Finance Business Partner - Commercial

About Us

Home to the iconic brand Villa Maria, our vision is to be one of the world’s great wine companies, sharing the best of New Zealand wine with the world. 
Our grapes come from over 6,000 hectares of planted vineyards and blended in our wineries across three of the renowned wine regions - Marlborough, Hawke’s Bay, and Gisborne. 
We’ve been pioneers of wine industry practices since 2003 - we’re passionate about wine and we love what we do!

The Role

Play a lead role in supporting Sales and Marketing teams to achieve their performance objectives. This will include:

• Be a trusted advisor to the sales and marketing teams to support their financial decision making
• Key commercial lead on new product development and portfolio optimisation
• Build commercial acumen, strategy development & performance focus in the teams you partner with
• Provide appropriate financial ROI analysis & tools to support decision-making and to ensure optimal allocation & returns on marketing or trade spend projects
• Lead month-end review processes with your key business partners to drive gap closures, risk and opportunity formation, and deliver key actionable insights to the wider business to drive business change as part of the IBP process:
• Review and control trade spend/A&P spend to ensure optimal spending, accurate monthly & year-end recognition of accruals & rebates, including allocation to brands, products & customers to support analysis
• Support projects to drive efficiencies and improvements to ways of working and reporting by embracing a continuous improvement mindset
• Support in driving system and reporting efficiencies and integration of a new forecasting tool – Workday adaptive.
• Support projects to drive efficiencies and improvements to ways of working, build commercial tools and processes, and advancements in insightful reporting 

About you

• 5+ years background in accounting and finance
• Finance Business Partner experience with the ability to engage independently with different functions within the business, preferably in an FMCG environment
• CA/CPA qualified (ideally, but not essential)
• Customer pricing and new product development experience would be highly desirable
• Finance Business Partner experience with the ability to engage independently with different functions within the business, preferably in an FMCG environment
• Able to rapidly evolve finance ways of working to meet strategic shifts in the business
• Ability to work with large data sets with Excel, previous experience of PowerQuery and Business Intelligence tools. 

On Offer

•    Competitive Salary + Phone + Wine Allowance + Wellness Allowance
•    Southern Cross Health Insurance
•    1x “You Day” per year to do what you choose
•    Option to purchase an additional 2 weeks of annual leave
•    Additional company-paid parental leave
•    Positive, friendly, and passionate work culture, with occasional wine tastings
•    Flexible working 
•    Dog-friendly office

Our Culture

• We think our culture is pretty special. We have talented teams working in a variety of breath-taking locations. Our priority and investment in the wellbeing and diversity of our people is core to our purpose.
• We're all about authenticity and transparency so rather than bombard you with corporate jargon- here's the real Indevin:  
• We're a good ol' Kiwi company who is proud to be a wine industry leader and we have years of hard work to thank for it
• Our business is proudly spearheaded by the Villa Maria Brand
• We take our work, but not ourselves, too seriously
• We work with people from all over the world because our diversity makes us stronger
• We're very passionate about what we do. We love wine, sharing our knowledge and making Indevin an inspiring place to work