Sr. Financial Analyst, IT

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 300 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ 11,000 people and operate in more than 55 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact. 

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Job Description

Position Purpose

• The position supports the IT Finance Manager in providing finance reporting, analysis and business partnering support to the IT function, responsible for both Opex and capex spend and supporting on business cases.
• Responsible for tracking BUP initiative spend, reporting actual costs, monitoring, and reporting variances to plan.
• This position supports managing budgeting, forecasting and several towers (Digital, Supply Chain, IMETA & APAC Business Partner and NA Business Partner) within Global IT as well as other budgeting activities, notably Allocation control
• This position will have responsibilities pertaining monthly close for Global IT, periodic IT forecasts, quarterly corporate forecasts, Yearly Budget and 4-year plan
• This position will support cash forecasting for IT

Scope

Global group wide – IT Corporate function.

Measures

• Through the process of supporting the business, this position can make recommendations that support business strategy/performance/initiatives and to meet the annual budget.
• Efficient and timely financial reporting on spend in IT function Towers, both opex & capex.
• Precision of analysis, insights & commentary on the financial results and performance.
• Forecast / budget opex and capex spend accuracy.
• Tracking accuracy of BUP initiatives.

Major/Key Accountabilities

• Analysis of period end opex and capex expenditure to provide understanding & commentary on the financial results and performance of the function.
• Identifies potential risks/opportunities in the financial plans, with actionable insights to enable corrective action to be taken where required.
• Responsible for accurate tracking and reporting of spend (opex & capex) on IT BUP initiatives.
• Proactively supports stakeholders by providing financial guidance in relation to their opex and capex spend.
• Support the process of measuring, tracking, and reporting investments (costs and benefits); helping conduct financial analysis on new projects and initiatives and providing financial input to business cases.  Ensures adherence to financial guidelines & project reviews.
• Responsible for ensuring accuracy of the monthly forecast and annual budget process (templates, data review and consolidation, presentations).
• Responsible for annual allocation charges and budget Allocation model

Challenges/ Problem Solving

• Must provide financial advice to IT stakeholders related to accruals, POs, forecasting, tracking project spend.
• Ability to work across different time zones and cultures both within IT function, the Corporate Finance team and across the regional business units.
• Leads the monthly forecast cycles for IT, including review and challenge of monthly forecast submissions, to ensure achievement of budget targets

Authority/ Decision Making

• Provides view on completeness/soundness of financial business cases and capex requests for IT PMs

Key contacts

• IT Finance Manager
• IT Finance Business Partner
• Director of Finance – IT, HR & Safety
• CI