Commercial Accountant (5 Months Contract)

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About Kerry:   

Kerry offers the industry’s largest portfolio of Taste & Nutrition Systems and Functional Ingredients & Actives, serving the Global Food, Beverage and Pharmaceutical industries. We work with the world’s top Retailers and Manufacturing companies to produce some of the best private-label products and tailored Food & Beverage solutions on the market. We also work with the leading Food Service chains helping to deliver appetising, relevant and innovative custom solutions, using our expertise in new product development, production and commercialisation.

Founded in 1972 in Co. Kerry, Ireland, the Kerry Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions, and has succeeded in achieving sustained profitability. We have annualised sales in excess of €5 billion and supply over 15,000 food ingredients and flavour products to customers in more than 140 countries worldwide. We have established over 100 manufacturing sites, operate in over 30 countries, and employee 24,000 people worldwide.

Kerry has been present in the Asia-Pacific region since 1997 and has grown its business to become a supplier of choice for our regional and local customers. Kerry APAC employs nearly 3,500 talented people across the APAC region.

Kerry’s diverse, high performance teams are key to our innovative culture and ongoing success. Retaining and developing their enthusiasm and determination to succeed is central to Kerry’s strategy for growth and development. Kerry provides ongoing career development programmes for employees, through which they can enhance the skills, knowledge and capability necessary to deliver our future growth. Being a truly global company, our employees in Asia-Pacific have opportunities to develop their careers in a global environment, with training, career development and international opportunities across the global Kerry footprint.

Our Values:      Commitment | Teamwork | Excellence | Entrepreneurial | Value Creation

About the Role:

The Commercial Accountant will assume key responsibility for product costing and pricing activities related to Kerry’s Taste & Nutrition business in the New Zealand market and manage the assimilation, reporting and presentation of business performance in line with Kerry’s established KPIs and metrics.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Calculation and delivery of costing / pricing models across Kerry NZ’s product portfolio with a keen understanding of pricing and margin management activities (raw material risk, conversion cost modelling, FX risk management, margin segmentation etc)
• Preparation and review of various monthly reports / metrics together with the Commercial Controller with a strong emphasis on monthly Volume, Revenue & Margin reporting across a matrix managed organisation
• Oversight of the weekly Forward Projection (“Flash”) report, providing regional management with a realtime assessment of current month business performance
• Maintain Kerry’s Business Intelligence solution ensuring it operates with a high degree of data integrity
• Central control point for customer segmentation queries, regional database access, end-user training and ad hoc queries
• Ad hoc analysis and reporting as required including periodic Executive Meeting analytics and presentations
• Engaging and partnering with Commercial stakeholders to foster a greater understanding and insight of key business drivers and performance
• Support ad hoc regional Commercial Finance initiatives and annual strategic plans to include Budgeting and Forecasting and regional pricing strategies

Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelors Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or numerical discipline
• CPA or CA qualification essential
• Minimum 2 years' professional experience in a previous commercial role (must have experience working with Sales / Commercial teams)
• Familiarity with OLAP BI, Hyperion, SAP and SAP implementation processes all strongly desirable
• Highly computer literate with strong emphasis on analytical skills
• Candidates should be capable of analyzing and reporting on large volumes of data in a succinct and user friendly manner
• Strong team player capable of demonstrating key leadership competencies and working in a fast paced and dynamic environment