Finance Business Partner

**Description**:

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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 Supply Chain team. 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 commercial insights to help drive informed decision making in the Supply Chain team.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Manage all manufacturing and logistics related month end reporting, quarterly forecasting, cost analysis and annual budgets for setting standard costs for raw materials, analysing cost centres, analysing manufacturing variances, stock value projections and warehouse and transport costs
- Prepare and report on month end financial results for all operations and manufacturing areas of the business, including investigating and reconciling cost of goods sold
- Provide Supply Planner with analysis of stock at risk to drive initiatives to clear with Sales & Marketing
- Prepare analysis of variances to budget/forecast for supply chain and logistics areas and investigate material differences while suggesting improvements
- Partner with the Supply Planner in the documentation and monitoring of inventory policies for finished goods, raw & packaging materials
- Work with the supply team to ensure compliance with policies pertaining to inventory by reviewing stock balances and supporting stocktakes including verification of stock adjustments
- Work closely with our Tea Supply Chain team to understand & analyse the YOY movements in our tea costs annually
- Build our local tea standard costs, taking commodity and currency movements into consideration as well as inbound freight & duty, and local overhead recovery

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- Minimum of 3 years experience of Finance Business Partnering experience
- Supply chain accounting and product costing experience is essential
- CPA and Tertiary qualified in Finance/Accounting
- Experience in end-to end partnering with the ability to influence and challenge to drive key objectives while working collaboratively cross functionally
- Excellent communicator with the ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels
- Strong analytical skills and ability to identify and investigate financial issues in complex business situations
- Advanced excel skills including V Look Up, Pivot Tables and Macros and exposure to ERP systems

**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 & inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do impactful work together. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, nationality, family or parental status, disability, age or any other status protected by law and are dedicated to driving and fostering diversity across our workplace.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act. A reasonable adjustment is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity.