Finance Business Partner, Coles Services
Coles Group
- Hawthorn East, VIC East Melbourne, VIC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide regular commercial updates on performance, outlook, risks & opportunities and progress on key initiatives across Coles Services Conduct reporting and communicate monthly and weekly performance with Merchandise Transformation leadership team and the business units
- Partner with operators to maintain effective cost control on key supermarket expenses through P&L management.
- Business case development for projects including capital request and other ad hoc projects
- Understand and analyse drivers of spend, as well as contract terms to identify opportunities for cost savings
- Educate and influence account owners and liaise with 3rd party suppliers as appropriate
- Validate the delivery of process-led and procurement-led productivity to realise cost savings, improve process and enhance customer experience
- Ability to simplify a complex financial story and communicate effectively to operators
- Demonstrated commercial acumen, with exposure to delivering successful outcomes in commercial environments
- Proven ability to interrogate data and financial systems to extract and manipulate data, and upload budgets and forecasts
- Efficient, TM1, SAP and advanced Excel skills to analyse and summarise high volumes of data. Proficient user of pivot tables, vlookups, sumifs.
- PowerPoint user, able to effectively present findings of deep dive analytics and monthly performance reviews
- CPA/CA qualification highly regarded