Senior Finance Manager - 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!

• Proactively deliver insightful finacial analysis and commercial recommendations
• Partner with BWS & Dan Murphy Brands 
• Love what you do and leave your mark

The Senior Finance Manager - Commercial will partner with Commercial Heads of Brand (BWS and Dan Murphy’s) supporting Endeavour and Retail Brand strategies with revenue of +$10Bn.

With a strong commercial growth and transformational mindset you will drive business
performance and proactively provide commercial support through thought leadership and
actionable insights. The role has 3 direct reports (category finance business partners) and a total team size of 4 FTE’s,

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

Performance Reporting, Interpretation & Planning

• Proactively deliver insightful analysis and commercial recommendations to the business
• Ensure robust frameworks are in place for all Commercial reporting, ensuring messaging is actionable and insightful
• Monitoring 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.
• Proactively manage, agree and communicate business Budget/Forecasts and any other strategic planning requirements
• Managing business initiatives against targets, supporting key stakeholders to optimise opportunities
• 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.

Decision Support

• Support strategic recommendations in line with Strategy to the Merch Leadership team and Brand GM Finance/LT
• Partner with the Heads of Brand and Category 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

Team and Culture

• Provide leadership, coaching and mentoring to direct reports and across the broader Endeavour finance and commercial teams
• Establishing and developing relations with senior management, external partners, finance and commercial stakeholders
• Work closely with finance peers across all brands and the group

Now let’s talk about you: 

• Minimum of 12+ years relevant experience with CA/CPA Qualification
• Previous management experience of multi-functional team / or experience in the retail of 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
• Advanced leadership, coaching, mentoring and development skills
• Advanced time management skills
• Advanced analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to prioritise team efforts to support business requirements
• Advanced experience using financial systems in a commercial environment e.g. Excel, Powerpoint

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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