• Provide insights into key performance indicators (KPIs) and recommend actions to drive our Partner channel customer and revenue outcomes, and in turn optimise investments and ROI.
• Provide analytical support for forecasting, budgeting and long range planning with a specific focus on key revenue and growth drivers
• Take initiative, and drive improvements in the current S&M expense forecast/budgeting process to create capacity to devote to revenue generating analysis
• Have a strong understanding of Xeroʼs underlying business drivers and Saa S metrics
• Ad-hoc financial modelling and analytical requests as needed
• Partner with the Accounting team to ensure understanding of financial / performance trends
• Gain an expert level understanding of financial reporting systems (Anaplan, Adaptive, Jedi (internal) and Netsuite), and underlying data sources
• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes and reporting capabilities. Implement best practices to streamline financial operations and enhance efficiency
• Participate in significant corporate or company-wide finance projects and initiatives as directed
• Improve the ‘data-to-insight’ pipeline by understanding and advising on use of various data sources within Sales, Marketing & Finance to support model building, insights and decision making

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  Creation of strong partnerships across the regional sales and operations teams. You will proactively manage your key stakeholders to create clear expectations and deliver to them
• Insightful analysis of ANZʼs capital deployment to Revenue output attribution, identifying key drivers, spend ROI, and funnel metric impacts
• Define problems and scope solutions for your work, understanding the business context of the work as well as the broader strategic direction of the product and company
• Deal Modelling: support and continuous refinement of key deal review process
• Develop insightful and professional reporting that support strategic objectives and high-quality decision making
• Providing insightful analysis of transactional data and financial information
• Drive better use and deployment of our data assets and drive efficiencies in our processes
• Demonstrate understanding of the product, how it is sold by us and used by our customers and the business model. Use this knowledge to identify opportunities to drive growth.
• Strong relationships across the global finance team, revenue operations, and other key areas
• Exhibit strong curiosity to learn and drive growth

• Exceptional strategic thinking and problem solving skills
• Strong data manipulation including strong commercial modelling skills to build complex excel models
• Strong commercial acumen to drive better decisions and outcomes
• Effective communicator and influencer
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong planning, organisational, problem-solving and self-management skills
• Intellectually curious and innate drive
• Team player who works collaboratively
• Deep understanding of Saa S Metrics and the levers to drive value
• Stakeholder centric, providing insights and adding value to the business

• 5+ yearsʼ finance experience in a high growth organisation
• Bachelorʼs degree in Finance and/or Economics required.
• Experience with a top investment bank, consulting, or hyper growth Saa S company is highly desired
• Exposure to, and understanding of, data techniques (SQL, Python) is desirable
• History of process improvement
• FP&A Systems Experience (Anaplan, Adaptive, etc.), highly preferred