General Manager Finance - Hotels

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry.

• Lead & manage our Finance team, supporting our ALH (Hotels) business.
• ASX market leading retail liquor & hotels company.
• Excellent remuneration package & benefits.

Endeavour Group has been operating as a demerged, stand alone ASX company for three years. It is a unique business, with no direct peers in Australia. As Australia’s largest operator of retail liquor and hotels, among many other exciting businesses including wine and drinks production, we interact with numerous stakeholders including investors, governments, regulators and policymakers in many ways. We have bottle shops, pubs, accommodation and wineries stretching across nearly every community in Australia. We employ 30,000 people across diverse professions from retail and hospitality to viticulture and data science.

General Manager Finance - Hotel

ALH is a leader in the Hospitality industry with ~350 pubs across the country. ALH (Hotels) is undergoing a significant change and growth journey over the next 3-5 years. 

To help lead this change, we are seeking an experienced Finance leader, with deep strategic and commercial acumen, as well as strong leadership and influencing skills. As a key member of the Hotels leadership team and the Endeavour Finance Leadership Team, you will help influence and drive the overall strategy for the business, provide valuable commercial input and be a critical Business Partner.

The successful candidate will understand the role data and analytics play in adding value through forward looking analysis and insight across multiple performance drivers.    

Key operating priorities:

• Team leadership: Directly lead professional finance team of ~14 FTE. Leverage peer relationships with GMs of Finance for each of the Endeavour Drinks businesses (BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Pinnacle, Group) to ensure all of Endeavour Finance is aligned and coordinated in the performance of the Finance function overall, continuously deepening the value delivered to the business.
• Transformation: Play a leadership role in positioning the finance team as a strategic business partner by driving a focus on delivering value-adding insight and analytics to support decision making, and removing or automating redundant activity.
• Strategy: Partner with key stakeholders on the development of business strategy and the feasibility of strategic projects, including preparation of financial analysis / modelling and business cases
• Budget and performance management: Proactively lead the annual budget process as well as forecasts  and any other strategic planning requirements
• Monitoring performance against plan, establishing early warning signals to ensure that plans are met or that corrective actions are taken. Avoid surprises through proactive oversight and communication.
• Performance reporting: Deliver timely, insightful and accurate business performance reporting
• Ensure robust frameworks are in place for all operations and commercial reporting, with a focus on reporting improvements and automation where possible
• Drive and ensure strong commercial governance is embedded within the business
• Work with Format & Property teams on renewals, acquisitions, developments and divestments to optimise return on capital investments
• Lead portfolio management and network performance reviews 
• Financial Control: Work with the Financial control team to manage robust financial control framework
• Contribute to the review of processes, procedures and systems, driving alignment and continuous improvement across Endeavour.

Now let’s talk about you:
You are an authentic leader, with highly developed communication and influencing skills who engages easily at all levels.  A strong sense of purpose compliments your commercial acumen. Comfortable with leading through change, you have strong executive presence and intellectual acuity.  

• Degree qualified in financial discipline
• CA / CPA or equivalent + financial and management accounting experience
• Track record of progression in relevant professional roles
• Strong commercial acumen - able to translate business performance drivers into financial outcomes
• Experience partnering with senior business leaders
• Experience driving analytical insights
• People management in a high performance environment
• Experience working in a matrix organisation, collaborating with peers to deliver results
• Track record of driving productivity / efficiency improvement
• Retail sector /Hospitality/ products based business experience

The benefits 

• We offer flexible working in every sense
• An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
• A range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
• Multiple career development pathways 
   

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.