Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Overview

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that's transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win - adapting quickly in an ever changing world - and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come.

And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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This role supports strategic decision making by providing relevant, reliable, timely, insightful, and accurate financial analysis, and will have responsibility for certain aspects of the business group level annual planning and monthly forecasting process, annual strategic planning process, monthly management reporting, and business group headquarters financial functions. In this manager level role you will be expected to perform assignments, lead initiatives, and solve problems with high complexity and impact.

Your scope of responsibilities may include giving direction to first and second level colleagues and developing direct report(s).

• Act as a safety leader and put safety first in all responsibilities, promoting an environment where each employee makes safety their first priority
• Support completion and / or review of business group management reporting, providing accurate, consistent, and insightful reports and presentation materials to the executive leadership team
• Completion and / or review of business group headquarters month-end close variance analysis, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, and identifying levers to drive out performance; may include preparation and / or review of journal entries, account reconciliations, analysis of capital projects, and expense & trend analysis
• Drive implementation of and compliance with annual budgeting processes and monthly forecasting processes, including data requirements, timelines, and creating, maintaining, and training of Excel and Hyperion templates
• Facilitate annual operating plan discussions between function process owners and business unit finance teams, providing direction and clarity as needed, and escalating issues appropriately to adhere to deadlines
• Create, evaluate, and maintain financial models to support the annual strategic planning process
• Acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and key contact for sales reporting data and tools for broader finance team
• Liaison to Corporate Remuneration team for management and sales incentive plans, providing incentive plan information as requested; assist internal and external auditors pertaining to management incentive accruals
• Assess management incentive plan accrual levels and approve related account reconciliations, make accrual adjustment recommendations to Finance leadership, and audit sales incentive plan (SIP) pay-out calculations
• Prepare annual SG&A budgets for headquarters and business units; provide related reporting and analysis to executive leadership team and business unit finance, as requested
• Drive process improvements, consistent processes, and train direct reports and broader finance team on various tools and reports
• Prepare and analyze working capital and cash flow projections and analyze cash flow generated
• Build organizational capability by executing human capital processes including goal setting, performance reviews, human capital planning, and career development for all direct reports
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, accounting policies, and SOX, as relevant to accountabilities.

• Functional Competence - strong technical and analytical skills
• Accuracy & Timeliness
• Collaboration & Influencing - working well with others and working as a team to have a positive impact on business performance
• Team leadership & Initiative - focusing, aligning, and building effective teams
• Strategic Orientation - ability to think long-term, integratively, and beyond one s own area, can see the big picture
• Developing Organizational Capabilities - developing the long-term capabilities of others and the organization
• Change leadership - continuous improvement mind-set; setting tone for self and others

• Education - Bachelor s degree in Accounting or Finance
• Experience - 7+ years of experience; 3+ years of experience in a multi-business unit environment; 2+…