FP&A Specialist

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Whether you're early in your career or ready for your next step, Fonterra offers a unique opportunity to grow with a global dairy co-operative that values care, collaboration, and contribution.

Owned by New Zealand dairy farmers and supported by a dedicated team, we are all working together to create a better future. Imagine tomorrow with us, where your career can grow, and you can create positive change.

He kupu mō mātou | About us

Fonterra is a global dairy co-operative owned by New Zealand dairy farmers. Our Global Markets business connects our products with customers and consumers around the world, navigating dynamic markets, customer needs, supply considerations and commercial opportunities.

It’s a complex and fast-moving environment where strong financial insight, commercial thinking and disciplined planning help support better business decisions.

Mō tēnei tūranga | About the opportunity

We have an exciting permanent fulltime opportunity for a FP&A Specialist to join our Global Markets finance team.

We are looking for someone who enjoys turning data into meaningful insights and partnering with stakeholders to support business performance. You’ll work closely with your line manager, internal business leaders, and wider finance teams to deliver analysis, planning, forecasting, reporting and process support across your business unit.

You’ll take on more complex analysis and contribute to strategic decision-making through financial modelling, scenario analysis, variance commentary and practical recommendations. You’ll also support ongoing improvements to reporting, dashboards and finance processes, helping to ensure information is accurate, useful and aligned to business needs.

Ngā kawenga matua | What you’ll do:

• Support med to long term financial planning and help embed Group FP&A frameworks and standards across the business.
• Support budgeting and forecasting cycles, bringing together business inputs and providing insightful variance analysis and commentary.
• Undertake complex financial analysis, scenario modelling and investment appraisal to support strategic initiatives and business cases.
• Translate financial performance into clear insights and narratives for senior stakeholders.
• Support target setting and KPI tracking, identifying performance trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Provide analytical insight across revenue, cost, margin and working capital drivers.
• Support Integrated Business Planning, helping ensure financial and operational plans are aligned.
• Work collaboratively across Finance and the wider business to bring strong financial thinking into planning and decision-making.

Mōu | About you

You enjoy working with numbers, systems and people. You’ll be confident analysing information, asking thoughtful questions and translating financial data into insights that help stakeholders understand what is happening, why it matters and what actions to consider.

You’ll bring a continuous improvement mindset, a collaborative approach and the confidence to partner with stakeholders across a complex business environment.

The ideal candidate will have:

• 5+ years’ experience in finance or a related field, with strong cross-functional analytical finance capability.
• Strong commercial and business acumen.
• Experience in strategic financial planning and analysis.
• Advanced financial and scenario modelling capability.
• Strong analytical, collaborative and data-driven problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• An enterprise mindset and systems thinking.
• Strong technology and digital fluency.
• A relevant undergraduate degree in Finance, Economics or Accounting is highly preferred and CA or CFA qualified or currently working towards certification.

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