Lead Financial Planning Analyst- Workplace Solutions

Provides industry-wide expertise to support the division's financial analysis needs. Leads goals and initiatives to advance Finance's vision and strategic goals.

This Lead Financial Analyst role offers the opportunity to shape financial strategy for Vanguard’s Workplace Solutions division, blending hands-on planning leadership with strategic influence at the executive level. The position drives long-term planning, investment prioritization, and high-visibility deliverables while partnering closely with senior stakeholders. It also provides a platform for informal leadership, coaching junior talent while delivering impactful insights that inform key business decisions.

This role will combine planning leadership, strategic ownership, and informal people leadership, including:

• Owning long-term planning and influencing forward-looking divisional strategy and investment prioritization
• Leading planning cycles and executive deliverables, including forecast oversight, QBRs, and board-level reporting (10Q/10K), while informally developing and coaching S1/S2 analysts and AFP participants.
• Driving strategic impact and insights, supporting business cases, competitive intelligence, and select due diligence efforts

Responsibilities:

• Leads initiatives and goals focusing on complex financial analysis supporting enterprise or divisional stakeholders. Conducts complex analyses such as forecasting and financial modeling.
• Provides thought leadership to the development of financial methodologies and approaches. Conducts ad hoc and periodic evaluation reviews to help assess the profitability of product lines and distribution channels.
• Establishes and deploys subject matter expertise across the financial, accounting and regulatory areas to support complex client matters. Creates presentations for senior leaders to inform on financial performance.
• Owns enterprise channel and product costing models and the production of end user cost matrices for internal team use. Implements systematic approach to maintaining and continuously improve the models. Provides support and input into client and product pricing.
• Manages responses to requests for information related to internal business statistics and trends. Engages appropriate resources to support requests, determines appropriate sources of information, collects, compiles, interprets, analyzes and summarizes results in alignment with the overall business strategy.
• Identifies opportunities to improve the delivery of financial services to internal clients and implements procedural changes, as needed. Structures and manages projects and ad-hoc requests.
• Supports the financial development and growth of the team.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of five years’ related work experience, with at least two years' financial services industry experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Economics or Finance degree preferred. Graduate degree preferred.
• CPA, CFM, CMA, or other financial designation preferred.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.