Finance Business Partner

5 days ago

Hawthorn East, Australia Coles Group Full time

We’ve been trusted to serve Aussie communities since 1914 and grown to become a top 30-listed on the ASX with 120,000 team members and a portfolio of iconic brands. At Coles Group, you’ll not only get to make a difference to millions of Aussie lives—you’ll also get to see your impact.

**About the team**:
Finance makes it easier for us to win together as a business. Our team works side-by-side with every other team to help bring commercial thinking into what they do and make moves that support our strategic business decisions.

We offer good work-life balance, flexible working arrangements and excellent compensation benefits. We have an empowering and inclusive culture with open and effective management providing career stability.

**About the role**:
We are seeking a talented, passionate and commercially focused Finance Business Partner - Smarter Profit to support the Finance Manager.

You’ll be responsible for:

- Providing fact-based insight and commentary for BAU performance
- Generating analytics and analyse information to provide actionable insight to stakeholders to drive improved commercial decisions
- Influencing business partner decision making with fact based insightful and innovative analysis
- Supporting the governance surrounding business processes and ensure an appropriate audit trail is maintained. Drive objectives through ensuring business priorities and day to day processes are delivered
- Completing business cases for any new business initiatives, track cost and benefits and undertake PIRs where required
- Setting budgets and forecasts and carry out monthly review of results
- Identifying and defining process & system improvements to enhance ability to deliver on objectives
- Supporting review and approval of new and existing contracts

**About you and your skills**:
As Finance Business Partner, you possess excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to hold stakeholders and the business to account for delivering performance objectives.

You’ll have a strong commercial acumen, be a passionate, people focused and strategically driven professional with demonstrated experience leading large finance teams. And you thrive on a challenge

Ideally, you’d also have:

- Finance experience in a retail/FMCG environment desirable but not essential
- Experience of working with numerous stakeholders simultaneously and influencing non-financial stakeholders
- Proven experience in preparing, understanding and analysing financial information to identify business opportunities/challenges and recommend alternate actions
- Proven ability to challenge & influence key business stakeholders to develop ‘win win’ solutions
- Previous experience in managing priorities and expectations
- Previous experiences of working in a team environment
- Strong data analysis and modelling skills (converting information into commercial insights)
- Ideally CA, CPA or similar business qualification
- TM1 and/or Power BI experience preferable
- Communication skills, both verbal and written

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With us it’s not about the discounts (although you do get those), it’s about joining a team where your wellbeing and professional development is invested in and celebrating your contributions is the norm. And because everyone leads unique lives, we offer flexible work including work from home, additional leave and parental leave entitlements.

**Safer together**:
Job ID: 66218

Employment Type: Full time

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