Commercial Finance Business Partner, Auckland

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Commercial Finance Business Partner Date: Mar 19, 2025 Location: Auckland, NZ Function: Finance Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level Employment type: Workplace Type: On-site Company: Campari New Zealand Ltd Campari Group today is a major player in the global branded spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, marketed and distributed in over 190 markets around the world.General Description of the Role As the Commercial Finance Business Partner, you will contribute to monitoring business results and support the sales and leadership team with decision making. This role will provide commercial insight into brand and customer profitability, contribute to pricing strategy, and support the sales team to manage and optimize trade spend.This role will engage the sales leadership team to develop tools and provide reporting frameworks to establish best practices for trade spend optimization and governance. Key Responsibilities and Activities Business Partnering : Support Head of Sales with monthly sales forecasting and trade spend management. Work with sales to ensure trade spend is captured accurately by customer and brand. Provide sales team with actual vs planned spend tracking.Facilitate customer profitability reviews to help drive customer term negotiations and promotion effectiveness. Develop channel price, volume, and mix variance analysis deep dive tools. Maintain the customer hierarchy to facilitate the development of targets by region and reports to track performance.Partner sales team with the annual price increase process to ensure decisions deliver the best result for consumer, customer, and Campari. Creation of regular reports for key stakeholders for monitoring business results and decision-making support. Work with key stakeholders on the analysis and application of budget and forecast numbers.Work closely with the country lead on the development and management of the structure costs budget/forecast. Monthly Sales Planning Process: Creation and maintenance of templates/models for budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning processes for customer volume, gross sales, and trade spend.Detailed analysis of monthly performance vs plan and prior year, highlighting where brand performance within key customers is ahead/behind target. Creation of presentation decks for key budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes. Maintain invoice pricing for all products to external customers and intercompany transfer prices.Maintain excise price file and ensure excise tax is being captured in inventory and invoicing. Support the sales team with increasing conditionality in trading terms. Work with key functions of Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain to assess the viability of new products and ensure they meet target margin requirements.Work with Supply Chain to understand product costing. Work with the sales team and provide financial insight on P&L impact of pricing, promotions, and new customer negotiations. Projects and Other Support the Head of FP&A with monthly planning and reporting processes. Assist in the business case preparation for any ongoing projects. Support the team with any ad-hoc requirements. Key Relationships Internal: Commercial Sales; Brand Marketing, All Support functions Experience Required&Skills Minimum 5 years’ experience, ideally working closely with Sales in a commercial capacity. Degree in Commerce/Accounting. Previous experience within Liquor industry or other FMCG organizations is preferred. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel. Power BI experience preferred. Good working knowledge of SAP/BI.High attention to detail. Sound analysis and reporting skills. Our commitment to Diversity&Inclusion: At Campari Group we believe in building more value together, thus we see diversity in all forms as a source of enrichment. Our employment policies and practices ensure that we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. #J-18808-Ljbffr