Global Finance Reporting Lead

Pladis; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

pladis seeks a Global Finance Reporting Lead to oversee end-to-end financial operations across Godiva and Global Brands, driving standardized reporting, evaluating business cases, and coordinating planning from Net Sales to EBITDA. You will lead commercial finance processes, including innovation and pricing architecture, and provide product performance visibility.

Reporting to the Vice President Finance, Commercial and GODIVA, you will prepare monthly regional and consolidated reports, manage HQ

Qualifications

• FP&A and Commercial Finance experience
• Qualified Accountant with 8+ years PQ experience
• Financial Accounting background with working capital and cash flow analysis
• High end analytical and interrogation skills
• Proven leadership with cross-functional relationships
• Robust financial analysis including planning and forecasting
• Excellent verbal and written communication of financial analysis
• Conscientious with attention to detail and broad perspective
• Ability to plan optimally and work independently
• Excel and PowerPoint proficiency
• Financial modelling and scenario evaluation

Responsibilities

Skills

FP&A experience

Commercial Finance

Leadership

Analytical skills

Communication skills

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Financial modelling

Forecasting

Interrogation skills

Working with stakeholders

Education

Qualified Accountant (CA/CPA)

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you. As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits. To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

What will this role achieve?

The Global Finance Reporting Lead is responsible for 3 areas Overseeing Godiva’s end-to-end financial operations and helping ensure that effective business decisions are made. This includes understanding and reporting on business performance to drive improvements and standardization, evaluating project business cases, and coordinating Godiva’s planning and forecasting processes from Net Sales to EBITDA. Leading commercial finance processes for Godiva and Global Brands, including innovation and pricing architecture. This role provides clear visibility into product performance by preparing monthly regional and consolidated reports for the Godiva and Global Commercial Leadership Teams. Managing two Global HQ cost centers, including monitoring monthly spending, reporting financial results, and initiating the recharge process to regional teams in a fair and transparent manner. This position reports to the Vice President Finance, Commercial and GODIVA and the role holder will have responsibility for delivering key forecasting, reporting and commercial activities. Our remit covers all Godiva and other pladis regions and we deal with many senior stakeholders. This role is aimed at developing, coordinating, and ensuring quality reporting and insightful financial and commercial analysis across the business to give us a deep understanding of performance and be able to give insight to help drive the business forward.

Bring your experience.

Essential

• FP&A , Commercial Finance experience
• Qualified Accountant with 8+ years PQ experience
• Financial Accounting background with strong understanding & proven experience of working capital and cash flow analysis
• High end analytical & interrogation skills
• Proven leadership skills, with the gravitas to build solid, successful working relationships cross functionally
• Track record of providing robust and informative financial analysis, including planning and forecasting
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to make financial analysis easily understood
• Highly conscientious with good attention to detail, coupled with a broad perspective
• Ability to plan optimally and work under own initiative
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Financial modelling, scenario evaluation and report development

Desirable

• Strong technical accounting skills (CA background)
• FMCG experience
• Working across global organisations and working with different cultures / languages.
• Experience of business change projects

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law. We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business. We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.