About this opportunity
Drive commercial rigor across the business units, partnering with sales, marketing, procurement & operations teams to execute the overall Divisional strategy across our 4 sites in South West Sydney.
You will provide clear insight into the performance drivers and operations of the business units, identify risk and opportunities, and bring a healthy balance of challenge and partnership to your business leaders.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Create plans, budgets, and forecasts by working closely with the sales & operational teams.
- Oversee the management of the monthly Demand Forecasting Cycle
- Manage the preparation of the capital forecast and perform asset capitalization.
- Regularly review and update the product cost and pricing structure and ensure standard cost accuracy to enable better decision making.
- Analyse sales & margin to understand customer/product mix changes, provide insightful commentary and recommendations to key stakeholders.
- Provide input into customer pricing / tender process, challenging pricing and costing assumptions and identifying any gaps
- Support warehouse staff that perform monthly cycle count stock takes
- Review monthly results (P&L, Balance Sheet, FTEs) to identify unexpected or unusual items
- Review and manage working & capital monthly capital spend against approved capital projects
- Lead preparation and roll up of cyclical management reporting (annual, quarterly, monthly) for supported sites and provide meaningful insights.
- Review systems and operational accounting practices and procedures to ensure alignment across the group, drawing on internal and external leading practice
Your skills and experience
To be successful in this role, you’ll have:
- 10+ years experience in a FP&A, management accounting or cost accounting role in a FMCG, retail or manufacturing environment.
- Previous experience working with product formulation, launches and end of life cycle management.
- Strong financial analysis skills and experience with ability to turn business analysis into insights and clearly articulate these to finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Solid understanding of the principles of financial management, including management of the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
- Demonstrated experience in leveraging knowledge to manage costs, risks, revenues, and profits
- Demonstrated experience in driving process improvement
- Ability to work to challenging deadlines in demanding fast paced environment
- Skills in systems, data and BI/Planning applications preferred (e.g., SAP, BPC, Cognos, Power BI etc.)
