We're reimagining the way Australians live, work, and play. We own and manage some of the most recognisable and loved retail destinations across Australia.

 
We’re evolving our portfolio into destinations that offer a broad selection of retail, residential, and office spaces. Through our diverse portfolio, data-led decision-making, and nationwide development pipeline, we do things differently.

We are Vicinity.

Role purpose

This role plays a pivotal role in driving and delivering the full scope of Vicinity’s investor relations strategy and annual program of deliverables.

The role is responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day investor relations deliverables, including program managing and drafting of Vicinity’s market facing materials, responding to analyst and investor enquiries, managing Vicinity’s verification process, maintaining the consensus model, sharing market sentiment and feedback internally as well as contributing to the preparation of all externally facing documents.

Key Accountabilities 

Investor Relations    

• Assist in the program management and production of all equity market disclosures, including ASX announcements, results, annual reports and investor presentations, Q+As, speaker notes, semi-annual property book
• Actively participate in analyst and investor meetings, taking notes and where relevant raising key themes and items of note with CEO / CFO and other relevant Executives
• Build strong working relationships with equity research analysts and investors, ensuring queries are responded to in a timely, informed and consistent manner
• Build partnerships with internal stakeholders to enable the team to have access to insights and information that informs all external market communications
• Oversee and support the maintenance of Vicinity’s consensus model, identifying material divergences, seeking insights from the Financial Planning & Analysis team and provide advice on approach to address divergences with relevant analysts
• Manage the verification of all externally announcements, working with relevant teams to ensure the integrity and rigour of the process
• Prepare market feedback and roadshow meeting notes summaries
• Contribute to the preparation of internal reporting, including the monthly shareholder register analysis and board reports

Investor Relations & Corporate Communications

• Support the team with the development and implement communication strategies that align with stakeholder / customer goals and objectives, from centre-specific needs to enterprise-wide matters
• Work with Corporate Access & Communications Manager and Corporate Communications Manager to ensure all teams and functions are supported with the preparation of ad-hoc external and periodical communications, including Capability Statements, Sustainability-related reporting, Leasing presentations, Insurance, CoSec, and Treasury-related communications e.g., debt investor presentation
• With a can-do and hands-on mindset that ensures the delivery of whole-of-team deliverables, actively contribute to “idea and content creation” across the full gamut of the Investor Relations and Corporate Communications deliverables 
• Consistently consider and share ideas on all aspects of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications to consistently raise the bar on team performance

Key Role Relationships

Internal

• CEO and CFO and Executive Leadership Team and EAs - Customer
• Customer and Asset Management team - Customer 
• Leasing (as required) – Customer 
• Capital transactions team - Customer
• People & Organisational Development  
• Internal Communications – Customer 
• Marketing team
• Sustainability – Customer 
• Business Leadership Team
• Very much enterprise-wide stakeholder group

External
Direct

• Institutional and retail investors and their stewardship and indirectly, their credit teams
• Research analysts / brokers
• Direct: Financial and trade media in partnership with GM
• Other Shareholders and shareholder bodies (including proxy advisors and ASA)
• Investment Banks (Equity Capital Markets) and equity sales desks / corporate access teams 
• Professional and industry bodies, including Australasian Investor Relations Association (“AIRA”)
• Orient Capital (indirect)
• Atticus – verification platform provider
• Consultants, including proxy solicitation campaign providers

Indirect

• Indirect: Share Registry provider, Link Market Services (customer: CoSec)
• Indirect: Vicinity’s joint venture partners (customer: Director, Funds Management)
• Indirect: Industry bodies including PCA and SCCA (customer: GD, Development & Government Relations)
• Indirect: Local and State Government representatives / Ministers and planning departments (customer: GD, Development & Government Relations)
• Indirect: Retail tenants (customers: GD, Leasing / GD Development & Government Relations / Centre teams)
• Indirect: Communities within which assets are located (customer: centre teams, sustainability)

Experience & Capabilities 

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE (what you have done)    

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in finance, communications or related fields, ideally gained in listed property sector
• Experience communicating strategic, financial and operational concepts clearly, compellingly and consistently
• Had exposure to and/or working knowledge of investor relations, and capital markets

CAPABILITIES (what you can do)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to read and translate complex financial and operational metrics and strong understanding of Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cashflow Statements
• Ability to distil complex strategic and financial metrics / outcomes  into narrative that consistently links execution & performance to strategy is imperative
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Relentlessly focused on attention to detail and quality control
• Strong thought leadership skills and ability to influence at all levels
• You are cool headed under pressure

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES (who you are)    
You consistently demonstrate and role model the behaviours that bring the Vicinity values to life:

Respect: 

• We listen to and acknowledge each other's views 
• We have difficult conversations with care 

Integrity: 

• We back our words with the right actions
• We do the right thing, no matter the situation 

Customer Focus: 

• We nurture a genuine connection with our customers 
• We consider customer needs when making decisions 

Collaboration: 

• We invite the right people to the table 
• We balance consensus with decisive actions 

Excellence: 

• We always strive to improve
• We share our challenges and celebrate the wins
   

Why Vicinity?

Our benefits program focuses on creating an awesome place to work in which our people are rewarded and recognised. This includes:

• Flexible working options 
• Birthday leave & purchased additional leave
• $1,000 worth of VCX securities rewarded for eligible team members
• Internal mentoring program
• Generous Parental Leave

We live and work by our values of Respect, Integrity, Customer Focus, Collaboration and Excellence.  They are the foundation to everything we do and provide us a north star with which we can shape meaningful places where communities connect.

At Vicinity we embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where we attract, retain and develop our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

Our people and our Employee Advocacy Groups (Gender Balance, Cultural Diversity, Disability & Access and Pride & Allies) actively build community and provide allyship within Vicinity. If you’d like to speak to someone to understand what it’s like firsthand to work here, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team.

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Email: talent.acquisition@vicinity.com.au

Phone: +61 3 7001 4000 (request to speak to our Talent Acquisition team)

Note: To be eligible to apply for this position, you must have existing, relevant Australian work rights. At the later stages of the recruitment process the shortlisted candidate/candidates will be required to undergo a Criminal History Background/Police Check as a mandatory part of the process. Additional qualification checks may also be required dependant on role and level.