What you’ll be doing
- Trusted Advisor: Partner with senior leaders across the Australian business, providing financial insight, constructively challenging assumptions and shaping key commercial and operational decisions.
- Planning & Forecasting: Own the budget, quarterly forecasts and long-range plan for your portfolio, aligning financial outcomes with business strategy and presenting them to senior leadership.
- Performance Insight: Oversee month-end performance reporting, delivering variance analysis and forward-looking commentary that drives action.
- Modelling & Decision Support: Lead complex financial models, scenario analysis and business cases that inform pricing, major investments, new products and strategic projects, and take the recommendation through to a decision.
- Business Partnering: Work closely with leaders across product, technology, marketing and shared services, including regular stand-ups with product managers on what we build next and what it’s worth.
- Monitor key value drivers, revenue performance, cost base and market trends to anticipate risks and opportunities and recommend ways to improve performance.
- Champion continuous improvement across planning, reporting and finance processes, using AI and automation to work smarter, and help lift business partnering capability across the team.
What we’re looking for
- A professional accounting qualification (CPA or CA).
- 5+ years’ experience in commercial finance, FP&A or business partnering, ideally already working as a Finance Business Partner and ready for the next step.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with senior stakeholders and influencing commercial outcomes.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build credibility with financially and non-financially minded stakeholders.
- The confidence to challenge assumptions, hold a view and clearly explain financial implications, trade-offs and recommended courses of action.
- Strong financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting capability.
- Experience leading business cases and decision support, from building the model through to the recommendation.
- Curiosity and a proactive approach, including demonstrated use of AI tools to automate finance processes and generate faster, deeper insights.
- The ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment while maintaining accuracy, judgment and attention to detail.
- Experience in a technology, subscription or marketplace business, and with Oracle EPM, NetSuite, Salesforce and advanced Excel, will be advantageous.
We know not everyone will meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If you’re excited about the role and believe you can make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
A few other things we want you to know...
- As an equal opportunity employer, carsales welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and life experiences. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
- If you have a disability or require adjustments to participate fully in the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re here to support you.
- We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including part-time options. If you’d like to explore this, just ask during the process.
- We’re also a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.
- Successful candidates joining the carsales team will need to complete a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights.
So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.