Commercial Finance Manager

Blackmores (www.blackmores.com.au) is Australia’s No.1 vitamin and dietary supplements brand with a legacy of over 90 years and is a publicly listed company employing 1250 people in 11 markets across Asia-Pacific. Headquartered in Australia, Blackmores has its international headquarter in Singapore, a health Innovation Centre in Shanghai, and a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Australia.

As a purpose-led, performance-driven organisation, Blackmores Group strives to create remarkable employee experiences through supporting a diverse and inclusive culture, creating leadership that inspires high performance, and providing everyone with opportunities to achieve their professional, personal and wellbeing goals supported by our flexible work practices and family friendly policies

Purpose of role:

This role is responsible to help the business maximize revenues, optimized investment and copilot for Blackmores strategic initiatives with stakeholders.

Responsibilities include:

Commercial Finance

• Increasing Revenue: Developing strategies to boost sales and revenue, such as identifying new market opportunities or optimizing pricing strategies
• Strategic Planning: Providing strategic financial guidance to the executive team to drive business performance. This involves developing financial models, reports, and analyses to support business objectives
• Cost Management: Reducing costs and improving efficiency by analysing expenses and implementing cost-saving measures 
• Profitability: Enhancing profit margins by balancing revenue growth with cost control.
• Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating financial risks to protect the company's assets and ensure long-term sustainability.
• Investment Optimization: Maximizing returns on investments for sales and marketing expenses by evaluating and selecting the best ROI opportunities.

Reporting & Controls

• Work with Business to ensure appropriate month end cut-off and submit reports on timeline.
• Work with stakeholder to ensure accuracy in the forecast that impact both demand/supply plan.

Process Enhancement & improvement

• Seek ways to maximise profits in line with corporate objectives with process improvement and cost savvy

Business Partnering

• Working closely with other departments, such as marketing and operations, to review actual results and variances to budgets and forecasts

System Maintenance

• Maintain and develop power BI database to be compass for stakeholders. 
• Work closely with analytical team cross regional to merge and sync local and global database

Team Leadership & Contribution

• Demonstrate strong leadership and promote the values, image and role of Blackmores to all team members.
• Review performance of direct reports; guide and motivate to achieve or exceed objectives
• Develop team members by providing opportunities to increase skill set
• Ensure cross functional needs are integrated in business/strategy action plan

Who are you?

• Bachelor’s in finance and/or Accounting or equivalent qualification
• Minimum of 5 years’ managerial experience in similar capacity (MNC/listed company experience preferred)
• Good knowledge and experience of commercial finance
• Experience working with large organisation and with multiple business partners
• Strong verbal and written communication / English literacy
• Proven organisation, leadership and coaching skills
• Willingness to adapt to changes in technologies, regulations, and industry trends is essential
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to gather inputs for finance efficiency
• Excellent in MS Excel, Power BI, Planning Analytics, Oracle Fusion or other ERP applications
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
• Aptitude for identifying financial challenges and proposing solutions to improve performance and efficiency 
• Strong strategic thinking and executional skills, capable of building for simplicity and attention to detail 
• Excellent presentation skills and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
• Dynamic, result-oriented and self-motivated
• Has demonstrated the ability to work in a team setting and has contributed to the achievement of a team's success.

Agencies please note: this recruitment assignment is being managed directly by Blackmores Talent Acquisition team. We will reach out to our preferred agency partners if required. Your respect for this process is appreciated.