Finance Business Partner

3 months ago

Rowville, Australia Twinings Full time

**Description**:

- Great People Work Here. _

Twinings & Co has a proud history spanning over 300 years and operates on a global scale. With strong brand positioning we are viewed as a market leader in our field. The Australian operations continue to enjoy a positive growth trajectory. We are a high performing business that is focused on employing the best talent in the market to deliver on the business’ clear vision for success.

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Finance team as a Finance Business Partner for the Sales & Marketing teams. Reporting to the Head of Finance Business Partnering, this role will play a pivotal role in providing proactive financial support, building financial capability and deliver insights for the commercial team. This role will also play a key role in executing the 0-18 month strategic plan.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Partner with the Sales, Marketing & Revenue management teams to deliver key business drivers - identifying value adding opportunities from a finance lens
- Advise and support the commercial business on financial decision-making
- Perform a key role in understanding period results by investigating sales variances and calculating and investigating Price, Volume and Mix variances to budget/ forecast
- Review and identify variance drivers; forecast to forecast, actuals vs forecast, prior year & budget/target including insightful commentary
- Lead the Demand Review meetings in partnership with the Demand team to improve forecasting accuracy
- Improve Commercial capability of Sales and Marketing teams through periodic training
- Model opportunities and/or risks to the plan with the Commercial team, and present recommendations to bridge gaps/explore opportunities in performance at the Demand Review
- Validation of the financial plan over the 0-18-month horizon including market/category projection into financials
- Help translate the numbers into a compelling story and build commercial slide decks that articulates the drivers of business performance
- Drive the quarterly forecasting and annual budget process
- Ensure Brand & Customer P&Ls are robust, reviewing them with the Sales & Marketing teams regularly
- Monitor brand profitability with a category & consumer lens to ensure correct investment decisions are being made
- Participate and/or lead Commercial projects as required to provide financial rigor and robust assumptions
- Responsible for Month end commentary, including robust commentary as to drivers of variances including Price/Volume/Mix analysis. Ensure results are finalised within three working days of the month end:

- Preparation of journals and accruals as required
- Quality and insightful commentary
- Identification of continuous improvement opportunities in reporting and commentary
- Provide periodic reviews on SKU profitability in Portfolio Management Review meeting
- Perform Super User role within Commercial Team for ERP & TPM systems, providing training and ad hoc support to Sales & Marketing Teams to extract information on Customer and/or Brand financials

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- Minimum of 3 years experience in Finance Business Partnering
- CPA and Tertiary qualified in Finance/Accounting
- Experience in end-to end partnering with the ability to influence, challenge and coach the commercial team to drive key objectives
- Strong communication skills with the ability to build stakeholder rapport and work collaboratively cross functionally
- Strong analytical skills and ability to identify and investigate financial issues in complex business situations
- Extensive experience in business planning, reporting and forecasting in line with cyclical activities
- Commercially minded - Pragmatic, resilient and shows initiative in pre-empting issues and resolving challenges independently
- Advanced excel skills including V Look Up, Pivot Tables and Macros

**About Twinings**:
Twinings has become one of the world’s most loved tea companies over its 300-year history because we never stop learning, never stop experimenting and never stop inventing. We are passionate about tea from bud to cup and have been working with some of our tea estates around the world since the early 18th Century.

More than 300 years later, the passion for tea is still here - and so are we We still sell tea from Thomas's shop, and we still work hard to bring the most exciting new blends to tea lovers around the world. Now, we have over 500 varieties and our teas are cherished all over the world. Our expert master blenders taste more than 3,000 cups of tea every week. So you can be sure the next cup you taste will be every bit as good as the one yesterday or the day before.

**How we feel about Diversity & Inclusion**

TwiningsOvo is committed to bringing together individuals from different backgrounds and perspectives, providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We strive to create a diverse & inclusi

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