Senior Finance Analyst - FP&A

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 
• One of the most sort after positions in the FP&A space
• We have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals.

Sitting within our Hotels business unit, the Senior Finance Analyst - FP&A will play an integral role in the annual budget process and monthly forecast cycles, whilst tracking and analysing performance, and maintaining the integrity of the financial data that the business uses to make key commercial and operational decisions.

Sound good? Read on.

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

• Improve team ways of working by introducing innovative analysis, systems efficiencies, improving processes and providing constructive challenges to all areas.
• Deliver insightful analysis and commercial recommendations including ownership of the monthly Hotels performance pack, and input into Endeavour reporting cycle (including Hotels KPI Dashboards, etc).
• Work with FP&A Finance Manager and the wider finance team to ensure consistent rhythm in place for weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly deliverables.
• Support the consolidation of daily/weekly reporting and monthly forecast, with a focus on sales and labour, and associated metrics, with an emphasis on data integrity.
• Assessment of risks and opportunities against financial targets and provide recommendations for mitigating actions.
• Provide leadership in financial control with management of month end close, proposing relevant month end journals and coordination with Hotels Management Accounting Teams.
• Work closely with colleagues to identify key performance issues and propose solutions.
• Management of National / overhead costs, including partnering with SLT / cost centre owners to help them understand monthly results.
• Support the FP&A Finance Manager with any ad-hoc information and decision support, for any operational, commercial and strategic initiatives in the Hotels business.
• A key point of contact for the Endeavour Finance team.
• Champion the rollout of GCP reporting in the business (Commercial and Operations), as well as FP&A P&Ls.
• Own the relationship with Group Finance Enablement, including new systems and processes (eg: TM1 Budget Tool)
• Hotels Reporting System - TM1 - play a systems accountant role supporting Group Finance Enablement (P&L/Bal Sheet hierarchy including Drivers, Retail, Venues, etc).
• Support the preparation and submission of the annual budget and forecast (when required), including ensuring they are understood and owned.
• Review, reconcile and challenge budget/forecast inputs (including TM1 output) from contributors to ensure it aligns with key assumptions / expectations on shape, etc.
• Work with key stakeholders (Group FP&A, Hotels Commercial and Operations Finance Teams, Hotels Management Accounting Teams) to ascertain P&L line items and cost control measures and resource requirements.
• Managing costs against budget/targets and assisting key stakeholders to monitor budgets/targets at all levels.
• Proactive approach and a willingness to work across all areas of the business.
• Communication across multiple groups within finance and the wider business.
• Work across Finance to implement best practices and improved ways of working, systems and processes.

Now let’s talk about you

• CA / CPA Qualification
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Strong data analysis and modelling skills to analyse and summarise high volumes of data
• Strong presentation and storyboarding skills
• Able to ensure the approach and output is simple, structured, accurate and robust
• Able to synthesise large amounts of data from a variety of sources
• Able to communicate complex financial information to a broad audience, able to make the complex simple
• Ability to identify efficiencies to accommodate the changing business environment
• Prioritise team efforts to support business requirements
• Strong experience using financial systems in a commercial environment e.g. Excel (e.g. pivot tables, VLOOKUP's, macros), SAP, Tableau, TM1 Forecasting & Budgeting System, Google reporting suite, etc

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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