Sales Finance Manager, International Personal Care

It starts with you. Right here at KC-AU

You might have heard of us. You might not. But you definitely know our trusted brands, like Huggies, Kleenex and Viva. In fact, we’ll wager you’ve probably used our products today!

Kimberly-Clark is a global personal care company. Spanning over 300 locations, our notable brands are an essential part of life for one-quarter of the world’s population.

We’re proud of our size, scale and impact. But when you join us, you’ll find there’s much more to who we are. Because a role with us is about the care you take, the connections you make and the opportunity to build a better world.

Bring your big ambition and make a visible, meaningful difference, right here, with K-C Australia.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Purpose:

Reporting to the Commercial Finance Manager, the role is responsible for business partnering the Australian Sales team, ensuring controls of trade spend are performed and tracking the Sales performance of the ANZ – IPC business against benchmarks.

Your focus is to drive business in year performance, help in the development of short to mid-term strategy, and help drive in year execution with the sales team.

You will work as a member of the Sales Leadership team, working very closely with the IPC Sales Director. The role has one direct report.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business partner with the ANZ Sales Director on decision support and build strong relationships with their Australian customer team.

• Deliver robust monthly Sales IBP forecasts, reflecting current & emerging business impacts. Review and challenge monthly customer forecasts in pre-demand reviews ensuring robust numbers are reviewed at the monthly Demand Review meeting. Communicate the monthly drivers of movement in the Australian net sales forecast. Work with the Sales team to develop incremental forecast opportunities.

• Conduct the month end control processes on Trade Spend – ensuring that trade spend is accurately recorded.

• Work on the development of Customer Specific Annual Business Plans. Develop, review and track joint business plans made between KCA and external customers to ensure that opportunities are mutually beneficial and drive the targeted behaviours and financial outcomes. 

• Conduct pre and post promotional evaluation. Analyse the expected outcome of planned promotional and provide insights into drivers of promotional results.

• Monitor monthly Sales results, providing the CFO with weekly updates on monthly sales projection against target and forecast. Monitor and report monthly trade spend against targets and ensure correct accrual bookings at month end.

• Support the other Finance functions through analysis support on ad-hoc business projects.

• Prepare ad-hoc analysis supporting the Sales Leadership team decisions

• Continuously challenge and improve existing business and finance processes.

• Perform Finance training for Sales managers – ensure that the Sales team has strong financial capability, understand the drivers of profitability in the business and can access and interpret financial data.

About You:

Required Experience:

• A relevant degree qualification in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration and CA or CPA qualified.

• Experience working in FMCG will be highly regarded.

• Demonstrated experience in Senior Commercial roles displaying well developed analytical, decision making and influencing skills.

• You are an energetic, forward-thinking and creative individual with high ethical standards.

• A passion for people development with excellent communication skills.

Why Kimberly-Clark Australia?

At Kimberly-Clark, we’re about delivering incredible results, making things happen, and working together. And when we get that right, we win.

There's a reason why we've made the Forbes World's Best Employers list in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Here, our culture of care and inclusion really matters, and so does high performance. We continue to push ourselves to improve. Because we’re proud of how far we’ve come. And we’re excited about where we’re headed.

Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:

• Drive local impact on a global scale: A career with Kimberly-Clark is about delivering Better Care for a Better World. We do this through local care and connection. Join us and you’ll find over 800 dedicated team members helping to deliver our brands to over 2.1 billion people in 175 countries. And counting. Now THAT is impact at scale

• Win in a culture of inclusion and care: We’re all different and so is every K-C ANZ team. But you’ll soon find the common ground that keeps our high-performing teams connected. You’ll see that here, it’s not politics and egos that propel you forward; it’s integrity and trust

• Be bold and own your incredible career opportunity: You don’t have to move abroad to build a global career, but here, you have the choice if you want to! At K-C ANZ, you’ll find opportunity for the taking. You won’t get lost in the noise and you’ll thrive and grow professionally and personally

You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits including:

• Find a better work/life balance with hybrid and flexible working options, tailored to suit your lifestyle plus Flex Fridays

• Access 16 weeks of paid parental leave for primary carers and 6 weeks for secondary carers

• Take advantage of 2 recharge days and 1 volunteer day each year

• Enjoy discounts across the range of Kimberly-Clark products

• Benefit from a variety of discounted products and services including health insurance, loan rates and novated leasing

• Purchase up to 2 weeks extra annual leave

• Look after your social, physical and mental wellbeing with our free wellness and mental health resources and social events

• Grow your skills and knowledge with our tailored leadership and development programs, mentoring opportunities plus hundreds of online training courses

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and will be in contact with additional information accordingly.

In the meantime, feel free to browse our website for additional information on our company, brands and culture - Kimberly-Clark Corporation.

It all starts with you. Are you ready?

Apply today and discover what a fulfilling and balanced career looks like.

At Kimberly-Clark, we’re committed to providing opportunities to the best candidates without regard for race, colour, religion or gender identity. We’re proud to be recognised in Australia as an Employer of Choice by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and to be Rainbow Tick accredited in New Zealand.

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. K-C will not provide relocation support for this role.