Key responsibilities:• Partnering with the Managing Director and leadership team to drive commercial success.• Provide commercial insights and analysis to support decision-making and consistently highlight opportunities and risks with actions to facilitate expected financial performance.• Hold the business accountable but equally enable the business and Business Partners to deliver in accordance with expectations.• Driving the delivery of accurate and timely month end close… Show more Key responsibilities:• Partnering with the Managing Director and leadership team to drive commercial success.• Provide commercial insights and analysis to support decision-making and consistently highlight opportunities and risks with actions to facilitate expected financial performance.• Hold the business accountable but equally enable the business and Business Partners to deliver in accordance with expectations.• Driving the delivery of accurate and timely month end close, including P&L review, reforecast and balance sheet reconciliations.• Presenting budgets and forecasts and business plans to Headquarters.• Help the business identify priorities, make timely decisions and focus efforts on the “important few” actions that make the biggest impact. • Managing, and leading a high performing team (25 employees), including daily direction of workload and long term career development.• Support strategy and execution of M&A opportunities Show less

Key responsibilities include:· Leading, developing and coaching a team of ~30 finance professionals across Australia and NZ.· Coordination of the regional Financial Control cycle for the Pacific including monthly Reporting, Budget, Latest Estimate, 3 Year Plan and reporting regional financial information to executive management and to the head office in Paris. · Ensuring commercial and financial obligations for the Pacific Distributor businesses are met in accordance with Budget and… Show more Key responsibilities include:· Leading, developing and coaching a team of ~30 finance professionals across Australia and NZ.· Coordination of the regional Financial Control cycle for the Pacific including monthly Reporting, Budget, Latest Estimate, 3 Year Plan and reporting regional financial information to executive management and to the head office in Paris. · Ensuring commercial and financial obligations for the Pacific Distributor businesses are met in accordance with Budget and Latest Estimate (LE) targets. · Business Development such as the management of strategy and business development projects as directed by the CFO. These projects include internal strategy projects, strategic business reviews conducted in conjunction with external consultants, business, distribution agreements, strategic alliances, business and/or product expansion opportunities, and counseling/ advising other PRW personnel in relation to new business and development initiatives. Show less

Led Finance and Customer Services departments (12 people in total) for 5 years. The role reported directly to Managing Director of Pernod-Ricard NZKey responsibilities included:• Coordinating the annual strategic planning process (market insight, 4 year plan, Budget)• Providing management with insight on Distributor performance by Brand, Channel and Customer which highlights variance versus plans and support the Sales team develop corrective actions• Reporting performance to… Show more Led Finance and Customer Services departments (12 people in total) for 5 years. The role reported directly to Managing Director of Pernod-Ricard NZKey responsibilities included:• Coordinating the annual strategic planning process (market insight, 4 year plan, Budget)• Providing management with insight on Distributor performance by Brand, Channel and Customer which highlights variance versus plans and support the Sales team develop corrective actions• Reporting performance to Pernod-Ricard group• Control of Pricing, marketing and overheads spends (Full P&L)• Supporting the development of systems to improve the efficiency and accuracy of Distributor Finance information output and analysis• Ensure customer satisfaction and constantly look for ways to improve it Show less

o Lead and manage the Commercial Finance team (6 people), reporting to Finance Director.o Providing management with insight on Distributor performance which highlights variance versus plans and support the Sales team develop corrective actions.o Financial control of Pricing and marketing spends.o Coordinating the annual strategic planning process (3 year plan, Budget, LE).

o New Zealand wine industry analysis assisting in developing long term supply strategies: study of export trends by market/varietal, industry supply and demand to forecast impact on prices.o Supply planning: Analysis and balancing of company wine supply and worldwide demand.o Project work: Lead analyst for footprint projects on vineyards, wineries and bottling plant (right-sizing the operations to increase focus on the strategic brands and varietals).

o Development of business reporting tools (Budget, Monthly reporting). Prisma reporting (group reporting system).o Analysis of worldwide performance (Return on capital employed) by market, brand and product.