Financial Planning

Dogs, cats, budgies and everything in between - pets deserve the world. They make us want to be better humans. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to build the most engaged and passionate community of pets and pet parents across the world. And we’re looking for talented team mates who can help us do it.

Founded in Sydney, our team of 500+ pet obsessives span Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. We’ve scaled to become one of Australia's top five eCommerce companies and the no.1 online pet store. But we’re just getting started. Like a whippet who’s spotted their mate across the dog park, our growth is only going to accelerate, as we continue to disrupt the way that pet parents shop.

Excitingly, the pet industry is booming (as in $15 billion kind of booming) and online pet retail is set to grow exponentially in the next five years. So this is a unique career opportunity to be part of our epic growth story.

**The Opportunity**

The role will report directly to our VP of Commercial & Planning and the goal is to provide strategic financial insights, facilitate informed decision-making, and drive financial performance. You will do this through developing robust financial models, performing in-depth analyses on the shape of the P&L, and supporting budgeting and forecasting processes.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Market Analysis: Continuous analysis on the market, identifying emerging trends, customer preferences, and competition dynamics.
- Strategic Support and Decision Making: Manage financial models to perform scenario analysis to assess the impact of strategic decisions.
- Planning and Forecasting: Lead the operational aspects of the annual planning process, collaborating with the business and wider finance team to gather input and ensure alignment with strategic goals. Implement rolling forecasts that provide updated financial projections based on actual performance, macro conditions and customer behaviours.
- Financial Analysis and Reporting: Analysis on financial performance against plan and forecasts including identifying key drivers of variances and communicating findings to stakeholders, providing actionable insights for improvement.
- Continuous improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives to simplify planning and reporting processes

**The ideal toolbox**:

- Experience in an FP&A function with a strong understanding of revenue and operational drivers
- Experience working in eCom, retail, FMCG businesses
- Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into insights
- Great leadership skills and excellent stakeholder management, with the ability to influence senior leadership
- Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau, Google Looker Studio) and ERP systems (NetSuite, etc.).
- A proactive, commercially minded professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Strong transformation experience and ability to amplify and elevate FP&A processes
- CPA/CA/CMA qualified

**Juicy Perks**:

- Heaps of development opportunities - stretch projects, focus groups & secondments
- Flexible working environment
- Up to 50% employee discount
- Product sample giveaways
- Pawrental leave and wellbeing leave
- Team charity volunteer days
- Classpass subsidy

**Role location**

We believe that building connections and collaborating as Pet Circlers is super important. So this role is based in Sydney with a hybrid arrangement of 3 days per week in our pet friendly offices (your pet might love coming to the office even more than you). This could change in line with business requirements.

**Why Join?**

We reckon our mission to help the world Pet Better is an important one, but also an incredibly fun and rewarding one. Becoming a Pet Circler means you’re committed to help shape an entire industry - it’s pretty exciting stuff. Here’s what we stand for:
We’re better together

We operate with humble hearts and hungry minds

Pets matter; so pets and pet parents always have a seat at our table

We’re instinctively curious. Always

**Belong at Pet Circle