This role provides commercial support to the Head of Finance and Foodservice & Export team across the following main areas:
- Financial planning, budgeting and forecasting;
- Financial analysis and month-end reporting;
- Financial modelling, calculation of financial outcome under different scenarios;
- Process improvement and business insights
Responsibilities:
- Assisting in completion of monthly financial forecast/ budgeting cycle, including engaging with the key stakeholders to ensure the Sales Plan is accurately recorded in the financial system with the following key areas of focus:
- Mix: engaging with the Sales Team and Demand Planners to ensure volume/mix is correctly captured within distribution channels and product categories; providing insights to key variances versus the Budget and comparable periods;
- Pricing/COGS: ensuring all rates in the financial forecast are up to date and engaging with the relevant teams to action system corrections as required;
- Deals: working with the sales team to ensure all deals are loaded into the system and variances to the Budget are explained;
- Manually load any other variances into the system to align to the Sales Plan.
- Assisting in Month-end analysis and reporting, ensuring reliability and completeness of data in the GL and data warehouse:
- Running preliminary analysis to identify key variances to the Sales plan: volume/ mix/ price/ deals/ etc;
- Analysis of Marketing and Fixed Selling costs;
- Liaising with the accounting team to ensure all accruals are timely and accurately recorded; preparing month-end journals as required;
- Helping with building various presentations to the wider business
- Assisting in other ad hoc requests/ analysis/ financial calculations:
- New Business wins and range extensions;
- New product development;
- Marketing activities etc.
- Making recommendations and driving through for results that improve the business processes and free up resources.
- Performing assigned tasks in accordance with all Kraft Heinz Food Safety, Environmental, Health and Safety, and Ethical and Human Resources policies, programs and goals.
- Upholding the Kraft Heinz values and to work in a way that contributes to the company’s vision
About you:
- Bachelor Degree in Finance, business, commerce, and/or accounting
- 2 to 3 years work experience that complements financial training
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite: Excel (macros, indexmatch, vlookup etc) and Access;
- Efficient in working with large datasets: identify issues, fix, transform, upload, present;
- Excellent written and verbal skills
About us:
- Hybrid Working – Flexibility around when and where you work.
- Pay for Performance – industry leading variable compensation offerings tied to company and individual performance on top of a competitive base salary package.
- Parental Leave – paid parental leave for primary AND secondary caregivers.
- Leave Options – Purchased leave, volunteer leave and LiveWell leave programs to give you even more flexibility to plan your life and spend time on causes that matter.
- Great Place to Work certification in Australia.
- In House Training Programs
- Corporate Discount Programs & Novated Leasing – Utilize a range of discount programs (gym membership, health insurance, banking) depending on location.
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Location(s)Freshwater
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.