Finance Business Partner - Merchandise

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.

<h3>About the role</h3>

As the Finance Business Partner - Merchandise, you will be partnering across commercial teams to drive sales, margin and costs targets. You will also support stakeholders through financial insight, challenging assumptions, supporting strategic and operational decision making. You will work with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to deliver high quality analysis, business cases, forecasting accuracy and scenario modelling, ensuring the business has a clarity of performance, risks and opportunities. Your key responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain robust processes to measure, track and report the financial and operational benefits of commercial initiatives.
• Evaluate performance against targets, providing actionable insights and clear recommendations to influence future commercial strategy.
• Support trade planning through financial modelling, scenario analysis and investment evaluation to optimise decision making.
• Deliver timely, relevant and balanced decision support across trading and commercial priorities, challenging assumptions, forecasts and spend where required.
• Drive insight and ROI analysis for transformational projects and business cases
• Lead monthly performance reporting, including review of actuals, budgets and forecasts, and translate outcomes into meaningful actions.
• Partner with senior leaders to align on strategic initiatives and ensure consistent financial assumptions across teams.
• Use market trends, commercial data and financial expertise to shape strategy, develop corporate plan targets and provide high value recommendations.

<h3>About you and your skills</h3>

You are a confident Finance Business Partner with strong trade background and a passion for turning financial information into clear, actionable insights. Your strength lies in building relationships, challenging constructively, and ensuring commercial and financial outcomes align. You will bring:

• Proven experience as a Finance Business Partner, ideally in merchandise, commercial or product driven environments.
• Strong financial analysis, modelling and forecasting capability with the ability to translate complex data into clear business insights.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to support, influence and challenge senior leaders to achieve commercial outcomes.
• A collaborative mindset, working effectively across multiple teams and functions.
• Strong judgement and the ability to balance analytical detail with commercial priorities.
• A continuous improvement lens, with the drive to enhance reporting, processes and commercial understanding.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities while delivering timely, high-quality insights and recommendations.

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: 179604

Employment Type: Full time

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