**A new role = A new way to win together**:
You belong at Coles Group where we look ahead, have a plan, and are up for the challenge. We learn and grow by taking career-defining opportunities and this one may just be your next.
**About the team**
Finance makes it easier for us to win together as a business. Our team works side-by-side with every other team to help bring commercial thinking into what they do and make moves that support our strategic business decisions.
We offer good work-life balance, flexible working arrangements and excellent compensation benefits.
We have an empowering and inclusive culture with open and effective management providing career stability.
Work in one of the largest and smartest finance functions among ASX-listed companies, with a positive culture, high quality leaders and the opportunity to make an impact on highly commercial, highly visible programs of work that inform and enable business strategy. We care for our people with a focus on wellbeing, fairness and equity, and you're trusted to work in a way that works best for you. Because we believe flexible work is a thing we do, not a place we go.
**About the Role**
We are seeking to appoint a passionate and dedicated **Finance Business Partner - Online Marketing & Flybuys **to our** Liquor division**. This is a highly visible role that provides financial support to the Online, Marketing & Flybuys teams across Liquor.
You will be responsible for:
- Working side by side with the Online, Marketing & Flybuys teams to deliver sales, margin and cost targets.
- This includes but not limited to identifying opportunities to drive sales over and above plans and grow online channel profitability
- Influence business decision making with fact based insightful and innovative analysis
- Drive insight and ROI analysis of marketing / Flybuys spend to ensure most efficient use of investment $
- Tracking key initiatives to ensure they are on target to delivered expected outcome
- Financial governance and performance reporting including:
- Support the annual long term strategic plan and budget process for Online, Marketing & Flybuys
- Responsible for the month-end process, ensuring any reconciling difference are investigated. Clear and concise explanations of month-end results to senior stakeholders
- Drive the monthly forecast process ensuring all risk and opportunities are understood and communicated
- Support the team on business case development across the Online, Marketing and Flybuys areas to drive long term growth in the business
- Identify and define process and/or system improvements to enhance ability to deliver on objectives
**Further you will have the ability to**:
- Ability to influence outcomes and drive results - particularly with non-direct reports and those in different business functions
- Skilled PowerPoint user, able to build compelling presentations which communicate complex financial messages into a clear story for senior, non-financial audiences. Often within quick timeframe
- Proficient Excel user with excellent data manipulation and analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills, with proven ability to educate financial and non-financial stakeholders on the key drivers of performance; and
- Interpret, challenge and clarify ad-hoc requests by determining the key questions that need to be answered and appropriate format and priority of response
- Confident user of data systems to extract and manipulate data highly efficiently
**Your Skills & background**
- Tertiary degree, e.g., Bachelor of Accounting or Finance/Business Administration, or risk management related discipline
- CA or CPA preferred, with experieincein a retail orgainsation or setting preferred
- Strong influencing and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate up to senior management levels
- Strong presentation and report writing skills
- Strong critical thinking, analytical and complex problem-solving skills
- Strong relationship management skills to work effectively with third party providers
- Excellent numeracy skills; systems literacy; Power BI and data analytics skills a plus
- Ability to effectively manage competing priorities
- Ability to respectfully challenge the status quo and maintain independence
**Safer together**
Job ID: 74982
Employment Type: Permanent