Senior Manager
Accenture · Melbourne, Australia
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Act as strategic finance partner for category and operations leaders providing reporting, analysis and business cases.
Worth knowing: 10, 15 years experience asked and CA or CPA expected
About Accenture Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Find out more about us at www.accenture.com . ROLE PURPOSE: The Finance Business Partner sits a level up from transactional trading support – acting as the strategic finance counterpart to the category director or functional head. Where Commercial Finance answers “is this promotion/SKU margin-accretive,” the Business Partner answers “should we make this investment, enter this category, or change this operating model.” The role is judged on the quality of the recommendation and its adoption, not on report timeliness alone. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: A. Commercial reporting and insights Own end-to-end performance reporting and dashboards for allocated category or business unit — daily sales flash, weekly trade packs, monthly review packs and quarterly P&L reviews. Present financial insights to senior and executive leadership in clear, concise narrative, not just the numbers, but the “why” behind performance — translating data into commercial implications, risks and recommended actions. Proactively generate commercial insights to inform strategic and operational decisions — category margin dynamics, promo performance, channel mix shifts, volume trends. Deliver weekly manufacturing variance analysis — PPV, MUV, yield and standard cost variances — explaining operational drivers and required actions. Adapt, simplify and continuously improve reporting — including Compass dashboard development and migration from legacy Excel-based reports. B. Risk, opportunity and performance management Proactively identify risks and opportunities on sales and margin — quantify financial impact, communicate clearly to business leads and support active mitigation or realisation. Lead deep-dive analysis and root cause reviews in partnership with commercial, category and operations leads — going beyond variance reporting to understand and explain the "so what". Support target-setting and KPI tracking — revenue, margin, volume, promotional ROI and category contribution metrics. reconcile forecast uplift against actuals and feed learnings back into future planning summarising key financial outcomes. Drive continuous performance monitoring, flagging material movements identified through Compass AI anomaly detection and initiating analysis in response.
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