Your opportunity

• Act as a senior leader within the FP&A & Business Finance team, contributing to the broader CFO agenda, shaping priorities, influencing decision making, and delivering tangible business value.
• Lead the design and delivery of an end to end transformation of expense planning, forecasting and reporting processes, strengthening cost accountability and management transparency.
• Design and implement multidimensional expense budgeting and forecasting in Anaplan (by cost centre, cost type, vendor, project, currency and entity), aligned to business and finance requirements.
• Leverage upstream improvements for planned S/4Hana General Ledger implementation, including purchase orders / commitments, Vendor Master and Service Master.
• Build and enhance Anaplan infrastructure, and identify opportunities to apply emerging AI capabilities to improve cycle times, data quality and decision agility.
• Partner with Treasury to ensure expense processes and data enable the target state cash flow forecasting capability.
• Own transformation across all non compensation expense categories, including Technology, Legal & Professional, Market Data, Third Party Investment Administration and Marketing.
• Partner with People team to ensure approach synchronised for fixed compensation expenses (managed by People function).
• Embed business function expense reporting - including actual vs budget variance analysis and ExCo scorecard metrics - into the target state reporting landscape, leveraging enterprise reporting and AI platforms.
• Act as a senior integrator across Finance Technology, External Consultants, Procurement and Accounting to deliver the platform and process change programme.
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations.
• Generous holiday policies.
• Excellent health and wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to ClassPass.
• Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community.
• Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more.
• Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services.
• Complimentary subscription to Headspace - the mindfulness app.
• All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities.
• Lunch allowance for use within our subsidised onsite canteen.
• Annual bonus opportunity: position may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus award from the profit pool.
• Competitive compensation, pension/retirement plans, and various health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits.

Must have skills

• End to end finance transformation leadership; proven track record designing and delivering process and operating model change across planning, forecasting, and reporting.
• Strong expense domain expertise; deep understanding of Opex planning and management, including cost drivers, run rate vs project spend, and accountability frameworks.
• Anaplan (or similar platform) delivery capability; hands on experience leading budgeting/forecasting solutions (multidimensional models; workflow; controls; versioning; scenario planning) and partnering effectively with model builders.
• ERP/GL and upstream controls knowledge; strong understanding of how purchase orders, commitments, vendor/service master data and GL design impact expense reporting integrity and controllership outcomes.
• Executive stakeholder management & influencing; ability to align Finance, Procurement, Accounting, Treasury, People, and senior business leaders around priorities, decisions, and adoption.
• Ability to work independently with senior accountability; comfortable operating with minimal oversight, setting direction, and owning outcomes in an ambiguous change environment.
• Adaptability in fast paced environments; demonstrated ability to reprioritise, respond to evolving requirements, and deliver at pace across overlapping initiatives and tight timelines.

Nice to have skills

• Programme delivery discipline; expertise in structured change delivery (scope, milestones, testing/UAT, cutover, training), balancing speed with quality and control.
• Cash flow forecasting integration; experience linking expense plans to Treasury cash forecasting (timing assumptions, vendor payment terms, run rate vs one offs) and building reliable forecast inputs.
• Investment Management Industry experience.

Supervisory responsibilities

No

Potential for growth

• Mentoring
• Leadership development programmes
• Regular training
• Career development services
• Continuing education courses

Compliance and Regulatory Obligations

You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm, and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role. You should be willing to adhere to the provisions of our Investment Advisory Code of Ethics related to personal securities activities and other disclosure and certification requirements, including past political contributions and political activities. Applicants’ past political contributions or activity may impact applicants’ eligibility for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Janus Henderson Investors is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. All applications are subject to background checks.