Overview
At Real Pet Food (RPF), we are passionate about being REAL. Real starts with food and extends to partnerships, ambition, ethics, and opportunities for our people to make their mark. Real means fresh ingredients and fresh methods. We are expanding, innovating, and competing in every pet category and channel with brands such as Ivory Coat, Billy & Margot, Fussy Cat, Nature's Gift, V.I.P. Petfoods, Nature's Goodness, Farmer's Market & Love Em!
The Australian pet food industry is a rapidly growing market, projected to reach approximately AUD 2.9 billion by 2025, and our goal is to be the trusted partner for consumers to provide balanced and FRESH nutrition to their pets.
As we craft our strategy for the future, everything we do aims to be environmentally sound and our growth ambitions are to be sustainable. We are a unique, talented, and hardworking team who communicate and collaborate across boundaries as one Real Pet family.
This is where you come in:
This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on and commercially minded Operations Finance Manager to join a high performing leadership team. This is a high-profile role reporting to the ANZ Head of Commercial & Operations Finance, where you will provide financial performance and value creation across the supply chain, ensuring cost efficiency, capital discipline, and operational excellence that enable RPF’s sustainable growth and competitiveness.
The role suits someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, capable of managing both financial operations and providing commercial insight to drive business outcomes. You will be a trusted partner to the leadership team, ensuring strong governance while driving continuous improvement in processes and systems, and leveraging technology and systems to simplify reporting, automate processes, and deliver actionable insights for operations.
What you’ll do
* Comply to group financial accounting policy, ensuring P&L and balance sheet financial management and control across all manufacturing sites.
* Collaborate with the operations team to develop and manage the operational budget as well as external auditors to maintain accurate records.
* Influence and drive improvement of cash and cost whilst ensuring productivity is identified and delivered.
* Monitor KPI's both financial and non-financial informing CFO and CEO of performance and risk.
* Lead a high-performing team, providing clear direction, coaching and development whilst ensuring team members are aligned with RPF's vision and objectives.
What will help you succeed?
* Previous Finance Management - Operations exposure and analytical experience in a consumer product, supply chain or manufacturing environment
* Solid experience with forecasting, reporting and data analysis. Being able to draw insights and tell the story behind the numbers.
* Commercial and sustained thinker
* P&L and cashflow understanding.
* Willing to get hands dirty - thrives in being part of RPF's transformation (transformation projects across ANZ)
* Being resilient and having a growth mindset
What we're about
Welcome to RPF, where we believe in keeping it Real. Since 1994, we have been Australia and New Zealand\'s pioneers in fresher dog and cat nutrition. Our story is one of passion for a better way to care for pets, a belief in fresher nutrition, and an unwavering commitment to delivering this to pet parents and pets worldwide. We\'re dedicated to fostering authentic partnerships, encouraging real ambition, and providing real career opportunities for our employees to make a difference. Real means fresher ingredients and fresher methods. We\'ll never stop expanding, innovating, and trying new things. We compete in every pet category and channel, creating favourite brands such as Ivory Coat, Nature's Gift, V.I.P. Petfoods, and Love Em & Fussy Cat!
Since the establishment of RPF, we have grown to over 900 people across Australia and New Zealand, China, Southeast Asia and Europe. With the pet industry growing rapidly (a $15 billion industry!) and pets becoming increasingly important in our lives and homes, this is a unique opportunity to be a part of our remarkable growth story and advance your career.
Why join us?
* Do work that matters. We\'re pioneering in a new area of pet food, always striving for fresher.
* Make an impact and change the game. You\'ll have full trust and autonomy to do your best work and make a real difference. If you have ideas for new products or system improvements, we\'re all ears!
* Growing and global. We\'re growing fast and now have a global presence across APAC and Europe, and we\'re only getting started.
* Work with a pack of awesome, genuine people who are passionate about what they do.
* Grow your career with us. We value lifelong learning with access to LinkedIn Learning, internal mobility, and leadership training to fast-track your career.
* Pets part of our family: bring your pet to our Crows Nest office, access Pawrental leave when you adopt a cat or dog, pet carer and compassionate leave.
* Generous perks including day off for your anniversary, product discounts, volunteering days, novated leases, rewards program, and parental leave.
What’s next?
If you\'re ready to unleash your potential and make a real difference in the booming pet industry, we want to hear from you. Next steps include:
* An initial telephone interview followed by 2 face to face interviews
* 2 work references
* A psychometric test
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is in our DNA. If you need any reasonable adjustments, accessibility assistance or would like to note pronouns, contact accommodations: people&culture@realpetfoodco.com.au. We look forward to hearing from you.
Please note: NO agencies will be considered during this process. We encourage you to refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles
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