Finance Manager – Planning and Trading
Lead a team responsible for managing business plans, and for providing core insights into the business performance.
Summary about this job
Strategy & Planning
Company: Coles
Location: Melbourne
Work type: Full Time
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Phone: +61-2-2046-4436
Fax: +61-8-9651-5242
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Detail information about job Finance Manager – Planning and Trading. Terms and conditions vacancy
The role
In this role you will be responsible for managing trading risks, the team’s daily, weekly, and monthly deliverables in the planning & trading space, ensuring the delivery of key insights to help drive business performance performance.
To be successful, you’ll have:
- a CA/CPA qualification
- the ability to distil and effectively communicate complex information to a broad range of audience
- strong commercial and analytical skills to support understanding of key business performance drivers, and raise recommendations on actions required to improve performance
- strong influencing skills, and exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- an understanding of retail dynamics and passion for retail
- strong attention to detail
- experience of leading and developing small to medium sized teams
- solid system skills, TM1 and BIW a preference
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- drive insightful, forward focussed discussions, recommendations and actions on Supermarkets and Business Units levels to improve short and medium term trade and highlight potential trading risks and opportunities
- lead preparation of all daily, weekly, periodic projections and discussions on results, with context on short and medium term planned performances for the Supermarkets business
- support Business Units and Finance leaderships in understanding trade drivers with both concise and relevant insights, and detailed deep dive analysis as required
- deliver process improvements within the team’s deliverables
Culture
Coles is a fast-paced, constantly changing business that focuses your talents and challenges you to perform at your best.
As a team, we’re bold with ideas and operate with pace and passion, always looking for better ways to transform retail and delight customers.
Benefits
Not only will you receive a competitive salary, you’ll also have access to these great benefits:
- a 5% discount when shopping at Coles, Kmart, Officeworks and Target
- learn new skills and develop your existing capabilities - we provide excellent ongoing training and development
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for primary care givers and 1 week of paid leave for secondary care givers
- get fitter, stronger and faster at our on-site gym
About us
Today, Coles is one of Australia’s iconic retailers, providing a range of fresh food, groceries, general merchandise, liquor and fuel to millions of customers every week.
We have a combination of over 2,400 retail outlets across Australia covering Coles supermarkets, Coles Express fuel and convenience sites, Spirit Hotels and liquor stores under Liquorland, Vintage Cellars and First Choice Liquor branding.
While some things have changed over the years, one thing remains the same – our customer first strategy. We have over 112,000 fantastic team members across the country that are focused on making life easier for our customers and making a difference to the communities we serve every day.
Please Note
We prefer to deal with you directly and have not engaged an agency for this role, so if you’re interested, please apply.
At Coles, we aim to ensure our team represents the community we serve, embracing the richness of Australia's diverse population.