processes, and strategic decision-making across Product, Technology, Studios, Finance, and enterprise functions. Partnering closely with senior leaders across the organisation, the individual will evaluate cases, assess investment opportunities, and guide how the company allocates capital across innovation, technology, talent, and growth. The work will directly influence portfolio priorities, investment governance, resource allocation, and long-term business performance across the enterprise.
- Support the development and ongoing evolution of Aristocrat's capital allocation framework.
- Drive alignment between capital allocation priorities, product roadmaps, investment proposals, and business outcomes.
- Own and direct investment governance processes to ensure resources are passionate about the highest-return opportunities.
- Develop portfolio-level insights that inform executive, ESC, and Board decision-making.
- Accountability for multi-year portfolio strategy and policy.
- Lead a team responsible for developing arguments, investment analysis, scenario modeling, and strategic evaluations across Product, Technology, Studios, Finance, and enterprise functions.
- Deliver financial and strategic counsel on important initiatives, new product investments, organizational changes, acquisitions, and transformation programs.
- Evaluate trade-offs between contending opportunities and support prioritization decisions.
- Translate complex financial and strategic questions into clear options, trade-offs, and decisions for senior leaders.
- Assume responsibility for capital allocation, investment outcomes, and portfolio reporting directed at the Executive Leadership Team, ESC, and Board audiences.
- Build clear, compelling narratives that connect investment choices to strategic outcomes and measurable value creation.
- Build decision-focused reporting that improves transparency, accountability, and follow-through across the investment lifecycle.
- Help establish a robust rhythm of business around investment reviews, portfolio health, and strategic performance measurement.
- Partner with business leaders to track outcomes against investment commitments.
- Drive continuous improvement in decision quality, governance, and investment accountability.
- Work closely with Product, Technology, Business Divisions, Finance, Strategy, Corporate Development, and Chief of Staff teams across Aristocrat.
- Influence outcomes through clear analysis, strong collaboration, good judgment, and practical recommendations.
- 10+ years of experience in FP&A, strategy, investment analysis, consulting, corporate finance, portfolio management, or decision support roles (required).
- Demonstrated experience developing investment frameworks, and executive-level recommendations (required).
- Strong commercial foresight with the ability to balance strategic objectives and financial outcomes (required).
- Experience presenting to senior executives and/or Boards (required).
- Advanced financial modeling, scenario analysis, and portfolio management capabilities (required).
- Robust benefits package.
- Global career opportunities.
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.