Senior Finance Manager, Liquor Merchandise, Marketing & eCommerce

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.

About the role 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Finance Manager to lead the finance team supporting the Merchandise, Marketing and eCommerce teams for Coles Liquor. 

This role will see you work in partnership with the business unit General Managers and their leadership team to provide strategic commercial decision support and governance, ensuring business unit strategies and initiatives deliver annual budget targets, EBIT efficiencies and working capital improvements.

You will be responsible for driving the Liquor Transformation agenda as it impacts Commercial, Customer and Digital, with your stakeholders looking to you and your team to drive improvements in relevant commercial KPIs such as return on space, margin rate, waste and markdowns, availability and working capital optimisation, and support effective commercial decision-making on category roles, range reviews and initiatives. 

You will also;

• Lead and mentor a team of seven finance specialists responsible for providing ongoing strategic analysis, decision support, financial reporting, planning & forecasting, and financial transactional processing
• Drive improvements in trade planning, promotion effectiveness, and optimise layouts and range with a view to aligning to strategic objectives, driving sales, profit performance and achieving budget targets
• Support the business unit to deliver strategic commercial priorities and outcomes
• Establish and maintain a seamless weekly forecasting process to drive accountability and ownership of sales and profit performance to Merchandise, Marketing and eCommerce teams
• Influence and drive improvements in the end-to-end finance functions across key platforms

About you and your skills 

 
As a Senior Finance Manager, you’ll have extensive experience in commercial finance leadership roles, ideally within the liquor space or retail/FMCG. You will have experience in business transformation, keen to roll up your sleeves and dive deep into the strategy as we embark on bold transformations within Liquor. You’ll also be experienced in fact-driven, data-led storytelling with senior stakeholders to ensure outcomes are clearly understood, measurable, and change is communicated.

You’ll also have: 

• A diverse finance background covering Financial Control, Financial reporting, Planning & Analysis, and Commercial partnering
• Advanced leadership skills, with experience developing and managing high performing finance teams
• Experience driving organisational change and influencing key business partners
• Experience in strategic business planning and direction setting 
• CA/ CPA (or equivalent) with extensive post qualification experience
• MBA or equivalent desirable
   

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: 153087

Employment Type: Full time

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