Finance Analyst

**Location**: Auckland
**Function**:Finance
**Sub-Function**: Finance - Reporting & Accounting
**Type of Contract**: Permanent

When you join DB Breweries, you join the global HEINEKEN whanau, where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, contribute their ideas, learn and grow as part of one of the largest beer and cider brewing companies in the world spanning 70 countries.

We believe diverse views make great brews, and the vibe in our team is very much reflected in our four values**:PASSION **for consumers and customers, **CARE **for people and planet, **ENJOYMENT **of life, and **COURAGE **to dream and pioneer. We offer a great range of employee benefits and positive culture which includes:

- Free health, life and income protection insurances.
- 5% employer contribution to your KiwiSaver.
- Free monthly allowance of beer, RTDs, cider or zero alcohol beverages.
- 20% employee discount at Star Hospitality venues (Kapura and Joylab restaurants and bars).
- ‘Enjoyment of Life' leave (an extra day each year to do something you enjoy).
- A range of other benefits including generous parental leave provisions, free confidential counselling support, digital wills, feminine hygiene products, retail discounts and more.
- Free learning and wellbeing tools and leadership development programmes.
- As a member of Mind The Gap, we’re committed to addressing gender pay gaps and we’ve also supported the Pacific Pay Gap Inquiry.
- Flexible work arrangements for roles that can be performed remotely including work-from-home up to two days each week.
- Free parking.

As Finance Analyst - Strategic Control, you'll be responsible for ensuring financial information for the Business Support functions is accurate, timely and facilitates robust financial decision making and key in supporting our Strategic COntroller in the coordination of the planning, budgeting and forecasting cycles and analysis of financial results of key stratetic projects.

**Timely & accurate management accounting & reporting, planning & forecasting for Business Support functions**
- Manage monthly close for business support functions
- Deliver accurate & timely monthly reports that explain variances to budget, latest estimate & last year
- Proactively monitor and discuss cost management with department heads
- Complete assigned balance sheet account reconciliations monthly and resolve variances
- Ensure all latest estimates & budgets are prepared in accordance with business directives, and that timetables are adhered to
- Business Partner to department heads ensuring they have clear and accurate information and financial support on their projects

**Timely & accurate reporting, planning & forecasting for wider DB business**
- Deliver accurate & timely reports to explain total business performance to the DB Leadership Team, Regional & Global teams.
- Support the Strategic Controller in the co-ordination of planning, budgeting & forecasting cycle for DB (Strategic Plan, Annual Plan, Rolling Forecasts).
- In charge of the budget uploads into systems (SAP & Anaplan platform)
- Drive the business and finance team to achieve the desired results with regards to the planning & forecasting processes

**Strategic Projects**
- Support the Strategic Controller with financial analysis for key strategic projects.
- Model & analyse strategic alternatives.
- Identify key drivers, external trends, internal & external benchmarks and assumptions to assist with strategy formulation.
- Participation in any other ad-hoc projects involving strategic business control function.

Your background and experience:

- Tertiary accounting qualification, Chartered Accountancy qualification desirable
- Commercial Finance experience
- Advanced Excel skills & commercial acumen
- Strong strategic analytical skills - ability to review complex, ambiguous/incomplete data, pulling out key insights
- Intellectual curiosity and ability to search out facts without prior process/guidance
- Passion for delivering results, taking ownership and translating insights into concise practical plans for execution
- Strong interpersonal/communication/influencing skills to win support and drive decision making
- Ability to visually present analysis, key insights, facts & figures in a compelling way; tailor content to audience
- Experience managing conflicting priorities to support multiple stakeholders and decision makers
- Ability to review, analyse and interpret large amounts of data with high accuracy in short timeframes. Information prepared is used in critical decision making.

You’ll join a business that enjoys innovating, and a culture that will support your learning and development. Your work will make a difference to the success of the business You’ll also get exposure to the DB leadership team and peers and across the wider global HEINEKEN network.