Head of Finance Business Partnering
Lead commercial finance at a senior level.
Shape strategy, challenge decisions, and drive performance in a complex, fast-paced environment with significant influence.
Role focus
Act as the key finance partner to executive and senior commercial leaders.
Translate financial data into sharp, actionable business insights.
Drive forecasting, budgeting, and planning cycles end to end.
Provide high-quality commercial analysis to support investment and commercial decisions.
Identify risks and opportunities, recommend trade-offs, and challenge assumptions.
Lead performance reporting, including P&L; and category performance.
Elevate reporting quality, simplifying information for senior stakeholders.
Champion process and systems improvement across planning, reporting, and analysis.
Team leadership
Lead a Finance Business Partnering team with clear direction and high standards.
Coach, mentor, and develop finance professionals to deepen commercial capability.
Embed a culture of curiosity, challenge, and continuous improvement.
Promote collaboration between finance, commercial, category, and operations teams.
Key experience required




Extensive senior experience in Finance Business Partnering, FP&A;, or commercial finance.
Proven background in FMCG, CPG, product-led, or similarly complex commercial environments.
Solid track record in forecasting, budgeting, performance reporting, and P&L; management.
Advanced financial modelling and scenario planning skills.
Ability to turn data into concise narratives for executive audiences.
Demonstrated ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders constructively.
Proven leadership, coaching, and stakeholder influencing skills.
Technical and systems capability
High proficiency in Excel for modelling and analysis.
Solid understanding of ERP, planning, and reporting platforms.
Comfortable interrogating large data sets to derive commercial insight.
Commercially astute with a strategic mindset and operational pragmatism.
Clear, confident communicator with executive presence.
Resilient and decisive under pressure and ambiguity.
Highly collaborative, able to build trusted relationships across functions.
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📌 Head Of Finance Business Partnering (Melbourne)
🏢 Expert360
📍 Melbourne