Woolworths

• Join our award-winning finance function and discover remarkable career growth in an inclusive environment
• Bring your whole self to work and help us strive to create a workforce that reflects the diversity of our community
• We support a range flexible work options, including an active discussion of specific requirements for the individual, that balance the needs of our team, customers, and partners
  
  

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 work in a flexible work environment, including working from home 2 days per week, multiple on-site locations, job sharing 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

This is a pivotal role, acting as a key strategic partner to the GM Commercial Finance and the Directors of Grocery and Fresh across W Retail. You will be instrumental in driving business performance (primarily Sales and GP across all of W Retail) and shaping strategy, focusing on identifying and pursuing sustainable future revenue streams and the next stage of growth.

You will lead and develop a team, serve as the 2IC to the GM Commercial Finance with senior delegation authority and own crucial financial insights including Overheads, Capital and Working Capital. A significant part of the role involves driving the future of finance by leveraging AI and automation to step change the delivery and actioning of sales and profit performance across the commercial function.

What you’ll do

• Drive Financial Performance & Reporting: Steer the delivery of $55B in Sales, $20B in GPBF and $180M in OH targets, providing insightful analysis, commercial recommendations and leading regular business performance reviews to resolve issues and ensure initiative success.

• Lead Planning & Forecasting Cycle: Own and manage the end to end Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process, ensuring strategic alignment and drive the monthly and weekly forecasting cycles to provide early insight on key drivers for timely course correction and cost control.

• Provide Strategic Decision Support: Identify and drive key profit drivers and opportunities for business improvement across all sales categories, ensuring that long term financial targets are backed by sound strategic thinking and strong business cases.

• Elevate Continuous Improvement: Lead change by identifying and implementing process improvements and system enhancements to achieve a standard, lean and efficient operating model in collaboration with Group Systems and Data teams and ensuring data integrity across finance.

• Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Work closely with the Commercial Leadership Team, GM Commercial Finance, and multiple partner teams (e.g., Meat, eCom, Loyalty, Format) to align strategic goals, understand performance drivers and ensure adherence to financial controls.

• Lead and Develop the Team: Provide strong leadership, coaching and mentoring to the commercial finance team, fostering a culture of high performance and managing change effectively across multiple stakeholder groups.

What you’ll bring 

We are looking for a seasoned candidate with a minimum of 1 year of lived in experience in a similar Head Of role with demonstrated Commercial experience.

• Proven Strategic Leadership & Commercial Acumen: Extensive experience) in a large, complex and fast moving commercial sales retail environment. You must possess advanced skills in strategy development, making complex commercial decisions and translating external trends into actionable insights.

• Exceptional Business Partnering & Influence: Demonstrated ability to act as a strategic partner to senior leadership, leveraging advanced influencing and negotiating skills to shape the business agenda and ensure financial insights drive key decisions from concept through implementation.

• Financial Expertise & Execution: A CA/CPA qualification paired with the ability to see the big picture, ensure sound financial planning and expertly manage projects to deliver outcomes on time and to budget.

• Focus on Innovation and Continuous Improvement: A strong Agile and Growth Mindset, demonstrating the courage to innovate and think creatively (e.g. leveraging AI/automation) and driving the maintenance and enhancement of financial systems for improved process efficiency.

• Advanced People Leadership: Proven experience in managing and coaching a multi functional team, providing advanced mentoring and development and setting challenging goals to foster continuous growth and high performance within the team.

• Superior Communication & Analytical Skills: Advanced analytical and problem solving capabilities coupled with the ability to communicate complex financial information simply and effectively to a broad audience, ensuring clear understanding and prioritised focus on key business requirements.

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