Financial Planning Analyst, Animal Health

**Financial Planning Analyst, Animal Health**
- Great opportunity to work with **a Global Animal Health Organisation**
- Exciting **Permanent Full-Time **opportunity based in** Macquarie Park**
- Use your **financial analytics and business partnering skills** to support **growth** in **AUS**
- ** Attractive Total Rewards Package **offered that covers **compensation, health, work life** and **career** **benefits**

Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making. We use state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation. This allows the organization to continue advancing medical innovation and improve lives.

**The Opportunity**

The primary purpose of the role is to support various financial planning, analysis, and management reporting activities and to provide wide range of finance business partner support to the various Business Units. Key success criteria of the role are to form partnership with business stakeholders and foster collaboration with rest of FP&A team to contribute value-add support in decision making and help achieve financial goals.

This role supports Australia, part of the Australia and New Zealand cluster in the Asia Pacific & South Africa (APSA) Region for company Animal Health.

**What You Will Do**
- Responsibilities include, however not limited to:_
- Demonstrate customer centricity, proactively seek to understand customer requirements and expectations to continuously enhance the support provided to the Business Units
- Liaise with local finance and BSC teams and manage consolidation, analysis, and reporting of monthly/quarterly/annual sales, margins, and expenses
- Analyse, seek feedback and prepare commentary on major variances to forecasts, budget & prior year actual results and assist in the understanding of key risks and opportunities
- Support business review and analyse business performance against key metrics and assist in the understanding of key risks and opportunities
- Support implementation of improvement initiatives around forecasting and reporting tools & systems, integration of systems, gross-to-net
- Collaborate and support Finance Business Partner with similar tasks during peak season
- Establish New Ways of Working through continuous review & improvement of processes, such as standardisation, simplification, and automation of time-intensive manual steps
- Help to enforce financial controls within the organization, including assurance of financial integrity and accuracy around the monthly close process
- Any other tasks, projects or activities as may be required by Finance Business Partner Australia

**What You Must Have**
- To be successful in this role, you will have:_
- Degree in Accounting/Finance; CPA is desirable
- Demonstrated solid (5+ years) working experience in a similar Financial Planning Analyst role
- Have experience &/or understanding on SAP; experience with Power BI is desirable
- Possess outstanding analytical skills
- Ability to provide technical expertise to support cross functional teams
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise
- Ability to think beyond numbers and combine data with strategy and financial insight
- Ability to influence stakeholders to meet deadlines & financial requirements within defined guidelines.
- Ability to build strong relationships with commercial teams coupled with excellent communication skills
- Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel

**What You Can Expect**
- ** Grow** **your** **career** within an **innovative**, **market leading Global Animal Health o**rganisation
- Fantastic opportunity to contribute to the **continuing growth & successes** of our Animal Health business
- ** Collaborate** with fellow **finance** colleagues in ANZ Cluster, as well as **cross functional **colleagues and leaders
- Attractive **Total Rewards Package** offered that covers **compensation, health, work life and career benefits**

Our Animal Health business is a trusted global leader in veterinary medicine, dedicated to preserving and improving health, well-being, and performance of animals and the people who care for them. We are a global team of professionals working together to make a positive difference in animal care and the world’s food supply and have a deep sense of responsibility towards our customers, consumers, animals, society, and our planet.

Through our commitment to The Science of Healthier Animals®, Our Animal Health business Animal Health offers veterinarians, farmers, pet owners and governments one of the widest ranges of veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines and health management solutions and services as well as an extensive suite of digitally connected identification, traceability, and monitoring products. We invest in dynamic and comprehensive R&D resources and a modern, global supply chain. We are present in more than 50 countries, while our produc