FP&A Consultant

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Lead adoption of enterprise CPM tools (SAP SAC, Power BI, or equivalent).

• Build reporting for trading and product contribution margin.
• Ensure data quality and single-source-of-truth structures for performance reporting.

Leadership and Influence:

• Lead cross-functional performance dialogues, including monthly performance reviews, risk reviews, and strategic planning sessions.
• Coach analysts and stakeholders on interpreting commodity-driven performance drivers.
• Drive performance drivers.
• Mentor wider FP& A and operational finance teams in understanding margin dynamics and drivers of volatility.
• Partner to drive long-term outcomes for the Business.

Strategic Performance Frameworks:

• Working with Finance to ensure alignment of long-term and near-term plans
• Lead development and continuous improvement of the enterprise performance management (IBP) framework, ensuring alignment across Trading, Operations, Logistics, Manufacturing, and Commercial functions.
• Translate commodity market movements, input cost volatility, FX impacts, and supply chain constraints into actionable performance insights for senior leaders.
• Drive standardisation of planning, performance and reporting processes across the business units.

Market & Margin Analytics:

• Drive overall understanding of drivers and insights into performance, including Margins.
• Margin Analytics - Produce margin per unit/margin per product analysis incorporating commodity price curves, cost curves, and market supply/demand dynamics
• Integrate operational KPIs (yield, throughput, energy use, working capital) with Sales and Optimisation financial KPIs to create a unified performance view.
• Provide insights into Optimisation (swing) decisions (e. g., product mix optimisation, channel allocation, plant utilisation).

Scenario Analysis and Decision Support:

• Lead complex multi-variable scenario modelling (commodity prices, global demand, weather impacts, geopolitical shifts, supply disruptions).
• Support strategic investment decisions including capacity expansions, asset maintenance cycles, and capital optimisation.
• Run sensitivities for pricing, cost shocks, operational disruptions, and supply-chain changes.
• Provide clear financial narratives to support decision-making at leadership levels.

Performance Management Support:

• Target setting and KPI tracking for the business unit.
• Drive continuous performance monitoring, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Provide analytical support on revenue, cost, margin, working capital drivers, store forecasting, profitability analysis or occupancy on shelves
• Support cost recoveries through allocation models or chargebacks from operations or other business units

Integrated Business Planning (IBP):

• Ensure IBP integrates demand, supply, inventory, production planning and commercial strategy into a single enterprise plan.
• Critically evaluate plan assumptions using demand forecasts, commodity price outlooks, cost curves and market intelligence.
• Ensure alignment between financial plan, S& OP, and operational plans, especially in volatile market environments.

Requirements:

• Skills, knowledge, and experience required: 10+ years' experience in Commercial Portfolio Management, FP& A, Business Performance, or Commercial Finance within a commodity-based environment such as oil and gas, grocery retail/wholesale/liquor store, grain/soft commodities, mining, metals, CPG, Beverages, manufacturing, banking or energy markets.

Deep commercial and operational understanding:

• Experience working with commodity markets, price curves, hedging, supply/demand analytics, or trading.
• Understanding of global supply chains, production economics, and asset-intensive operations.
• Experience connecting financial performance with operational and market drivers.

Advanced analytical and modelling capability:

• Strong skills in scenario modelling, cost curves, sensitivity analysis, optimisation models, and price-volume-mix.
• Experience with advanced analytics or forecasting tools used in commodity industries.

Systems and digital capability:

• Advanced Excel financial modelling, large datasets, pivot analysis, complex lookups.
• SAP ECC or equivalent ERP report extraction, cost centre mapping, GL codes.
• Enterprise Reporting, Data and Systems Support the Finance Business Partner, FP& A Manager, and Divisional General Manager in team leadership, planning, and execution of key initiatives.