Description
This role provides commercial support to the Head of Finance and Foodservice & Export team across the following main areas:
1. Financial planning, budgeting and forecasting;
2. Financial analysis and month-end reporting;
3. Financial modelling, calculation of financial outcome under different scenarios;
4. Process improvement and business insights
Responsibilities:
5. Assisting in completion of monthly financial forecast/ budgeting cycle, including engaging with the key stakeholders to ensure the Sales Plan is accurately recorded in the financial system with the following key areas of focus:Mix: engaging with the Sales Team and Demand Planners to ensure volume/mix is correctly captured within distribution channels and product categories; providing insights to key variances versus the Budget and comparable periods;Pricing/COGS: ensuring all rates in the financial forecast are up to date and engaging with the relevant teams to action system corrections as required;Deals: working with the sales team to ensure all deals are loaded into the system and variances to the Budget are explained;Manually load any other variances into the system to align to the Sales Plan.
6. Assisting in Month-end analysis and reporting, ensuring reliability and completeness of data in the GL and data warehouse:
7. Running preliminary analysis to identify key variances to the Sales plan: volume/ mix/ price/ deals/ etc;Analysis of Marketing and Fixed Selling costs;Liaising with the accounting team to ensure all accruals are timely and accurately recorded; preparing month-end journals as required;Helping with building various presentations to the wider business
8. Assisting in other ad hoc requests/ analysis/ financial calculations:New Business wins and range extensions;New product development;Marketing activities etc.
9. Making recommendations and driving through for results that improve the business processes and free up resources.
10. Performing assigned tasks in accordance with all Kraft Heinz Food Safety, Environmental, Health and Safety, and Ethical and Human Resources policies, programs and goals.
11. Upholding the Kraft Heinz values and to work in a way that contributes to the company’s vision
About you:
12. Bachelor Degree in Finance, business, commerce, and/or accounting
13. 2 to 3 years work experience that complements financial training
14. Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite: Excel (macros, indexmatch, vlookup etc) and Access;
15. Efficient in working with large datasets: identify issues, fix, transform, upload, present;
16. Excellent written and verbal skills
About us:
17. Hybrid Working – Flexibility around when and where you work.
18. Pay for Performance – industry leading variable compensation offerings tied to company and individual performance on top of a competitive base salary package.
19. Parental Leave – paid parental leave for primary AND secondary caregivers.
20. Leave Options – Purchased leave, volunteer leave and LiveWell leave programs to give you even more flexibility to plan your life and spend time on causes that matter.
21. Great Place to Work certification in Australia.
22. In House Training Programs
23. Corporate Discount Programs & Novated Leasing – Utilize a range of discount programs (gym membership, health insurance, banking) depending on location.
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Location(s)
Freshwater