Finance Business Partner - Liquor

We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and have grown to become a top 30-listed company on the ASX with a portfolio of iconic homegrown brands. At the heart of our continued success is over 115,000 team members working across the country, all contributing to bringing our customers smiles. You’ll not only get to see your work make a difference, you’ll be part of a team working together to help Australians eat and live better every day.

About the team

Our Finance team are a vital partner in every aspect of our business, providing commercial insights to drive our success and influence everything we do. With presence in every department, we analyse performance, and deliver actionable insights that shape our strategic decisions.

About the role

As the Finance Business Partner - Liquor, you'll lead weekly trade analysis, support strategic initiatives, and drive financial governance across planning, forecasting, and supplier income. Your key responsibilities will include:
 

• • Delivering insights into key trade & margin drivers
  • Proactively seeks to identify risk and opportunities on sales and margin, and supports and influences to mitigate risks and drive materialisation of opportunities
  • Influence business decision making with fact based insightful and innovative analysis
  • Ensure plans are in place to deliver the strategic objectives of the Business Unit & strategic initiatives
  • Drive insight and ROI analysis of investment business cases such as range reviews
  • Track key initiatives and promotions to ensure they are on target to delivered expected outcome
  • Supporting annual strategic plan and budget process
  • Driving the quarterly forecast process ensuring all risks and opportunities are understood and communicated
  • Identifying and implementing process and system improvements to enhance performance and delivery against objectives

About you and your skill

You’re a qualified finance professional with strong leadership, retail/FMCG experience, and a passion for influencing outcomes. Your analytical skills and ability to communicate complex insights make you a trusted business partner. You'll also have:

• Ideally CA, CPA or similar business qualification.
• Business partnering experience in a retail/FMCG environment desirable but not essential.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and build effective relationships.
• Strong storytelling skills, with the ability to present insights clearly and effectively.
• Proven experience in preparing, understanding and analysing financial information to identify business opportunities/challenges and recommend alternate actions.
• Proven ability to prepare, interpret, and analyse financial information to identify opportunities and risks, and recommend actionable outcomes.
• Adaptable and flexible working style, with the ability to respond effectively to changing stakeholder needs.
• Strong collaboration skills, with experience working as part of a team, sharing knowledge, and contributing to overall team performance.
• Highly motivated and outcome-focused, with a track record of driving initiatives through to completion and engaging stakeholders to ensure delivery.
• Strong time management and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively and continuously improve processes.

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
• Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
• Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
• Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
• Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
• Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
• Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.

About the recruitment process

We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that is just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe and respectful for our team. 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. For further information and additional contact details visit the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site or email inclusionrecruitment@coles.com.au

Job ID: 183342

Employment Type: Full time

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