Location: Gosford & Central Coast
Reports to: CFO / Finance Director
Employment Type: Full-time, hybrid

About the Company

A growing food manufacturing business producing and distributing high-quality food products across (Australia / domestic and international markets). We are focused on profitable growth, operational excellence, innovation and delivering exceptional products to our customers.

We are seeking an experienced FP&A; Managerto strengthen our financial planning, analysis and decision support capability as the business continues to grow.

The Role

The FP&A; Manager will be a key commercial finance partner to the CFO, CEO and senior leadership team. The role will provide insightful analysis and forward-looking financial information to supportgrowth, profitability, pricing, production and investment decisions.

This is not simply a reporting role. We are looking for someone who can understand what is happening in the manufacturing operation, identify the financial drivers behind performance, challenge assumptions and turn financial information into clear recommendations for management.

The role will have significant interaction withOperations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, Marketing and Commercial teams, as well as responsibility for the company's budgeting, forecasting and management reporting processes.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the annual budgeting and financial planning process.
- Own the rolling forecast and regular reforecasting process.
- Develop financial models and scenario analysis to support business decisions.
- Establish clear financial drivers and KPIs across revenue, gross margin, manufacturing costs and operating expenses.




- Analyse actual performance against budget, forecast and prior year.
- Identify emerging risks and opportunities and communicate them proactively to management.
- Prepare long-range financial plans and strategic business cases.

Manufacturing & Cost Analysis

- Partner closely with Operations and Supply Chain to understand manufacturing performance.
- Analyseproduct costs, standard costs, labour, materials, overheads, production variances and manufacturing efficiency.
- Analyse production yields, wastage, scrap, downtime and other operational drivers of profitability.
- Support the development and maintenance of product and manufacturing cost models.
- Identify opportunities to improve gross margin and manufacturing profitability.

Commercial & Gross Margin Analysis

- Provide detailed analysisofsales, gross turnover, rebates, and net revenue.
- Analyse product, customer, channel and market profitability.
- Develop and monitor gross margin reporting and profitability KPIs.
- Support pricing decisions and assess the financial impact of proposed price changes.
- Evaluate customer trading terms.
- Identify margin leakage and recommend corrective actions.
- Support Sales and Commercial teams with financial modelling and business cases.

Management Reporting





- Lead the monthly FP&A; reporting process and preparation of management packs.
- Provide clear commentary explaining the"why" behind the numbers, rather than simply reporting variances.
- Develop dashboards and reporting that provide management with timely visibility of business performance.
- Establish meaningful KPIs across financial and operational performance.
- Present financial results and insights to senior management.

Business Partnering

- Act as a trusted finance partner to theCEO, CFO and leadership team.
- Partner with Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, Sales and Marketing to improve financial performance.
- Challenge business assumptions constructively and ensure financial implications are understood before decisions are made.
- Translate complex financial information into practical commercial recommendations.
- Develop strong relationships with non-finance stakeholders and improve financial accountability across the business.

Systems, Data & Process Improvement

- Drive continuous improvement of FP&A; processes, reporting and financial models.
- Improve the quality, accuracy and timeliness of management information.
- Leverage ERP to automate reporting and reduce manual processes.
- Develop robust financial models and analytical tools.
- Work closely with Finance and IT teams to improve data integrity and reporting capability.

Success in this role will include:

- A robust and commercially focused budgeting and forecasting process.
- Explicit visibility ofproduct, customer and channel profitability.
- Improved understand

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