FP&A Center of Excellence Lead

At Te Mātāpuna Fonterra, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves.

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.

As the FP&A Centre of Excellence (CoE) Lead, you will bring deep understanding of leading practices, trends, and process design in finance and particularly in the FP&A domain, and be at the forefront of identifying, standardising, and optimising key finance processes. You will collaborate with our finance stakeholders, champion process innovation and position the FP&A function as a strategic enabler of business insights and decision-making through leading and implementing these transformative capability uplifts.

Key responsibilities include :

• Monitor and report FP&A process performance against KPIs, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and service level agreements.
• Identify and execute opportunities for FP&A process standardisation and optimisation, collaborating with stakeholders across finance, technology, and operations throughout the inception and embedding of these opportunities.
• Establish governance frameworks and mechanisms to continuously improve finance processes globally, leveraging tools, ideation sessions, and process repositories such as Signavio.
• Identify opportunities for FP&A process improvement. Gather and integrate feedback from stakeholders to refine improvement initiatives and ensure alignment with the Co-op strategic direction.
• Partner with senior leaders across the business to deliver strategic insights and actionable recommendations.
• Demonstrate strong understanding in FP&A, and other finance functional areas such as RTR, ITC, STP, MDM, and FP&A processes.
• Actively participate in the relevant CoE forums by sharing insights, leading practices, and lessons learned to foster collective growth and innovation.
• Design and deliver training initiatives to upskill finance teams on new tools, skills, processes, and best practices.

You’re a collaborative and strategic thinker who thrives on solving complex problems and driving meaningful change. With a strong focus on analysing current-state processes, you identify opportunities for improvement and support initiatives that uplift capability and embed best practices. Comfortable navigating ambiguity, you influence and align diverse stakeholder groups to deliver impactful outcomes and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Skills & Qualities that will help you succeed :

At Fonterra, our values of Good Together, Better Every Day, and Every Drop Counts, are for everyone - no matter your background, identify or experience. These values guide us in delivering exceptional outcomes for our farmers, customers, communities, and each other.

We care for our people globally. Our comprehensive benefits support your well-being, development, and work-life balance :

We welcome applications from all backgrounds (ethnicities, genders, identities, orientations, ages, abilities, neurotypes, cultures, religions).

He Wāhi mō te Katoa | Together, we're shaping a future of inclusion.

Inclusion is key to our Co-operative. We're building a team that reflects the diverse world we live in, believing it drives better decisions and innovation.

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