FP&A Analyst

The Senior ASP plays a critical role in connecting enterprise strategy, market volatility, and operational execution across Fonterra's business. This role is responsible for partnering with BU's as necessary, leading performance frameworks, both reporting and forward-looking, driving forward-looking analysis, and embedding integrated performance management.

Drawing on experience in consumer goods, retail grocery and wholesale, and the liquor industry (dairy, oil and gas, grain, mining, energy, or chemicals), this role brings deep understanding of cost drivers, margin volatility, capacity constraints, market risk, manufacturing, supply chain, product costing, and capital allocation tradeoffs. The role provides strategic insights to understand past performance and drive future performance, scenario modelling, and decision support to executive stakeholders, ensuring financial and operational performance are tightly aligned to strategic objectives and market realities.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

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 standardization of planning, performance, and reporting processes across the business units.

Market and 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 optimization financial KPIs to create a unified performance view.
• Provide insights into optimization (swing) decisions (e. g., product mix optimization, channel allocation, plant utilization).

Scenario Analysis and Decision Support:

• Lead complex multi-variable scenario modelling (commodity prices, global demand, weather impacts, geopolitical shifts, and supply disruptions).
• Support strategic investment decisions, including capacity expansions, asset maintenance cycles, and capital optimization.
• 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 plans, S& OP, and operational plans, especially in volatile market environments.

Requirements:

• Qualifications: CA, BCom, MCom.
• Years of Experience: Fresher.
• Qualifications required: Graduate/postgraduate degree in finance, economics, or accounting preferred. CA/ICWA/CPA is not required, but it is preferred.
• Skills, knowledge, and experience are 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, optimization 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 center mapping, GL code

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.
• 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. driven 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.