Senior Analyst, Enterprise D&D Planning

About the Position

At Aristocrat, we believe in creating the world's greatest gaming and entertainment experiences through innovation, and meticulous investment. Our success is driven by our focus on delivering value to players, customers, and shareholders. We are looking for a highly organized and analytically strong finance professional to join our Development & Design Finance group as a Senior Analyst, Enterprise D&D Planning. This role is pivotal in bringing greater structure, consistency, and coordination to our annual planning, rolling forecasts, and headcount planning activities.

Responsibilities

As Senior Analyst, Enterprise D&D Planning, you will support the core planning and forecasting operating rhythm for D&D. Your key responsibilities include:

• Support the planning and forecasting calendar across D&D, including annual plan, rolling forecast, monthly updates, and key submission achievements.
• Assemble and synchronize inputs across Finance, Studios, Product, Technology, People & Culture, Group Finance, and RCOE to support alignment and timely delivery of planning assumptions.
• Keep transparent trackers for forecast submissions, open items, risks, delayed inputs, approvals, and follow-up actions.
• Help prepare planning outputs that are consistent, comparable, and ready for D&D Finance and leadership review.
• Develop, sustain, and enhance headcount planning templates across D&D, incorporating role-level, location, cost center, hiring, attrition, and transfer inputs.
• Help establish a more structured operating rhythm for planning across D&D, reducing last-minute churn and improving transparency.
• Partner closely with People & Culture and Finance teams to align headcount assumptions, open roles, hiring timing, compensation inputs, and workforce changes.
• Create repeatable processes and controls that improve data quality, reduce rework, and make headcount planning easier to manage across cycles.
• Support clear variance explanations for headcount, compensation, and related cost movements across plan, forecast, and actuals.
• Find opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve planning and forecasting processes across D&D.
• Maintain planning documentation, process maps, templates, and operating guides to support consistency and knowledge transfer.
• Build trusted relationships by being responsive, organized, and clear on ownership and next steps.
• Support alignment across collaborators by bringing structure, clarity, and follow-through to complex, multi-participant planning cycles.

Requirements

• Required Experience: 7+ years of experience in FP&A, planning, forecasting, business operations, finance transformation, project management, or related analytical roles.
• Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, headcount planning, and recurring finance operating rhythms.
• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to manage timelines, dependencies, collaborators, and follow-ups across multiple workstreams.
• Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint, paired with a focus on detail and the talent to generate clear, accurate, and logically arranged work products.

We Offer

We offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package designed to stay competitive in the market, support your wellbeing, and recognize your contribution to our success. Our approach is underpinned by a pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact. Your specific compensation package will be determined by factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location. Depending on your role and location, you may be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits. Specific details about compensation and benefits for this position will be discussed during the recruitment process.

About the Company

Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL) is a global entertainment and gaming content creation company powered by technology. Our three reporting segments comprise regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), Social Casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive). Aristocrat offers a diverse range of products and services, including electronic gaming machines, casino management systems, online real money games, including iLottery, as well as free-to-play mobile games, that serve customers and entertain millions of players worldwide every day. Our team of ~7,400 people across the globe is united by our company's mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.