Senior Manager - Budgeting, Planning & Financial Analysis. CDU

Role

Senior Manager – Budgeting, Planning & Financial Analysis – Sports BU

Development Finance & Analysis (DFA)

To support the Director FP&A in the budgeting, planning, project accounting, and performance reporting agenda across the Sports asset portfolio, with a strong grounding in construction and development-stage financial management.

The role drives system-led automation and standardisation, with a strong focus on SAP and PRISM, ensuring a single version of the truth for TDC, cash flow, funding, and financial performance. The role acts as the financial integrator between Development, PMO, Commercial, Risk, Treasury, Development teams, and IT.

This role is a senior role within Sports DFA, covering:

• Lead annual, multi-year, and rolling budget processes across assets and BUs, covering pre-development, construction and delivery phases
• Establish and maintain TDC baselines, reforecasts, and cash-flow projections, incorporating construction progress and procurement strategies
• Implement driver-based budgeting models linking scope, program, procurement, and construction productivity drivers to outcomes
• Own budget phasing aligned with construction programs to support funding plans, cash calls, and liquidity management
• Align budgets and forecasts with funding strategies (equity, debt, drawdowns, covenants)

• Process and control project accounting transactions in SAP (in coordination with Finance) & PRISM, including budget uploads, budget transfers, commitment creation, accrual postings, and cost allocations
• Maintain commitment and actuals tracking at project, package, and contract level, ensuring timely and accurate capture of construction costs
• Monitor forecast-to-complete (FTC) and update projections based on certified quantities, executed variations and procurement commitments
• Track and record TDC movements, including approved budget changes, reallocations and cumulative impact of variation orders and claims
• Record and monitor contingency, inflation and risk drawdowns, ensuring approvals are obtained and reflected correctly in systems
• Perform monthly reconciliations between budgets, commitments, actuals, and cash flow, investigating and resolving variances
• Maintain complete audit trails for all budget changes, approvals and re-baselining actions in line with governance requirements
• Support internal and external audits by providing transaction-level support, reconciliations and documentation
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, approval matrices and delegations of authority related to construction and development spend

• Support asset feasibility and development-stage business planning, ensuring assumptions on construction cost, revenue, program and lifecycle are realistic and aligned with financial strategy
• Lead option analysis (phasing, packaging, procurement strategy, acceleration/deceleration), quantifying financial trade-offs across development and construction stages
• Develop scenario and stress-testing models to assess impacts of inflation, delays, constructability risks, funding constraints and scope changes
• Support stage-gate financial readiness reviews, ensuring affordability, funding, constructability and risk impacts are clearly articulated
• Partner with Development, Construction, and PMO teams to translate master programs into financially phased plans

• Deliver consolidated BU-level financial and non-financial reporting across development and construction, including:
  • TDC baseline vs forecast vs actual
  • Construction cost and progress variance analysis
  • Funding availed vs required
  • Cash-flow projections
  • Commitments, risks, and opportunities
• Design and deliver management, ExCo, and Board dashboards with clear construction and development narratives
• Embed early-warning indicators (cost overruns, program slippage, cash pressure)
• Ensure reporting supports…