Manager, FP&A - Product
Sydney, AU / Melbourne, AU
Business Services – Finance /
Permanent /
Hybrid
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
As the Manager, FP&A for Product you will play a pivotal role in providing expertise and insight to deliver financial planning and analysis across your designated portfolio and team. Reporting into, and working closely with the GM Finance - Product you will help to bolster business acumen, critical and commercial thinking into decision making within the portfolio.
Building strong relationships with the GMs throughout the portfolio, you will become a trusted advisor, helping to guide decision making and drive efficient growth. You will be critical in helping to manage business case creation and appraisal for all capital allocation decisions. In addition, you will become the go-to for managing the forecasting, budgeting and reporting for your portfolio, leveraging your thorough understanding of the requirements and Xero’s business model.
What you'll do
- Partner with the Product EGMs & GMs, enabling faster and better decision making and performance, consistent with the strategy of both the Product portfolio and Xero
- Support the GM Finance - Product in driving the leadership teams in making decisions through modelling, analysis, inquiry, challenge, generating options and providing advice on the financial implications and consequences of business decisions
- Generate insights including the “so-what”, to recommend and advise the business on how best to improve operations, optimise performance, and adapt to changing business conditionsHelp to drive planning, reporting and forecasting for your portfolio, translating strategy into financial targets and tactical plans in deep partnership with Product & Operations teams
- Supply and implement best practice management reporting and modelling, providing strategic insight on the content of reports and performance evaluation for key metrics
- Execute current year delivery including creation of the annual budget and periodic reporting
- Management of all aspects of workforce planning ensuring FTEs and Open Role Planners are maintained, PO approval, and system inputs for forecasting / budgeting
- Support the GM Finance in the development and evaluation of strategies and investment opportunities
- Contribute to the development and implementation of Xero’s capital allocation framework, reviewing capital expenditure and evaluating investments for the portfolio.
- Build commercial skills across the business, including risk/reward decision making and value management
- Actively contribute to and provide support for projects/initiatives undertaken by the Finance team and by the wider Financial Planning team
- Be a proficient user of our planning and reporting systems, not only owning the inputs, but ensuring these are entered in a timely manner as required by reporting and forecasting timelines
What you'll bring with you
- 7+ years of progressive financial experience within a commercial finance/ FP&A team
- Qualified accountant (CA, CPA etc.)
- Experience within a Consulting or Accounting firm and/or a SaaS company is highly desirable.
- Experience with financial systems such as NetSuite, business intelligence tools and corporate performance management software.
- Strong business planning, budgeting/forecasting abilities
- Ability to hold budget holders to account to deliver on financial commitments
- Capital expenditure and investment evaluation
- Performance management and drive business performance
- Deep understanding of SaaS Metrics and the levers to drive value
- Clear understanding of strategic direction and drivers
- Strong negotiation and decision making ability Stakeholder centric, providing insights and adding value to the business.
Why Xero?
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
