Senior Analyst, Enterprise D&D Planning
Aristocrat is looking for a highly organised and analytically strong finance professional to join the Development and Design Finance group as a Senior Analyst, Enterprise D&D Planning. This role is pivotal in bringing greater structure, consistency, and coordination to annual planning, rolling forecasts, and headcount planning activities.
For individuals eager to improve processes, promote alignment across teams, and ease complex planning cycles, this position offers extensive interaction with Finance, People & Culture, Group Finance, RCOE, and D&D leadership.
The Senior Analyst, Enterprise D&D Planning will support the core planning and forecasting operating rhythm for D&D. This involves structuring timelines, templates, inputs, assumptions, and follow-ups so finance partners and business leaders can plan with greater accuracy, consistency, and accountability.
- Support the planning and forecasting calendar across D&D, including annual plan, rolling forecast, monthly updates, and key submission achievements.
- Assemble and synchronise inputs across Finance, Studios, Product, Technology, People & Culture, Group Finance, and RCOE to support alignment and timely delivery of planning assumptions.
- Keep transparent trackers for forecast submissions, open items, risks, delayed inputs, approvals, and follow-up actions.
- Help prepare planning outputs that are consistent, comparable, and ready for D&D Finance and leadership review.
- Develop, sustain, and enhance headcount planning templates across D&D, incorporating role-level, location, cost centre, hiring, attrition, and transfer inputs.
- Help establish a more structured operating rhythm for planning across D&D, reducing last-minute churn and improving transparency.
- Partner closely with People & Culture and Finance teams to align headcount assumptions, open roles, hiring timing, compensation inputs, and workforce changes.
- Create repeatable processes and controls that improve data quality, reduce rework, and make headcount planning easier to manage across cycles.
- Support clear variance explanations for headcount, compensation, and related cost movements across plan, forecast, and actuals.
- Find opportunities to simplify, standardise, and improve planning and forecasting processes across D&D.
- Maintain planning documentation, process maps, templates, and operating guides to support consistency and knowledge transfer.
- Build trusted relationships by being responsive, organised, and clear on ownership and next steps.
- Support alignment across collaborators by bringing structure, clarity, and follow-through to complex, multi-participant planning cycles.
- 7+ years of experience in FP&A, planning, forecasting, business operations, finance transformation, project management, or related analytical roles (required).
- Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, headcount planning, and recurring finance operating rhythms (required).
- Strong organisational skills, including the ability to manage timelines, dependencies, collaborators, and follow-ups across multiple workstreams (required).
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint, paired with a focus on detail and the talent to generate clear, accurate, and logically arranged work products (required).
- Robust benefits package (required).
- Global career opportunities (required).
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.