- Drive the financial strategy that helps shape the future of Zip across Australia and New Zealand
- Lead with deep expertise in FP&A, commercial finance and strategic business partnering
- Bring your collaborative and influencing skills to build trusted relationships, develop high performing teams
- Work flexibly with hybrid working arrangements and regular team connection days in our Sydney office.
Write your story with a career at Zip
Our Finance team plays a critical role in helping Zip make smarter, faster and more informed decisions. By combining commercial insight, strategic thinking and data driven analysis, the team helps shape the future direction of the business while supporting sustainable growth and strong financial performance.
As Director of FP&A (ANZ), you will lead the commercial and financial planning strategy for the ANZ business. Reporting into senior Finance leadership, you'll partner closely with executives across Product, Commercial, Strategy and Operations to provide the financial insights that drive decision making across the organisation. You'll lead a high performing team of Finance Business Partners while helping modernise our planning capabilities through automation, advanced analytics and AI enabled forecasting.
What you'll own
- Lead ANZ budgeting, rolling forecasts and long range planning processes, ensuring clear alignment between financial outcomes and strategic priorities.
- Translate complex commercial, product and operational drivers into meaningful insights that support executive decision making.
- Partner with leaders across Product, Commercial, Strategy and Operations to evaluate growth opportunities, pricing initiatives, investment decisions and margin optimisation strategies.
- Develop robust scenario modelling and forecasting frameworks that improve visibility of risks, opportunities and key business drivers.
- Drive the evolution of FP&A capabilities through automation, scalable planning processes and improved access to data driven insights.
- Champion the adoption of business intelligence tools, predictive analytics and AI enabled forecasting methodologies.
- Lead, coach and develop a high performing team of Finance Business Partners, creating an inclusive culture focused on growth, accountability and continuous improvement.
- Embed strong risk return thinking into planning and forecasting processes, ensuring business decisions align with Zip's strategic objectives and risk appetite.
- Continuously improve financial transparency, forecasting accuracy and performance management across the ANZ business.
What you'll bring to the team
Zipsters work on a broad range of initiatives, and our skills and experiences all look a little different. What really matters to us is that you're a great fit with our four Values, and have a desire to learn and grow.
So whether you meet some or all of the desirable attributes below, we'd still love to hear from you:
- Extensive experience leading FP&A, Commercial Finance or Strategic Finance functions within high growth technology, fintech or financial services environments.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect financial outcomes to broader business strategy and growth objectives.
- Exceptional financial modelling, forecasting and analytical skills, with experience translating complex information into actionable business insights.
- Proven ability to influence and partner with executive stakeholders across multiple business functions.
- Experience leading and developing high performing teams through periods of growth, transformation and change.
- Strong understanding of financial planning systems, ERP platforms and modern reporting environments.
- Passion for leveraging automation, business intelligence tools, data accessibility and emerging AI capabilities to improve decision making.
- Experience within consumer lending, fintech or financial services environments, including exposure to unit economics, customer acquisition metrics, margins, cost of capital or bad debt modelling, will be highly regarded.
- A mindset that embraces AI and new tools to adapt, learn and grow.
- An aptitude for identifying and managing risks. Whether you are a People Manager or an Individual Contributor, we are all leaders at Zip, therefore effective risk management is important to how we run our business and part of all our roles.
- Our values in your DNA. Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together and Change the Game.
What you'll get in return
As we write this next exciting chapter in our story, we will continue to move at pace and embrace change. For you, this might mean opportunities to learn new skills with hands on experience, broader responsibilities, or the buzz of seeing your work impact customers faster.
Zip is a place where you'll get out exactly what you put in. When you join the team, we'll do our best to make sure you can be yourself and surround yourself with smart, friendly colleagues and leaders who have your back, so that you can make the big things happen.
Zipsters tell us these are just some of the best things about working here. You'll also receive:
- 25 days paid leave annually, including birthday leave and quarterly wellbeing days
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, and 4 weeks for supporting carers
- Family support policies including miscarriage bereavement leave and domestic violence leave
- Mental health and wellness initiatives, including $299 annual wellbeing allowance, free access for you and family members to our Wellbeing platform Sonder, discounted private health insurance, and great rates on fitness sessions through ClassPass
- 2 days paid volunteering leave, 2 days study leave and 2 days religious or cultural leave per year
- Fee free Zip products, and discounts with Zip merchant partners (AU)
- Team social events, epic offices, free breakfast daily, and weekly free lunches
- Access the Flare Benefits Hub & Novated Leasing: Save on groceries, fuel, tech, fashion, dining and more, with exclusive health perks, wellbeing guidance and potential tax savings on car ownership.
Be a part of a team that reflects the diversity of our customers
We pride ourselves on being a workplace that provides equal opportunities to people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, veteran status, and everything else that makes you unique.
Equally, we're committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive. Please let us know if there are any adjustments that need to be made to ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.
And finally…get to know us
Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people centred products.
Operating in two core markets, Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and the US, Zip offers access to point of sale credit and digital payment services, connecting millions of customers with its global network of tens of thousands of merchants.
We're proud to be a values led business and our values, Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together and Change the Game, guide us in everything we do.
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