Senior Finance Manager – Sustainability
Our Story
Scentre Group is the owner and operator of 42 Westfield living centres in Australia and New Zealand; partnering with the world’s leading retail and luxury brands to create a unique shopping and leisure experience for our customers. A career with us fosters the chance to be a part of a company that is transforming the digital and physical retail space.
Every day, our people play a vital role in our purpose to ‘create extraordinary places, connecting and enriching communities.’
Your opportunity
This newly created Finance role within our Sustainability space will support the General Manager – Group Planning to contribute across areas of governance, strategy, risk management and metrics and targets.
The near-term focus of the role is to ensure that the Australian Sustainability Standards requirements are embedded in our approach. You will be required to work collaboratively across the organisation, along with the responsibility for the delivery of the Group’s broader ESG reporting suite (broader than climate) and to evolve our communication approach. As well as lead the engagement with ESG Rating Agencies that benchmark the Group’s performance.
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Support the GM – Group Planning to deliver climate reporting in accordance with mandatory sustainability standards
- Work with external consultants or advisors as required identify any gaps and to collaborate with the business to ensure any gaps are closed
- Lead assurance or verification activities for all sustainability reporting
- Continuous learning and sharing the latest developments in reporting standards and legislation.
- Oversee enterprise ESG Reporting including the performance data pack
- Oversee ESG Rating surveys and results, including insights to inform improvements in our ESG approach
- Monitor external ESG Trends and implications to the Group
- Drive analysis and benchmarking of ESG performance against peers
- Lead others, share knowledge and support growth and development
- Support General Manager – Group Planning on preparing Board updates
What will set you apart from the rest?
- Must Have – CPA or Chartered Accountant
- Preferred – Understanding and experience in applying sustainability frameworks, TCFD, GRI, TNFD
- Preferred – working knowledge of accounting frameworks
- Commercial acumen
- Ability to influence and drive decision making
- Analytical mindset and excel skills required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with wide range of stakeholders
- Attention to detail
- Strong organisational and project management skills
What sets us apart from the rest?
- Diverse career paths across our vertically integrated business
- Ability to innovate in a company that not only encourages it but will facilitate it
- We’re recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) and committed to creating a workplace culture in which women and men are equally represented, valued and rewarded
- Competitive benefits including 18 weeks parental leave, volunteer days to work with our charity partners, health and wellbeing discounts, and ability to purchase extra annual leave
We encourage and support our employees to find balance in their work lives and what is important to them outside of work by embracing a flexible approach to how they work. If you're able to perform the requirements of the role and need some form of flexibility to do so, we're open to your application and ideas on how we could make it work.
Our diverse and inclusive workforce is not only something we’re proud of, but something we’re committed to. We encourage and support our people to bring their ‘whole selves’ to work every day. This is because we believe all our differences contribute to our success and ensures a workforce that reflects the customers we serve. Our commitment is backed by executive and employee-led working groups including All Abilities, LGBTI, Mental Health & Wellness and Gender Equity alongside other initiatives such as our Reconciliation Action Plan to grow our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.
If this sounds like you, apply today to make extraordinary happen!
