Sales Finance Manager, IPC ANZ

People have looked to Kimberly-Clark brands for more than 150 years and today we're proud to help over a billion people around the world cope, laugh, love and live every day. From the best nappies and baby wipes to the softest tissues, to the best supplies for business, we are constantly searching for new ways to make life better for our consumers, our customers and our planet.

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About the Opportunity:

You're not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we're out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you'll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

Purpose:

Reporting to the Commercial Finance Manager, the role is responsible for business partnering the Australian Sales team, ensuring controls of trade spend are performed and tracking the Sales performance of the ANZ – IPC business against benchmarks.

Your focus is to drive business in year performance, help in the development of short to mid-term strategy, and help drive in year execution with the sales team.

You will work as a member of the Sales Leadership team, working very closely with the IPC Sales Director. The role has one direct report.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business partner with the ANZ Sales Director on decision support and build strong relationships with their Australian customer team.
• Deliver robust monthly Sales IBP forecasts, reflecting current & emerging business impacts. Review and challenge monthly customer forecasts in pre-demand reviews ensuring robust numbers are reviewed at the monthly Demand Review meeting. Communicate the monthly drivers of movement in the Australian net sales forecast. Work with the Sales team to develop incremental forecast opportunities.
• Conduct the month end control processes on Trade Spend – ensuring that trade spend is accurately recorded.
• Work on the development of Customer Specific Annual Business Plans. Develop, review and track joint business plans made between KCA and external customers to ensure that opportunities are mutually beneficial and drive the targeted behaviours and financial outcomes. 
• Conduct pre and post promotional evaluation. Analyse the expected outcome of planned promotional and provide insights into drivers of promotional results.
• Monitor monthly Sales results, providing the CFO with weekly updates on monthly sales projection against target and forecast. Monitor and report monthly trade spend against targets and ensure correct accrual bookings at month end.
• Support the other Finance functions through analysis support on ad-hoc business projects.
• Prepare ad-hoc analysis supporting the Sales Leadership team decisions
• Continuously challenge and improve existing business and finance processes.
• Perform Finance training for Sales managers – ensure that the Sales team has strong financial capability, understand the drivers of profitability in the business and can access and interpret financial data.

About You:

You're driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fuelled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

Required Experience:

• A relevant degree qualification in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration and CA or CPA qualified.
• Experience working in FMCG will be highly regarded.
• Demonstrated experience in Senior Commercial roles displaying well developed analytical, decision making and influencing skills.
• You are an energetic, forward-thinking and creative individual with high ethical standards.
• A passion for people development with excellent communication skills.

What's On Offer

Our Kimberly-Clark employees receive a competitive salary and incentives as well as access to a fantastic range of benefits including superannuation, career development opportunities, free health & well-being activities, volunteering leave and much more.

About You:

You're driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fuelled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

To Be Considered:

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and will be in contact with additional information accordingly.

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