Woolworths Group is a food and everyday needs retailer united by the shared purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow. With more than 1,400 stores across its Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, and fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer. A top 10 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Woolworths Group employs more than 180,000 team members and serves more than 20 million customers a week.

Join one of Australia’s leading retail groups

Passionate about bringing a little good to everyone everyday!

Permanent full time, Sydney based

About the role

Due to an internal promotion, we have an exciting vacancy for an enthusiastic candidate looking to make a real contribution to a business which has recently undergone a substantial investment in technology, implementing tools to deliver improved Demand Planning, capture of Inventory Management. 

Reporting to the Senior Business Analyst - Meat Livestock, you will work with 10 other talented, collaborative and supportive members of the Protein Commercial Finance team. In this role, you will be responsible for the financial results and variance analysis to meet weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting requirements - explain key movements vs. Forecast, Budget & comparable period. Collectively, we will improve team ways of working: innovative analysis, systems efficiencies & processes. 

Responsibilities

Manage cost centres for Woolworths Supply Partners - deliver insightful commentary and actionable insights based on production mix, yield performance, financial and non-financial metrics. Maintain and review Inventory costing and master data.

Define solutions to automate and improve reporting using systems such as Foods Connected, Quintiq, Tableau and Google Cloud Platform

Play a key role in the Annual Operating Plan (Budget)

Analyse business drivers, prepare monthly forecast identifying risks and opportunities.and perform other ad hoc analysis as required

Apply initiative & solution orientated approach with commitment to improve ways of working

About you

You are an experienced & commercially minded Finance Professional (CA/CPA qualified or working towards) who is looking to apply expertise in driving and delivering results and the ability to negotiate and influence cross-functional stakeholders. You naturally embed yourself within Business Teams and form partnering relationships based on trust. In this role, you will continue to display values consistent with Woolworth’s values of ‘working end-to-end as one team’, ‘better together’ and ‘putting the customer first’. This role will test your ability to synthesise large amounts of data from a variety of sources and communicate complex financial information to a broad audience in a simple manner. 

Desirable 

Big 4 experience

Exposure to costing in a manufacturing environment

Exposure to SQL platforms including Google Cloud Platform, Python, MySQL or similar

Previous experience working with SAP or ERP equivalent

If you meet a number of requirements (and not all), along with either full and part time employees,  we encourage you to submit your application. Please include a cover letter demonstrating the criteria above.

Grow with the Group

Woolworths Group has announced it will be requiring Australian team members to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (subject to medical and religious exemptions).

As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do. 

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference. 

We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing. 

We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences – for our customers and for each other.

We’d love to hear from You

If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application. You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or via www.wowcareers.com.au. #LI #work180.

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