Woolworths

• Gepps Cross, Adelaide based with hybrid working model
• Permanent Full time
• Work within a collaborative team environment

We are Woolworths Group
We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’ It’s that Purpose that 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 that reflects the diverse communities we serve. 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.

Welcome to the Finance Team
We believe that the Woolworths Finance team is a high performing, innovative and diverse team across Australia and New Zealand, and is an amazing place to advance your career.
Our teams have multiple flex options, including working from home, multiple on-site locations, job sharing, compressed workweeks and part-time working arrangements. We are committed to flexibility and believe that it should be mutually beneficial. We understand flexibility means different things to different people. Let's discuss, what does flexibility look like for you?

The Opportunity
The Business Analyst role exists to provide financial and analytical reporting in line with business cadence. The Business Analyst has responsibility for financial reporting, forecasting and budget management across the DC. This role will also work closely with Operations Excellence to support productivity activities.

What you’ll do

• This is a 2-day per week onsite role within site operating hours, with the flexibility to work hybrid across the state support office and home.
• Lead, coach, and mentor operations, fostering a customer-first culture that delivers excellent results.
• Champion safety values and implement safety, health, and environment policies and systems, embedding safety into the culture and work practices.
• Report and monitor performance against the relevant business case.
• Conduct insightful financial analysis of Distribution Centres (DCs) to understand key drivers, identify impacts, and recommend corrective actions.
• Publish accurate and timely financial and non-financial reports and targets, collaborating with stakeholders to gather necessary information.   This includes providing volume and non-financial metric forecasts.
• Deliver high-quality weekly and monthly business performance presentations, articulating key drivers and insights, supporting the Monthly Forecast and Annual and Quarterly Delivery Cycle, partnering with stakeholders to review and challenge performance drivers, improving reporting through automation and process improvements, providing actionable insights to the DC Management Team, preparing financial analysis for projects (e.g., DC enterprise agreement negotiations), and providing financial decision support to the management team as required.

What you’ll bring

• CA/CPA or other professional accounting qualification preferred
• Experience using systems GCP, IPA, Excel, Google Slides
• Strong data & analytical acumen
• Experience in process improvement
• Strong presentation, storyboarding, and stakeholder management skills
• Able to communicate complex financial information to a broad audience
• Experience in Supply Chain, automation or manufacturing would be highly advantageous

What you’ll experience

• A progressive and flexible ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy that gives you more control over your work, life and wellbeing.
• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers plus paid superannuation for up to 12 months while the Team Member is on parental leave - eligible from the first day of employment

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
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.

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.

Woolworths Group is an inclusive, team-first company and we value all skills and experiences. If you meet some, but not all of the requirements, we encourage you to submit your application.