Category Finance Manager

Kraft Heinz Company; United Kingdom; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Hybrid work model

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Kraft Heinz in Melbourne's Southbank is seeking a Category Finance Manager to lead financial planning and performance analysis for the cluster. You will partner with Sales and Marketing to optimize the P&L and drive value through cost control, pricing and portfolio initiatives, including new product development.

The role requires a strong accounting/finance background, FMCG experience, and advanced Excel/BI skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of FMCG finance experience
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance or numerical discipline
• CA/CPA desirable

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyse actual and forecasted performance with variance analysis
• Vet financials for customer-facing opportunities and trade spend issues
• Own and gatekeeper cluster P&L; drive plans to optimise results and cost control
• Support marketing heads in NPD and portfolio initiatives; run cluster WIP
• Provide timely information to cross-functional teams to aid decisions
• Support monthly performance reporting and forecasting against plan/prior year
• Prepare inputs for Strategic Plan and Annual Operating Plan
• Develop business cases for new products and renovations

Skills

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

Analytical skills

Financial acumen

Business partnering

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance

CA/CPA desirable

Tools

Tableau

Demantra

JDA

SAP

IRi tools (Temple/UNIFY)

Quantium

Job description

Job Description

Category Finance Manager

• Opportunity to grow your career with Kraft Heinz!
• Flexible work arrangement - 3 days in office, 2 days remote
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment

Kickstart Your Career with Kraft Heinz!

Are you looking to grow your career in Finance? Do you want to join a dynamic team with a proven track record of internal growth and career advancement opportunities? We have an exciting permanent opportunity for a Category Finance Manager to join our Finance team, based in Southbank.

Key position responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Delivering the Year

• Preparing and analysing actual and forecasted performance using variance analysis to arrive at root causes and action plans
• Work cross-functionally with Sales and Trade Finance to vet financials of customer-facing opportunities and assess trade spend issues
• Act as the gatekeeper of the cluster P&L by challenging the sales team to optimize financial results and paybacks, develop and execute plans to control supply chain losses, costing analysis, and oversee portfolio initiatives such as new product development projects
• Own and support the marketing heads of cluster to drive the P&L including in NPD building business cases, running Cluster WIP and delivering the innovation pipeline
• Add value to the business by ensuring cross-functional team receives timely information and understand its implication to support great business decisions

Corporate Reporting

• Support the Monthly Performance Reporting, ensuring that business drivers of cluster performance vs plan and prior year are clearly understood and communicated to key stakeholders using Price Volume Mix analysis
• Support the monthly forecasting process ensuring that forecasts loaded by the ANZ sales team at cluster/category level are sensible vs. plan and prior periods
• Support the annual budget process and presentation for the portfolio

Planning the Future

• Preparing inputs for and analysing financial forecast, Strategic Plan and Annual Operating Plan including zero based budgeting
• Own the business cases for new products and renovation/innovation providing a financial view and coordinating inputs across the functions
• Work cross-functionally with Marketing in development of innovation P&Ls
• Work cross-functionally with Operations to enable complete business reporting and understanding

Other

• Perform assigned tasks in accordance with all Kraft Heinz Food Safety, Environmental, Health and Safety, and Ethical and Human Resources policies, programs and goals
• Uphold the Kraft Heinz values and to work in a way that contributes to the company's vision

What you'll bring

• Advanced computer skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Knowledge of Access highly regarded
• Systems knowledge such as Tableau, Demantra, JDA, SAP, IRi tools (i.e. Temple, UNIFY), Quantium highly regarded
• 5+ year's work experience that compliments financial training, experience in FCMG is desirable
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting / Finance or other numerical discipline
• CA/CPA is desirable
• Passionate and driven about delivering results
• Strong analytical skills and financial acumen to assess data and arrive at root cause, with ability to succinctly explain key drivers to senior audience
• Ability to business partner with head of clusters to drive both the long term portfolio evolution and short term delivery of the P&L
• Ability to think strategically about data and translate this thinking into the "so what"
• Problem-solving mentality with ability to navigate a high pace environment

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a global food company with a rich history and iconic brands
• Collaborate with a talented team and contribute to our company's vision
• Develop your skills and expertise in a dynamic and supportive environment

Ready to make an Impact?

If you're a Finance professional, a collaborative team player, and passionate about delivering value, we want to hear from you. We will review applications on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close this job posting at any time.

Location(s)

Freshwater

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.