As MECCA continues to grow across Australia and New Zealand, our Finance team plays a critical role in supporting the business and driving operational excellence. We’re looking for a driven Finance Inventory Manager to lead inventory accounting and reporting, support a small, high-performing team, and drive continuous improvement across our fast-paced Finance function on a Fixed Term Contract until November 2027. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the integrity of inventory valuation and balance sheet positions, delivering accurate and timely financial reporting, and maintaining solid audit readiness. The role also provides leadership and oversight to a small team, supporting capability uplift and continuous improvement across finance processes.

The Role You Could Play:

- Oversee and provide technical and commercial expertise on inventory accounting, valuation, landed costs and provisioning to ensure accurate financial reporting
- Ensure strong balance sheet governance and month-end and support statutory reporting requirements particularly across inventory and related accounts.
- Act as a key contact for external audit activities, ensuring audit readiness and driving continuous improvement in audit processes
- Partner with Retail, Distribution, Supply Chain, Commercial and Sustainability teams to support business initiatives, inventory performance and ASRS reporting requirements
- Lead, coach and develop a small team while contributing to finance transformation, systems enhancement and process improvement initiatives

What You Will Bring:

- CA/CPA qualification with significant experience in audit and financial accounting or a similar technical finance role
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, including AASB/IFRS reporting standards and balance sheet governance
- Experience managing inventory accounting, controls and reporting within a retail, FMCG or product-based environment
- Proven ability to lead and develop teams while building strong relationships across a broad stakeholder group




- A proactive mindset, strong analytical capability and a passion for continuous improvement and process optimisation

Your Life At MECCA

Whilst we are focused on our #CustomerFirst mantra, we know that wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team that is guided by our MECCA values and motivated each and every day to be solutions focused, innovative, collaborative and adaptable, and have a bit of fun along the way! Some of our other team member benefits include:

- Professional development programs and first-class digitised learning offering
- Health and well-being initiatives
- Reward and recognition programs
- Access to quarterly product allowance
- Generous discount to spoil yourselves and your immediate family, as well as a generous product allowance, subject to company policy

There are also so many other ways in which you’ll be made to feel part of the MECCA story as we love to celebrate, surprise and delight our team along the way. To learn more about life at MECCA Brands, follow us on LinkedIn at MECCA Brands or @lifeatmecca and for all current opportunities, visit www.mecca.com.au/careers. Follow @LIFEATMECCA Visit our LinkedIn page Since our very first day in 1997, our purpose has been to enable our customers to look and feel their best by offering them the world’s best line-up of beauty and skin-care brands, coupled with exceptional service. Fast forward to today, and we have almost 5,000 MECCA team members across 100+ retail stores throughout Australia and New Zealand, a rapidly growing online business, two Distribution Centres, and a bustling Support Centre in the heart of Melbourne working to deliver on our purpose every single day. Our ongoing growth is fuelled by opening new stores and reaching new customers, launching new products, and harnessing the latest technology to constantly innovate and evolve our concepts, experiences, and service offerings. Whether you join MECCA in one of our Retail stores, our Support Centre or one of our Distribution Centres, you will be an integral part of the MECCA family.

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📌 Finance Inventory Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 MECCA Brands
📍 Melbourne