Management Reporting & Planning Analyst

Beerenberg; Hahndorf; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Beerenberg is seeking a Management Reporting & Planning Analyst to strengthen reporting, budgeting and forecasting across our Finance team. You’ll help maximise ERP value with Business Central and Jet Reports, rebuild costing tools and drive efficient, controlled financial processes.

The role focuses on turning data into accurate insights, improving governance, and delivering reliable financial planning to support Go-to-market and production decisions at Beerenberg.

Qualifications

• Experience improving management reporting and financial models.
• Strong budgeting and forecasting process experience.
• Advanced Excel, complex spreadsheets, and reconciliations.
• Familiar with ERP systems and reporting tools such as Business Central, Jet Reports, Jet Hub.

Responsibilities

• Transform management reporting by redeveloping monthly reports and cost centre insights.
• Improve ERP reporting capability and leverage Jet Reports/Jet Hub.
• Strengthen budgeting and forecasting processes with new templates.
• Provide costing insights for product costing and commercial decision-making.
• Develop robust financial controls and reconciliation frameworks.
• Drive automation and continuous improvement in Finance processes.

Skills

Management reporting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial modelling

Excel

Stakeholder communication

Education

CA or CPA qualification

Tools

Business Central

Jet Reports

Jet Hub

Job description

Feel satisfaction in turning numbers into stories? Love improving systems, processes and ways of working? Enjoy working with people as much as working with data?

Same.

You might have the secret sauce we're looking for.

We're on the lookout for a Management Reporting & Planning Analyst who understands that strong financial processes are about more than just numbers. As part of our Finance team, you'll play a key role in strengthening reporting, budgeting, forecasting and reconciliation processes following the implementation of our new ERP system, helping ensure accurate insights and informed business decisions across Beerenberg.

Want to know more about being a Beerenberg Management Reporting & Planning Analyst? Here's what it says on the jar:

• You'll transform our management reporting, redeveloping monthly reporting and cost centre insights that help leaders make informed business decisions.
• You'll help maximise the value of our ERP investment, improving reporting capability through Business Central, Jet Reports and Jet Hub.
• You'll strengthen budgeting and forecasting processes, rebuilding models and templates to support effective financial planning and analysis.
• You'll provide valuable costing insights, supporting new product costing and developing tools that improve commercial decision-making.
• You'll build robust financial controls, redeveloping reconciliation frameworks and processes that improve accuracy, governance and accountability.
• You'll drive automation and process improvement, simplifying manual tasks and creating more efficient ways of working across Finance.

Now, for your own ingredients list. You’ll be the right person for this role if you:

• Hold a CA or CPA qualification or be well on your way to achieving one.
• Bring proven experience improving management reporting, financial models and finance processes, ideally within a manufacturing, operations or FMCG environment.
• Know your way around complex spreadsheets, financial modelling and reconciliations, with strong Excel capability and experience using ERP and reporting systems. Familiar with Business Central or Jet Reports? Even better.
• Have a solid understanding of management accounting, balance sheet reconciliations, cash flow, inventory accounting and reporting. Product costing experience will put you ahead of the pack.
• Enjoy untangling complex or inefficient processes, identifying a better way of doing things and turning ideas into practical, sustainable solutions.
• Communicate confidently with stakeholders across the business, balancing competing priorities while keeping things moving.
• Take ownership, thrive on continuous improvement and get genuine satisfaction from making finance processes simpler, smarter and more effective.

"Sounds good, but what makes working at Beerenberg so sweet?"

At Beerenberg, we're a family business through and through (have been since we used Grandma's pan to make our very first batch of strawberry jam!) and we firmly believe that a happy team means happy customers.

We've spent decades perfecting the recipe for workplace satisfaction and we're proud to say a number of Beerenberg team members have been with us for decades - you might even recognise some of their names that feature on our jars!

If we could bottle the thing that makes Beerenberg great, our team would be the secret sauce. We'd love to have you join the mix.

Please note that applications may close before the advertised closing date if we find the right candidate, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.