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About the Role
Partner with factory, supply chain, and finance teams to provide critical costing insights, improve business performance, and support strategic decision-making across manufacturing operations. This role offers a unique career pathway, starting at the Nestlé Head Office in Rhodes and progressing into a finance role within a factory, providing end-to-end exposure and accelerating development.
Responsibilities
- Deliver insights that improve manufacturing performance, profitability, and efficiency.
- Drive forecasting and business planning activities that support key operational decisions.
- Partner with factory and cross-functional teams to identify cost-saving opportunities and deliver continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide expert insights on product costing, materials, and manufacturing processes to support operational excellence.
- Help shape best-practice ways of working while ensuring strong financial governance and controls.
Requirements
- Experience in FMCG, manufacturing finance, costing, or a factory-based finance environment.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn complex data into clear insights and business recommendations.
- A natural relationship builder who partners effectively across functions and builds strong stakeholder relationships.
- Confidence to influence stakeholders, challenge constructively, and drive better business outcomes.
- A proactive, continuous improvement mindset with a passion for finding smarter ways of working.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to embrace new technologies and digital tools, including AI.
- Ambition to grow your career, with the potential to progress into broader operational and leadership opportunities.
- Full Australian working rights.
- Applicants may be required to undergo pre-employment checks, including but not limited to health checks, prior to appointment to this role.
Skills
- Analytical thinking
- Commercial partnering
- Costing insights
- Forecasting
- Business planning
- Cost-saving identification
- Continuous improvement
- Product costing
- Manufacturing processes
- Financial governance
- Financial controls
- Relationship building
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing
- Constructive challenge
- Proactive mindset
- Adaptability
- Embracing new technologies
- Digital tools
- AI
Location
- Rhodes
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline.
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + attractive bonus program
Benefits
- Up to 5 ‘KitKat Days’ each year to rest, recharge and support your wellbeing
- Personalised development and varied career opportunities within a global FMCG leader
- Wellbeing perks including free flu vaccinations, discounted private health insurance, and discounted gym memberships
- Access to Purchased Leave, Volunteering Leave, Sports Leave and Emergency Services Leave
- Up to 18 weeks Paid Parental Leave
- Discounts on Nestlé products and offers from our retail and service partners
- Novated leasing options
- Salary sacrifice to superannuation
About the Company
- At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference.
- We do this by fostering an inclusive, diverse, and collaborative environment, embracing innovation, and empowering people and teams to win.
- We aim to hire respectful, curious, value driven and inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
- Be a force for good.
- For more information, please visit our website Nestlé Australia Home | Nestlé Australia (nestle.com.au)