Regional Finance Business Partner - Sales | Global Retail Brand

• Globally recognised retail brand
• $130,000 - $140,000 + super + bonus
• Enjoy working in national and international teams

Our client is a globally recognised brand with innovative consumer products and a unique team!

With a global reporting line, you will be an end-to-end business partner, providing financial analysis and commercial decision support to multiple regions sales leadership team. You will build and execute management KPI reporting, drive trade spend and mix optimisation, challenge forecast assumptions and work alongside business stakeholders to maintain a high standard of financial control and integrity.

What will set you apart is your ability to see the trends behind the numbers, produce insights, identify business opportunities, and add value through your analysis and influence key stakeholders across the regions

The Position:

• Business Partner to the Sales Director for the Region in the daily work and in business review meetings with the Division Management. Being a sounding board as well as to challenge the Sales Directors actions and strategic plans from a finance perspective
• Prepare presentation material for Group Management and other stakeholders
• Data collection: Provide financial analysis of the operational performance during monthly and quarterly closings. Drive accuracy, consistency and quality of financial reporting
• Direct involvement in new growth projects within the Region and preparation of business cases
• Ongoing portfolio analysis (customer profitability/ product group profitability), ongoing efficiency focus (benchmark studies)
• Coordinate the budget & forecast processes, working closely with business division COs and others to secure consistency, quality, timing and transparency
• Analyse, develop and make recommendations for pricing and drive the profitability of the countries (decision support analytics)
• Ongoing working capital improvements focus, utilize financial engineering (factoring), past due improvements and credit risk management
• Identify and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders and other internal customers
• Built up stable and trusted relationships with the local finance manager and with the regional sales director
• Highlight ‘control’ in ‘controlling’ in order to protect the company’s reputation and to keep stakeholders out of trouble; guarantee a clean business

Your Profile - skills and experience:

• CA/CPA qualified
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Sales finance controlling/ FMCG/Retail
• Well-developed knowledge of common analysis tools and excellent knowledge of financial and reporting system including MS-Excel

Key Competencies include:

• Pro-active, responsive and ability to meet deadlines and deliver results with passion, accuracy and a sense of urgency.
• Enjoy working in national and international teams
• Flexible work schedule and a willingness to travel as needed, and work across different time zones
• High affinity for numbers and an entrepreneurial way of thinking and acting, as well as a high level of quality awareness and enjoyment of process- and solution-oriented work

Our clients environment is fast paced, dynamic and highly collaborative, so if you are eager to learn and enjoy working as part of a team to support business growth, then this can could be a fantastic career opportunity for you.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are encouraged to apply.
To apply please click apply or call Ryan McLoughlin on 03 8628 2111 for a confidential discussion.