Company Description Pact Group's Contract Manufacturing Division manufactures across several operational sites and supplies a wide range of homecare and personal-care categories to all the major retailers and global FMCG brand owners.
Job Description As a Finance Assistant within the Pact Contract Manufacturing Division, you will provide the critical accounting and commercial link between Sales, finance, and customer/shared services, to ensure all claims and rebates are accurately accrued and processed maintaining compliance with company policies and procedures. You will support all margin and costing reviews enabling our business stakeholder to make well informed decisions based on accurate and timely information.
Reporting to the Senior Divisional Business Partner, you will work across multiple manufacturing sites to ensure close partnership with business leaders and site stakeholders, including shared services, sales, customer service, procurement, supply chain, broader divisional and group finance teams to ensure we have the right inputs and deliver the right outcomes.
You will develop strong understanding of Bill of Materials (BOM), Manufacturing Finance, P&L and Balance Sheet. You will support Rise and Fall process in collaboration with sales, procurement, supply chain and NPI team. Ensure accurate prices are maintained in SAP to reduce pricing claims and deliver forecasted price recovery. You will prepare and review quarterly STD COGs changes by SKU/Plant with sales and site finance teams and drive margin maintenance through price.
You will support preparation, evaluation, and presentation of forecasting and budgeting process by partnering with business leads across Pact Contract Manufacturing by assisting them in their financial management and planning. You will support sales and marketing teams in building and presenting quarterly business reviews with EGM.
In addition you will support your key stakeholders to establish effective review and reporting cadences and ensure clear information /insights to support accountabilities, while providing critical finance support and being sensitive to the needs of the business.
Demonstrating your analytical perspective, you will drive cost effectiveness, extract efficiencies, optimise controls and manage risk with a strong focus implementing best practice claim process, margin and cost management, while driving consistency of implementation across all parts of Pact Contract Manufacturing.
Your key responsibilities will be to: Safety Display an unrelenting focus on improving our safety culture. Your behavioural leadership is genuine and highly visibleManage claims and rebate processes, ensuring accurate and timely processing of claims and maintaining compliance with company policies and procedures.Issue monthly claim reports, providing detailed analysis of claims and rebates, identifying trends, and making recommendations for improvement.Conduct investigations and implement process improvements in the claim and rebate function, resulting in enhanced efficiency and reduced errors.Assist in quarterly Rise and Fall analysis in collaboration with the sales and procurement departments, helping to forecast and plan future selling price based on future cost. Prepare supporting documents for customers and ensure accurate and timely loading of SAP pricesConduct review meetings with sales and site finance.Support senior business partner in costing and margin analysis, providing insights and recommendations to optimize pricing and profitability.Support budgets, forecast process by creating base files to suit sales and site requirements.Your skills and experience Post graduate experience in a management accounting or cost accounting roleExperience partnering with cross functional stakeholder to identify opportunities, draw insights, develop solutions and deliver resultsDemonstrated experience leveraging analytical capability to influence business stakeholders to more effectively manage costs, risks, revenues and profitsSound financial understanding of P&L, accounting systems and financial metricsTertiary accounting qualificationStudying towards CPA or CA qualificationKey skills Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with people at all levels in technical or non-technical language, which can be easily understoodAbility to apply effective questioning, communication and influencing skills to understand business issues, develop targeted analysis and insights, and translate insights into priority findingsAbility to work to challenging deadlines in demanding fast paced environmentProactive in identifying and solving complex problems / issuesAbility to think innovatively in developing and implementing solutionsAbility to effectively understand and interpret dataAdvanced skills in Excel, Power BI and reporting tools Additional Information About us Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It's a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.
We're the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region's biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world's largest brands that consumers know and trust.
As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we've committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.
For us, it's about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people's lives every day.
Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.
That's our future Pact. Let's lead the way together.