Senior Director: Enterprise Workforce Planning Transformation

About the Role

Join Aristocrat as a transformative leader to develop and implement a cutting-edge enterprise workforce planning capacity that will steer investment, growth, and competitiveness within a global technology and gaming context. This pivotal position involves collaborating with senior leadership to reshape strategic workforce decision-making across the organization, integrating innovative processes and AI-powered analytics to align talent, strategy, and financial outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and apply a future operating framework spanning Finance, People & Culture, business units, Corporate Functions, and Enterprise Data & Analytics, defining roles, responsibilities, decision authorities, and governance structures.
• Revamp the complete workforce planning lifecycle from strategic resource demands to budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and executive evaluation.
• Lead the enterprise-wide workforce planning overhaul, articulating the purpose, roadmap, achievements, and embedding new methodologies.
• Collaborate with Finance, People & Culture, and executive teams to convert strategic goals, organizational shifts, and expansion plans into regulated workforce strategies.
• Standardize processes, assumptions, data terminology, reporting norms, governance procedures, and approval workflows to enhance clarity, uniformity, and accountability.
• Produce detailed workforce budgets and forecasts encompassing headcount, labor expenses, contract workers, and related investments.
• Manage consolidated headcount predictions including turnover trends, job vacancies, recruitment pipelines, attrition, contractor deployment, operational efficiencies, and labor cost fluctuations.
• Generate workforce scenarios to evaluate growth prospects, efficiency programs, organizational restructuring, mergers, and labor investment decisions.
• Coordinate with the Regional Centre of Excellence to develop and maintain workforce planning reports, dashboards, and self-service analytical tools aligned with stakeholder requirements.
• Present executive-level insights on transformation progress, workforce effectiveness, labor cost trajectories, forecast reliability, efficiencies, risks, and opportunities.
• Drive change adoption by engaging stakeholders, assessing impact, facilitating communication, delivering training, preparing documentation, and enhancing team capabilities.
• Lead and mentor the Workforce Planning Manager and Finance Analysts, cultivating skills in transformation implementation, workforce data analysis, financial modeling, and collaborative business partnership.

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 12 years of professional experience in Finance Transformation, FP&A, Workforce Planning, Analytics, or similar roles within complex multinational organizations.
• Proven expertise in managing enterprise transformation initiatives including current-state evaluation, future-state design, implementation planning, governance of delivery, and benefits realization.
• Exceptional analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities with strong data and financial analysis proficiency.
• Experienced from strategic planning to execution, with a focus on redesigning finance or planning workflows, operational models, governance frameworks, and decision-making venues across multifaceted stakeholder networks.
• Robust change management background encompassing roadmap creation, progress monitoring, dependency oversight, risk control, issue remedy, and executive communication.
• Skilled in facilitating balanced change adoption through stakeholder collaboration, impact review, communication strategy, training, documentation, and adoption support.
• In-depth understanding of workforce planning mechanics, headcount forecasting, labor cost control, operational efficiency drivers, and the interaction between workforce investments and financial results.
• Demonstrated use of data analytics, automation, AI-based tools, and advanced analytic techniques to enhance planning quality, forecast precision, insight generation, and decision-making.
• Experience improving planning applications, dashboards, self-service reporting, and data governance, utilizing platforms such as Anaplan, Workday, TM1, Dynamics 365, Power BI, or comparable technologies.

Compensation & Benefits

We provide a competitive remuneration and benefits package crafted to recognize your impact and support your health and wellbeing. Compensation is based on skills, experience, credentials, and location. Eligible candidates may receive bonuses, incentives, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance benefits, and other statutory benefits as applicable. Further details will be discussed during recruitment.

Additional Information

This job description may have undergone AI-assisted enhancement to ensure clarity, consistency, and inclusivity. All final content and hiring decisions are subject to human review and approval by Aristocrat.