Finance Business Partner - Transport

We’ve been trusted to serve Aussie communities since 1914 and grown to become a top 30-listed on the ASX with over 115,000 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

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 a Finance Business Partner - Transport, you’ll play a critical role in driving strategic and operational outcomes through meaningful financial insight. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to influence decisions, improve performance, and support key initiatives across the transport function.

Key focus areas include:

• Partnering with stakeholders to deliver actionable financial insights and support decision-making.
• Challenging and influencing outcomes using data-driven analysis.
• Leading planning, forecasting, and reporting processes for Coles Transport
• Supporting contract management and procurement from a finance perspective
• Preparing business cases and benefit reviews to enable continuous improvement
• Ensure risks (financial and non-financial) are clearly articulated and addressed in decision making
• Partnering with the stakeholders (finance and non-finance) to drive positive change and enhance information provided to senior stakeholders to support the transport agenda

<h3>About You and Your Skills<h3>

You’re a proactive finance professional who thrives on collaboration and driving value through insight. You bring a strong commercial lens and the ability to influence across all levels of the business.

You’ll bring:

• CA or CPA qualified, ideally Big 4/Mid-tier trained
• Experience in supply chain or retail environments (preferred), with a focus on partnering for impact
• Ability to communicate complex financial issues to a broad audience.
• Strong commercial acumen and analytical skills to drive performance and improvement.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, influencing, and business partnering skills.
• Experience of managing largre projects and creating valuable impact

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: 166954

Employment Type: Full time

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