Commercial Finance Manager

Job Description : COMMERCIAL FINANCE MANAGER AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND Looking for Indians or Sri Lankans eligible for working rights a dedicated and experienced Commercial Finance Manager to operate in their exports division. This role offers an exciting opportunity to drive long-term profitability in the Export Business, focusing on the Asian continent. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing end-to-end reporting of all exports and ensuring the optimisation of returns. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast paced environment. As a Commercial Finance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading the division. You will be responsible for driving performance and delivering their Export Sales, Margin, Innovation (NPD), among other responsibilities. Your ability to identify opportunities for improvement through insightful commentary, reporting, forums, process improvement, robust analysis will be crucial to your success in this role. You will also ensure that robust business models, customer hedging strategies and efficient controls are in place. Your role will also involve overseeing and facilitating tender costing and pricing models. * Partner with various leadership teams to support the delivery of Export commercial strategies. * Drive performance and delivery of Sales, Margin, Innovation (NPD), including Category Effectiveness, Direct Marketing Expense and Overhead budgets. * Lead the financial inputs for integrated export business plans. * Identify opportunities for improvement through insightful commentary, reporting, forums, process improvement, robust analysis and by identifying and mitigating risks & seeking opportunities. * Ensure robust business models, customer hedging strategies and efficient controls, processes and systems are in place. * Oversee and facilitate tender costing and pricing models. * Manage contract management and overall compliance. The ideal candidate for the Commercial Finance Manager position is a strategic thinker with a commercial approach to business in a manufacturing environment. You take a high level of responsibility and accountability in your work, and you have excellent communication and presentation skills at the executive level. You are able to manage multiple stakeholders and tasks often with challenging timelines and across time zones. Your ability to develop and lead a virtual team will be crucial in this role. Essential qualifications include CA/CPA/CIMA or MBA, FMCG industry experience and over 10 years of analytical business experience in a fast-paced commercial finance environment. * Strategic thinker with a commercial approach to business in a manufacturing environment * High level of responsibility and accountability * Excellent communication and presentation skills at Exec Level * Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and tasks often with challenging timelines and across time zones * Strong ability to develop and lead a virtual team * CA/CPA/CIMA or MBA qualification (Essential) * FMCG industry experience (Desired) * Mandarin language skills (Desired) * +10 years analytical business experience partnering experience in a fast-paced commercial finance environment with >$250 m in Gross Sales

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