Finance Business Partner

**About Us**

Endeavour Group was created in 2020 through the restructure and merger of the Woolworths Group drinks and hospitality businesses. With a strong track record of growth, combined these businesses form the leading customer franchise in drinks and hospitality in Australia.

United behind a common purpose of 'Creating a more sociable future together', we are a 28,000+ strong team with more than 1600 stores and 330 hotels nationally, including leading brands such as Dan Murphy's, BWS and ALH Hotels.

Endeavour Group has separated from Woolworths during the calendar year 2021 and is well-positioned as an ASX Top 50 Company. Join the team at an exciting time in their evolution
- **Flexible location - Melbourne or Sydney based**:

- **Support iconic Retail brands - BWS and Dan Murphy's**:

- **Provide value add insights and analysis that influence commercial decision making**:

- **Join a vibrant, dynamic, and supportive team culture**

**About Us**:
As a business we're excited about our future, and we want you to be an influential part of it. Our business is rapidly transforming retail as we know it and we need our best people to drive us forward with passion, precision and ingenuity. Our family of leading brands is well respected and highly visible throughout Australia with each of them commanding a leadership position in their respective category.

**The Opportunity**:
As the **Finance Business Partner - Commercial**, you'll work in our Merchandise Finance team, effectively partnering with the Wine Merchandise team to drive the business performance goals. As an experienced story teller and influencer, this role will partner with and influence the Merchandise Team on all commercial decision making. Using data lead insights, simple and clear storyboarding in a timely fashion will be key to your success. You will be joining a team of innovative high-performers who rely on collaboration and adaptability within a continuously evolving environment to achieve market leading outcomes. In this role you will also ensure constant alignment between multiple stakeholders, while proactively providing commercial support and guidance on key strategic initiatives & opportunities.

Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage the weekly and monthly performance reporting insights, including clear communication of key drivers
- Provide detailed analysis and recommendations on category pricing, ranging, promotional activities and supplier contracts
- Proactively communicate commercial impacts on past and future activities amongst stakeholders
- Develop initiatives to improve visibility and accountability of category Sales and Profit performance
- Support strategic and project analysis to drive improved returns on capital investments and business initiatives
- Proactively work with key stakeholders to optimise ways of working
- Own the P&L and associated commentary for the category
- Play a key role in the forecast and budget processes for the category
- Clear and effective communication across multiple groups of stakeholders

**Who we're looking for**:
You are an energetic customer centric finance professional, a commercial thinker, and a strong business partner that is able to liaise with all levels of management. You're someone who is genuinely passionate about interpreting high volumes of data to provide insights to the business, and you have the ability to be proactive and manage deadlines as well as think outside of the square to solve complex problems. You will have excellent attention to detail and most importantly are highly confident and capable with stakeholder engagement, and partnering with the business to provide key insights. You will also have the following:

- At least 8 years of relevant experience in finance or accounting (post Graduate roles)
- CA/CPA qualification;
- Advanced experience using financial systems in a commercial environment e.g. Excel, Powerpoint, SAP, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Advanced analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to navigate through a complex organisational structure and work effectively cross functionally
- Strong presentation and storyboarding skills
- Advanced time management and prioritisation skills
- Able to communicate complex financial information simplistically
- Ability to prioritise team efforts to support business requirements
- Desire for ongoing continuous improvement and process excellence
- Desire to be part of the exciting and energetic Drinks industry

**Grow with Endeavour Drinks**:
Endeavour Drinks comprises a diverse range of drinks businesses including BWS, Dan Murphy's, ALH and Pinnacle Drinks. We are focused on growing and transforming our businesses to meet the changing needs of customers and we're driven by a culture that puts our customers and team first. Our ambition is to connect everyone with a drinks experience they'll love.

As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care