Head of Finance - Commercial

Let’s create a more sociable future together

At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!

• Bring your passion and feel the energy
• Retail or FMCG experience highly desirable

The Head of Finance - Commercial will partner with Director of Merchandising Endeavour (Exco member) supporting Endeavour and retail Brand strategies with revenue of +$10Bn.

With a strong commercial growth and transformational mindset you will drive business performance through effective leadership, thought leadership and actionable insights. You will also provide strategic finance support to Endeavours Retail Media business, MixIn.  The role has 3 direct reports and total team size of 9 FTE's.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role

• Proactively deliver insightful analysis and commercial recommendations to the business
• Proactively manage, agree and communicate business Budget/Forecasts and any other strategic planning requirements (i.e. 5 year plan), monitoring category performance against plan, establishing early warning signals to ensure that plans are met or that corrective actions are taken. Avoid surprises through proactive oversight and communication.
• Provide strong cross functional leadership, ensuring Merch performance drivers are transparent and understood by FP&A, eCom, Marketing, Loyalty and Operations and that trading initiatives ultimately focus on holistic outcomes for Endeavour Retail.
• Partner with the Director of Merchandise to deliver the strategic agenda for Retail Trading and MixIn. Provide insights into investment decisions and benefits tracking to drive improved returns on investments and business initiatives 
• Providing strategic recommendations in line with Strategy to the Merchandise Executive team and Brand GM Finance/LT
• Partner with the GM Merchandise to operationalise revenue and earnings growth through commercial decision making
• Play the role of ‘commercial advisor’ in all category activities, including supplier negotiations and discussions. Advise on performance and opportunities in relation to long-term business initiatives. Ensure long term financial targets have relevant and sound strategic thinking
• Support promotions builds, ensuring optimised performance based on category strategy and playing the required role to achieve targets
• Work closely with finance peers, including other retail brand and group finance teams to achieve best practice and ensure consistent reporting and processes
• Provide leadership, coaching and mentoring to direct reports and across the broader Endeavour finance and commercial teams

Now let’s talk about you

• Minimum of 12+ years relevant experience with CA/CPA Qualification
• Previous management experience of multi-functional team and / or experience in the retail or FMCG sectors desirable
• Strong presentation and storyboarding skills and able to communicate complex financial information to a broad audience; able to make the complex simple
• Ability to prioritise team efforts to support business requirements
• Advanced experience using financial systems in a commercial environment e.g. Excel, PowerPoint,
• Advanced leadership, coaching, mentoring and development skills
• Advanced time management skills
• Advanced Advanced analytical and problem solving skills

The benefits are good too! 

• We offer flexible working in every sense
• An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
• Monthly meeting-free days 
• Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big.

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.  

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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