Senior Finance Analyst - FP&A

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At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!
Job Description
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Bring your passion and feel the energy

• One of the most sort after positions in the FP&A space
• We have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals.

Sitting within our Hotels business unit, the Senior Finance Analyst - FP&A will play an integral role in the annual budget process and monthly forecast cycles, whilst tracking and analysing performance, and maintaining the integrity of the financial data that the business uses to make key commercial and operational decisions.
Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role

• Improve team ways of working by introducing innovative analysis, systems efficiencies, improving processes and providing constructive challenges to all areas.
• Deliver insightful analysis and commercial recommendations including ownership of the monthly Hotels performance pack, and input into Endeavour reporting cycle (including Hotels KPI Dashboards, etc).
• Work with FP&A Finance Manager and the wider finance team to ensure consistent rhythm in place for weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly deliverables.
• Support the consolidation of daily/weekly reporting and monthly forecast, with a focus on sales and labour, and associated metrics, with an emphasis on data integrity.
• Assessment of risks and opportunities against financial targets and provide recommendations for mitigating actions.
• Provide leadership in financial control with management of month end close, proposing relevant month end journals and coordination with Hotels Management Accounting Teams.
• Work closely with colleagues to identify key performance issues and propose solutions.
• Management of National / overhead costs, including partnering with SLT / cost centre owners to help them understand monthly results.
• Support the FP&A Finance Manager with any ad-hoc information and decision support, for any operational, commercial and strategic initiatives in the Hotels business.
• A key point of contact for the Endeavour Finance team.
• Champion the rollout of GCP reporting in the business (Commercial and Operations), as well as FP&A P&Ls.
• Own the relationship with Group Finance Enablement, including new systems and processes (eg: TM1 Budget Tool)
• Hotels Reporting System - TM1 - play a systems accountant role supporting Group Finance Enablement (P&L/Bal Sheet hierarchy including Drivers, Retail, Venues, etc).
• Support the preparation and submission of the annual budget and forecast (when required), including ensuring they are understood and owned.
• Review, reconcile and challenge budget/forecast inputs (including TM1 output) from contributors to ensure it aligns with key assumptions / expectations on shape, etc.
• Work with key stakeholders (Group FP&A, Hotels Commercial and Operations Finance Teams, Hotels Management Accounting Teams) to ascertain P&L line items and cost control measures and resource requirements.
• Managing costs against budget/targets and assisting key stakeholders to monitor budgets/targets at all levels.
• Proactive approach and a willingness to work across all areas of the business.
• Communication across multiple groups within finance and the wider business.
• Work across Finance to implement best practices and improved ways of working, systems and processes.

Qualifications

• Improve team ways of working by introducing innovative analysis, systems efficiencies, improving processes and providing constructive challenges to all areas.
• Deliver insightful analysis and commercial recommendations including ownership of the monthly Hotels performance pack, and input into Endeavour reporting cycle (including Hotels KPI Dashboards, etc).
• Work with FP&A Finance Manager and the wider finance team to ensure consistent rhythm in place for weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly deliverables.
• Support the consolidation of daily/weekly reporting and monthly forecast, with a focus on sales and labour, and associated metrics, with an emphasis on data integrity.
• Assessment of risks and opportunities against financial targets and provide recommendations for mitigating actions.
• Provide leadership in financial control with management of month end close, proposing relevant month end journals and coordination with Hotels Management Accounting Teams.
• Work closely with colleagues to identify key performance issues and propose solutions.
• Management of National / overhead costs, including partnering with SLT / cost centre owners to help them understand monthly results.
• Support the FP&A Finance Manager with any ad-hoc information and decision support, for any operational, commercial and strategic initiatives in the Hotels business.
• A key point of contact for the Endeavour Finance team.
• Champion the rollout of GCP reporting in the business (Commercial and Operations), as well as FP&A P&Ls.
• Own the relationship with Group Finance Enablement, including new systems and processes (eg: TM1 Budget Tool)
• Hotels Reporting System - TM1 - play a systems accountant role supporting Group Finance Enablement (P&L/Bal Sheet hierarchy including Drivers, Retail, Venues, etc).
• Support the preparation and submission of the annual budget and forecast (when required), including ensuring they are understood and owned.
• Review, reconcile and challenge budget/forecast inputs (including TM1 output) from contributors to ensure it aligns with key assumptions / expectations on shape, etc.
• Work with key stakeholders (Group FP&A, Hotels Commercial and Operations Finance Teams, Hotels Management Accounting Teams) to ascertain P&L line items and cost control measures and resource requirements.
• Managing costs against budget/targets and assisting key stakeholders to monitor budgets/targets at all levels.
• Proactive approach and a willingness to work across all areas of the business.
• Communication across multiple groups within finance and the wider business.
• Work across Finance to implement best practices and improved ways of working, systems and processes