Senior Financial Planning Analyst

**We are Woolworths Group**

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow'. That Purpose fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments, and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

If you're excited to turn today's blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.
- High exposure to our business & executive leadership teams
- Business partnering role - dynamic scope + variety
- Influence key decisions and provide value-add insights & analysisStart date in mid January 2025

**Ready to make an impact?**

We’re looking for a Senior Financial Planning Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis to join our wider Finance team here in Aotearoa reporting to our Financial Planning and Analysis Finance Manager.Joining our wider Finance team you’ll take accountability for communicating the end-to-end P&L of the business and provide strategic financial insights to guide the business in delivering its plan including providing actionable recommendations to influence profitability and returns. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain a comprehensive view of the business, collaborate with the Leadership Team, understand Executive Team’s strategic business thinking, and contribute to strategic decision-making.

**About the Role | Mō te Tūranga**
- Report the monthly P&L and assess drivers of performance, facilitate month end close discussions
- Executive reporting including Board, Business Performance meetings, Executive Leadership Team meetings and quarterly external reporting
- Finance Business Partner to the Strategy & Transformation team, helping to achieve strategic objectives in line with financial plans
- Drive the forecast, planning and budgeting process, understand key performance drivers and actions to guide the businessSharing and driving ideas to improve both team, function and business and drive business outcomes

**About You | Mōu**

To succeed in this role you will need to be CA / CPA / CFA qualified with ideally 3+ years of work experience post qualification in a scalable work environment. A natural with numbers and tools, you’ll have an analytical lens with the ability to tell a story from an abundance of data and provide insights to key stakeholders that will influence and drive operational decision making. You’ll bring a strong business partnering approach, able to build strong working relationships and the ability to challenge constructively and encourage authentic conversations to really influence key decisions.

If you’re the sort of individual who strives to always do the right thing for customers, team, our communities, and our business then we ought to connect.

**Working with Woolworths NZ | Me mahi tahi tatou ki Woolworths NZ**

Our purpose is to make Kiwis' lives a little better every day.

We’re friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you’ll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week.

**Come as you are | Nau mai, whakatau mai**

We’re an equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all.

If you’re smart and good at what you do, come as you are.

**Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group**

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.