Finance Business Partner, eComm - Hawthorn East
We’ve been trusted to serve Aussie communities since 1914 and grown to become a top 30-listed on the ASX with 120,000 team members and a portfolio of iconic brands. At Coles Group, you’ll not only get to make a difference to millions of Aussie lives—you’ll also get to see your impact.
About the team
Finance makes it easier for us to win together as a business. Our team works side-by-side with every other team to help bring commercial thinking into what they do and make moves that support our strategic business decisions.
We offer good work-life balance, flexible working arrangements and excellent compensation benefits. We have an empowering and inclusive culture with open and effective management providing career stability.
About the Role
The Digital Product Finance team focuses on accelerating digital through partnering with Business Leaders to bring financial expertise and enable strategic decision making, our Online business is key to Coles’ future success and in this role, you will work at pace to support the strategic growth agenda and drive value creation. This is a rapidly growing area of the business and you will have the opportunity to work on invitate projects. You will also;
- Partner closely with senior business leaders in Digital Engineering, Data and Platforms teams to deeply understand the drives of their groups to drive efficiency and good commercial outcomes
- Working collaboratively with the broader FP&A and finance team to achieve financial objectives and encourage adherence to the general control environment
- Continuously working to achieve forecast accuracy
- Designing and implementing reporting processes for executive and leadership levels
- Contribute to efficient capital allocation and investment decision-making
About you and your skills
We are looking for a passionate Finance Business Partner that understands the value of harnessing strong commercial relationships, ideally you will have had exposure within digital but not essential. You will also;
- CA/CPA or similar business qualification or near with commercial awareness and business focus
- Experience in the Retail or FMCG sectors will be highly regarded, alternatively a big 4 or mid-tier environment
- FP&A experiecnce
- Proven experience in preparing, understanding and analysing financial information to identify business opportunities/challenges and recommend course of action
- Proven ability to challenge & influence key business stakeholders (finance and non-finance) to achieve best for business outcomes
- Experience of presenting financial information concisely which focuses on drawing out insight
- Experience of owning end-to-end planning process
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation with a focus on commercial partnering
- Highly effective communication skills, both verbal and written (email, Word, PowerPoint)
- Strong Excel and financial modelling skills
- System literacy; experience of developing dashboards in PowerBI or similar desirable
Take your next step into something bigger, apply now
With us it’s not about the discounts (although you do get those), it’s about joining a team where your wellbeing and professional development is invested in and celebrating your contributions is the norm. And because everyone leads unique lives, we offer flexible work including work from home, additional leave and parental leave entitlements.
We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that’s just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.
We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. Find out more in the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site.
Job ID: 114713
Employment Type: Full time
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