Category Finance Manager

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
• A dd value to the business by ensuring cross-functional team receive s timely information and understand its implication to s upport 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 busines s reporting and understanding

Other

• Perform assigned tasks in accordance with all Kraft Heinz Food Safety, Environmental, Health and Safety, and Ethical and Human Resourc es 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 analyti cal 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 .