Senior Commercial Analyst

CHEP; Manurewa; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Fully maintained vehicle

Bonus opportunities

Learning and development culture

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

CHEP New Zealand seeks a Senior Commercial Analyst - Supply Chain to act as the finance business partner for the NZ Supply Chain function. You will shape operational decisions, lead budgeting and forecasting, and deliver commercial insight across a complex network.

You will partner with supply chain leaders, build financial models and investment evaluations, and translate data into actionable performance insights that drive improved outcomes.

Qualifications

• CA, CPA or equivalent accounting qualification
• Strong commercial finance, FP&A or business partnering background
• Experience supporting operational leaders in a complex environment
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability skills
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis experience
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management ability

Responsibilities

• Leading budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning activities for Supply Chain
• Delivering insight into productivity, labour, transport, and network costs
• Developing financial models, commercial cases and investment evaluations
• Providing detailed performance analysis and variance commentary
• Supporting strategic projects
• Identifying opportunities to improve operational and financial performance
• Partnering with leaders to solve business challenges and support informed decision making

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modelling

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Stakeholder management

Commercial finance

FP&A

Education

CA/CPA

Equivalent qualification

Tools

Power BI

SAP

BW

Job description

As the Senior Commercial Analyst - Supply Chain, you'll be the primary Finance Business Partner to our Supply Chain function, working with the New Zealand Supply Chain Leadership Team and helping shape key operational and strategic decisions. Acting as the link between Finance and Operations, you'll provide commercial insight and financial leadership across a complex supply chain environment.

About the role

This role directly influences how our supply chain performs today and how it evolves for the future. We're looking for a commercially minded finance professional who thrives at the intersection of finance and operations.

Key responsibilities include:

Leading budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning activities for Supply Chain

Delivering insight into productivity, labour, transport, and network costs

Developing financial models, commercial cases and investment evaluations

Providing detailed performance analysis and variance commentary

Supporting strategic projects

Identifying opportunities to improve operational and financial performance

Partnering with leaders to solve business challenges and support informed decision making

What success looks like

In this role, you'll:

Build trusted relationships with Supply Chain leaders and become their first point of contact for financial guidance

Bring clarity to complex operational and financial information

Challenge thinking constructively and influence decision making through evidence based recommendations

Translate data into practical insights that improve business performance

Manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes with minimal supervision

Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement

About you

You'll be an experienced commercial finance professional who enjoys working closely with operational stakeholders and influencing business outcomes.

CA, CPA or equivalent accounting qualification

Strong commercial finance, FP&A or business partnering background

Experience supporting operational leaders in a complex environment

Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability skills

Strong budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis experience

Excellent communication and stakeholder management ability

Highly desirable

Supply chain, logistics, manufacturing or operations finance experience

Experience supporting capital projects and investment decisions

Exposure to Power BI & SAP and BW

Experience analysing operational cost drivers such as labour, transport and productivity

If you're looking for a role where you can apply commercial thinking, influence outcomes and make a tangible impact on business performance, we'd love to hear from you.

Please include a covering letter with your resume outlining how your skills, qualifications and experience address the above criteria. Applications may be reviewed as they are received, so don't delay.

In order for your application to be considered, you must have the right to work in New Zealand. We are unable to offer Immigration sponsorship for this role.

About CHEP, A Brambles Company

CHEP

is a global leader in supply chain solutions. Together with producers, manufacturers, retailers, and logistics partners, CHEP advances the smart and sustainable movement of goods across more than 60 countries.

Powered by its share, repair and reuse network of connected pallets, crates, and containers, CHEP helps businesses optimise their supply chains to reduce costs and minimise the environmental impact of their operations.

CHEP pairs its leadership in circularity, which helps tackle emissions, waste, and single-use packaging, with a focus on resilience, to build future-ready supply networks through data, scale and collaboration.

With its operational excellence trusted by the world’s top brands, CHEP primarily serves customers in the consumer staples (e.g. dry food, grocery, household products, health and personal care, fresh produce and beverage), retail, automotive and general manufacturing industries.

A part of the Brambles Group, CHEP manages ~347 million pallets and containers through a network of 750+ service centres, employing approximately 11,000 people worldwide with its largest operations in North America and Europe.

For more information, visitwww.chep.com.

Here in New Zealand, CHEP touches every stage of the Food Supply Chain; domestically from the farm to supermarket shelf and internationally our global capabilities support the delivery of New Zealand produce around the world.

CHEP New Zealand is an accredited Top Employer and offers a range of employee benefits including a competitive salary, fully maintained vehicle, bonus opportunities, a supportive learning and development culture and a wide range of opportunities to assist you in achieving your career aspirations.CHEP New Zealand, as part of Brambles, provides you unparalleled opportunities to advance and accelerate your career and is large enough to take you anywhere and small enough to make sure you get there. With a focus on career pyramids instead of ladders, we move our people up and across functions and companies to deepen their transferable skills and acquire broader business experience.

• Paid volunteer leave for those who wish to volunteer their services to a community organisation – 3 days per annum
• Reward and Recognition Program to celebrate outstanding achievements of our people through a number of different delivery methods
• Employee discounts with a range of partners
• Unparalleled opportunities to advance and accelerate your career
• Attractive options to purchase Brambles shares
• Our team boasts a friendly and fun culture that celebrates successes, with award winning engagement and enablement, and results achieved through collective intelligence, collaboration and teamwork.
• With a highly inclusive workplace rich in diversity, CHEP New Zealand celebrates the diversity of thought, backgrounds, style and working arrangements of our people to ensure that we reflect the communities and customers that we serve.

Join our team to be part of an international growth company with an advantaged and highly sustainable business model. You’ll be working for a company that is changing the way goods get to market. You’ll optimize 300,000 supply chains instead of just one. You’ll join an efficient and collaborative team who punches above its weight. You’ll be working for the good of humanity.