Manufacturing Finance Lead: Forecasting & Reporting

Dairy Best Victoria; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Dairy Best Victoria is seeking a skilled management accountant to join our Melbourne-based team. You will deliver monthly financial reports, assist with budgets and forecasts, and provide insights to drive improvements across our manufacturing operations.

You will partner with leadership to explain results, monitor variances, and support cost control and profitability initiatives. This role requires strong Excel skills and CA/CPA qualification is highly regarded.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience in a Management Accounting, Commercial Accounting or Finance Business Partnering role.
• Experience in manufacturing or inventory-based environment.
• Strong management reporting, forecasting and analysis skills.
• CPA or CA qualification is highly regarded.
• Experience with inventory analysis and costing is highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow reports
• Process monthly journals and general ledger reconciliations
• Analyse and explain financial variances
• Support continuous improvement of management reporting
• Ensure the integrity and accuracy of financial data
• Assist with annual budgets across multiple business entities
• Support ongoing forecasting and business performance modelling
• Monitor financial performance against budgets and forecasts
• Conduct job costing, cost analysis and profitability reporting
• Monitor labour costs and operational spend

Skills

Financial reporting

Budgets & forecasting

Management accounting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Costing

Excel

Education

CPA or CA qualification

Tools

Excel

Job description

Dairy Best Victoria is seeking a skilled management accountant to join our Melbourne-based team. You will deliver monthly financial reports, assist with budgets and forecasts, and provide insights to drive improvements across our manufacturing operations.

You will partner with leadership to explain results, monitor variances, and support cost control and profitability initiatives. This role requires strong Excel skills and CA/CPA qualification is highly regarded.