Sales Finance Business Partner

Mars Snacking is a global leader in snacking backed by over a century of innovation and iconic brand-building. Powered by more than 50000 Associates and over80 production facilities globally our beloved snacks spanning confectionary salty cereal noodlesand frozen foods categories are enjoyed in more than180 countries around the world.

Were on the lookout for a Sales Finance Business Partner (BP) to join our high performing Finance team

This Melbourne based role leads critical deliverables within the scope of Sales customer and channel strategy and trade promotion optimization as well as providing rigorous financial governance over trade spending pricing and commercial resource allocation.

The Sales Finance BP will contribute to educating and upskilling sales and key account stakeholders in financial business acumen and in utilizing trade spend evaluation and self-service tools. The BP will share and leverage best practices through a commercial finance community of experts industrializing repeatable standards across channels and accounts.

What Youll Do

• Be a true business partnersupporting the delivery of targets set within operational plans through periodic account closing & S&OP cycles.
• Drive strategic decision-making by understanding market dynamics competitive trends and consumer behavior to uncover opportunities.
• Champion commercial insight by providing insights and thorough inputs to the operating plan revised forecasts and strategic planning cycles.
• Lead impactful projects by developing strategic partnerships with Key Account Teams Strategic Revenue Management and Category Management through a deep understanding of the competitive retail landscape and analyzing customer-specific environments.
• Fuel a value-creation mindset across cross-functional teams through digital tools insightful reporting and commercial acumen.
• Upskill and inspire marketing stakeholders by enhancing financial literacy and encouraging use of Mars innovation toolkits for disruptive innovation with strong financial evaluation and storytelling.

What Youll Bring

• A Bachelors degree in Finance Commerce or a related field.
• CPA/CA or equivalent is highly advantageous.
• 3-5 years of diversified financial management experience including planning forecasting and commercial business partnering.
• A passion for driving performance through data-led insights and strategy.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate numbers into strategic narratives.
• Experience working cross-functionallyparticularly in partnership with Marketing Sales or Category teams.
• A proactive mindset always seeking ways to simplify improve and add value.

What can you expect from Mars

• Genuine career progression with a focus on you and your career goals. Best-in-class learning and development support from day one including access to our in-house Mars University.

• Global health and wellbeing program to support flexibility and work-life balance.
• Opportunity to make a difference with our volunteer and ambassador programs.
• Be part of a company that is contributing to making the world a better place today and every day through on our sustainable generation plan.
• A culture that offers collaboration leadership and rewards you for the role you play within Mars.
• At Mars Snacking take pride in your contribution in creating better moments for millions through our brands to the way we source make and market our products.

Mars is an equal opportunityemployerand all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. If you needassistanceor an accommodation during the application process because of a disability it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide suchassistance and no applicant will be penalizedas a result ofsuch a request.