Senior Director: Enterprise Workforce Planning Transformation
Aristocrat is seeking a transformational leader to design and build a next-generation enterprise planning capability that will directly influence how the business invests, scales, and competes. This is an opportunity to lead an enterprise-wide transformation, partnering with senior executives to redefine how strategic workforce decisions are made across a global technology and gaming business.
The successful candidate will architect the future state planning model, modernise planning processes, and leverage data and AI-driven insights. The objective is to establish a globally integrated approach that links talent, strategy, and financial performance.
- Define and implement a future-state operating model across Finance, P&C, Business Units, Corporate Functions, and Enterprise Data & Analytics, including accountabilities, decision rights, and governance forums.
- Redesign the end-to-end workforce planning cycle from strategic demand through to budget, forecast, reporting, and executive decision-making.
- Lead the enterprise workforce planning transformation, encompassing the rationale for change, transformation roadmap, main accomplishments, and ongoing integration of new methods.
- Partner with Finance, P&C, and executive leaders to translate strategic priorities, organisational changes, and growth plans into governed workforce plans.
- Drive process standardisation, planning assumptions, data definitions, reporting standards, governance routines, and approval pathways to improve consistency, transparency, and accountability.
- Deliver robust workforce budgets and forecasts covering headcount, labour costs, contractors, and workforce-related investments.
- Own consolidated headcount forecasting, including workforce trends, vacancies, hiring pipelines, attrition, contractor usage, efficiency, and labour cost movements.
- Develop workforce scenarios to assess growth, efficiency initiatives, organisational redesign, acquisitions, restructuring, and labour investment choices.
- Work with the Regional Centre's Of Excellence to ensure appropriate workforce planning reporting, dashboarding, and self-service analytics are developed, maintained, and aligned to collaborator needs.
- Provide executive insights on transformation progress, workforce performance, labour cost trends, forecast accuracy, efficiency, risks, and opportunities.
- Promote the adoption of change by engaging collaborators, analysing change impact, facilitating communication, offering training, preparing documentation, and developing capabilities.
- Lead and mentor the Workforce Planning Manager and Finance Analysts, building capability in transformation delivery, workforce analytics, financial modelling, and business partnering.
- Minimum of 12+ years' experience across Finance Transformation, FP&A, Workforce Planning, Analytics, or related roles in complex global organisations (required).
- Deep experience leading enterprise transformation programs, including current-state assessment, future-state development, implementation planning, delivery governance, and benefits realisation (required).
- Structured problem solver with excellent data and financial analysis skills (required).
- Strategy development through to implementation skills (required).
- Proven experience redesigning finance or planning processes, operating models, governance structures, and decision forums across complex collaborator groups (required).
- Strong transformation delivery capability, including roadmap development, achievement tracking, dependency management, risk mitigation, issue resolution, and executive status reporting (required).
- Experience integrating balanced change through working with collaborators, evaluating change effects, communications, training, documentation, and adoption assistance (required).
- Strong understanding of workforce planning, headcount forecasting, labour cost management, efficiency drivers, and the link between workforce investment and financial outcomes (required).
- Demonstrated ability to use data, automation, AI-enabled tools, and advanced analytics to transform planning quality, forecasting accuracy, insight generation, and decision support (required).
- Experience driving innovation in planning tools, dashboards, self-service reporting, and data governance, including platforms such as Anaplan, Workday, TM1, D365, Power BI, or similar (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.
- Potential eligibility for annual bonuses and incentives.
- Health and wellbeing benefits.
- Paid time off.
- Retirement plans.
- Insurance coverage.
- 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.