Commercial Finance Manager

Blackmores Group is a leading natural health company with proud Australian heritage, with extensive reach across Asia Pacific. Founded by visionary naturopath Maurice Blackmore in 1932, our vision is to connect every person on earth to the healing power of nature by combining our knowledge of nature and science to deliver quality health solutions to people and their pets everywhere, every day.

Blackmores Group operates in over 11 markets, with headquarters and a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Australia, and offices across South East Asia and China.

As a purpose-led, performance-driven organisation, Blackmores Group strives to create remarkable employee experiences through supporting a diverse and inclusive culture, creating leadership that inspires high performance, and providing everyone with opportunities to achieve their professional, personal and wellbeing goals supported by our flexible work practices and family friendly policies.

Purpose of role:

This role will a Finance Business Partner who support non-finance functions such as operations, marketing and sales while challenging the business to make improvements, such as streamlining expenditure, to maximise profit and improve financial performance.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing finance business partner support to operations, sales directors and understanding of key drivers and trends.
• Identifying issues, recommending actions, and measuring outcomes based on data and factual analysis of sales, margins, volume, price, and mix
• Coordinating and leading the annual commercial planning process.
• Reviewing and challenging commercial targets during the budgeting and forecasting process to ensure accuracy and alignment with business goals.
• Managing ongoing forecasting and finance review to ensure commercial risks and opportunities are highlighted (IBP process).
• Developing a long-term strategic commercial plan.
• Determine optimal pricing by analyzing costs, market conditions, and profitability to align with business strategy and maximize revenue.
• Providing assistance with modelling and scenario testing for new business opportunities.
• Estimate the ROI for investment on marketing campaigns.
• Driving margin enhancement initiatives, structure deals to drive optimal ROI.
• Reviewing and approving all commercial proposals.
• Evaluating promotional plans and strategies.
• Improve control processes to ensure that results are reported appropriately and on a timely basis.
• Driving the monthly business performance management process ensuring accurate and timely delivery of information.
• Measuring and reporting monthly KPI's to management.

Who are you?

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field, or possession of a relevant professional certification
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in finance, with at least 2–3 years in a commercially focused or business-partnering role
• Prior experience in the FMCG sector is highly desirable
• Strong expertise in financial modelling, forecasting, budgeting, pricing and profitability analysis, and providing commercial deal support
• Solid understanding of commercial contracts and their financial implications
• Adaptable to evolving technologies, regulations, and industry developments
• Proven business acumen with strong commercial awareness, stakeholder engagement, and problem-solving capabilities
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel, with working knowledge of Power BI, Planning Analytics, Oracle Fusion, or other ERP systems
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Excellent presentation skills and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
• Dynamic, result-oriented and self-motivated
• Has demonstrated the ability to work in a team setting and has contributed to the achievement of a team's success.

Agencies please note: this recruitment assignment is being managed directly by Blackmores Talent Acquisition team. We will reach out to our preferred agency partners if required. Your respect for this process is appreciated.