Finance Analyst

Job title : Finance Analyst
Location : Sydney
Job type : Contract or Temp
Salary : $140,000 + Suepr
Contact name : Laura Ruddlesden
Contact email : lruddlesden@sharpandcarter.com.au
Job reference : 1480675
About the Opportunity?
Working within a Global organisation that empowers and develops its employees. You will gain great commercial experience working closely within a team as a Financial Analyst reporting into the FP&A Manager. This role will require strong business partnering skills as you will be working closely with all levels of stakeholders. This is an exciting high growth company with great opportunity to develop and progress internally.

Key Responsibilities Include
(but are not limited to)

This role will work closely with FP&A Manager. Key responsibilities for the role include;    
  • Setting up month end full P&L and detailed sales analysis templates across all regions and categories and train users on using them including upskilling users on driver based analysis.
  • Review the key drivers and assumptions that we need for project or new product launch proposals and develop suite of templates for use in all projects with checks and balances and locked formulas with input cells – roll out to finance team and broader business.
  • Pick up the simplified reporting project to assist in clear gross profit and/ or contribution margin reporting by brand and market, and market by brand – with self service capability for business partners.
  • Review state of nation forecasting process data and identify similarities across the business.
  • Document key process and identify areas for improvement.
The successful applicant will have experience with some or all of the below;    
  • Strong Analytics tool building, driver based analysis. Price volume mix.
  • Be an advanced user of Power BI and Excel. 
  • A background within FMCG, Retail or Sales. 
  • Process improvements. 
  • Change management. 
  • Process simplification.
  • Identifying trends in information and thinking through solutions. 
  • Continuous improvement mindset – some of the projects we mentioned are about process improvement/automation.
How to apply 
To apply online, please click on the appropriate link below. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please contact Laura Ruddlesden on lruddlesden@sharpandcarter.com.au or on 0488 756 943.