Commercial Finance & Strategy Manager

Sharp & Carter; Parramatta; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Bonus potential (15%)

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Sharp & Carter is partnering with a global supply chain and logistics business to appoint a Commercial Finance & Strategy Manager. You’ll lead the commercial finance behind new initiatives, report to the CFO, and work with project managers, FP&A, and senior leadership.

Your role focuses on sizing projects, building governance, and crafting business cases, with involvement in pricing and customer-facing presentations.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Finance Business Partner or Commercial Manager.
• Proven ability to build business cases from scratch with financial modelling.
• Experience presenting to senior internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Size project value from start to post-execution analysis.
• Track project delivery and decide to pursue, pause, or stop.
• Write and own business cases for new opportunities.
• Collaborate with the new business team on pricing and governance.
• Develop templates for faster, consistent business cases.
• Present findings to customers and leadership teams.

Skills

Senior Finance Partner

Commercial Manager

Financial Modelling

Stakeholder Communication

Education

CA/CPA qualification

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

About the Company

Sharp & Carter is partnering with a multi-billion dollar global supply chain and logistics business to appoint a Commercial Finance & Strategy Manager. The business operates across multiple countries and works with some of the world’s best-known brands. Locally, it’s a stable, well-established organisation with low staff turnover and a strong reputation for ongoing investment in its people. With new business growing across its supply chain network, it’s an exciting time to join and help shape what comes next.

About the Role

As the business invests in project initiatives and new business growth, this new role has been created to lead the commercial finance behind them. You’ll report directly to the CFO and work closely with project managers, FP&A, the new business team and the leadership team. It’s an individual contributor role, so your time goes into analysis and commercial work.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with project managers to size the value of projects and initiatives from commencement through to execution and post-execution analysis.
• Tracking what each project delivers and building a clear process for what to pursue, pause or stop.
• Writing, testing and owning business cases for new business opportunities.
• Partnering with the new business team on pricing.
• Building templates so future business cases are quicker and more consistent.
• Packaging savings and performance results for customers, including regular review sessions and presentations with customers.
• Attending new business meetings and presenting to customer commercial managers and directors.
• Lifting commercial thinking across the finance team and with project managers.
• In your first three months, you’ll focus on savings and set up the governance around them. By six months, you’ll be working across new business and building out business case templates.

About You

You’re a commercially minded finance professional who builds business cases yourself, from the raw numbers through to the final presentation. You’re comfortable when priorities change quickly, and you’ll be curious to find answers and solutions and put them into action.

You will bring:

• Experience as a Senior Finance Business Partner or Commercial Manager, or in a similar commercial finance role.
• A track record of building business cases from scratch, including financial modelling and analysis.
• Confidence presenting to senior internal and external stakeholders.
• The ability to influence people who don’t report to you.
• Comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to switch between priorities quickly.
• Logistics, transport, distribution or supply chain experience is highly regarded. Similar route- or site-based industries will also be considered, such as waste management, FMCG or industrial.
• CA/CPA qualification advantageous.

What’s on Offer

• $180,000–$200,000 base + superannuation + 15% bonus (experience and selection criteria dependent).
• A newly created role where you’ll shape how savings and new business cases are done.
• A direct reporting line to the CFO and regular exposure to the SLT/ELT and senior stakeholders externally.
• Deal-level work on new business with major customers.
• A stable business with a strong culture and low turnover.
• Hybrid working: three days in the office and two from home, after an initial induction period on site.