Sales Finance Business Partner

Job Description:

Mars Snacking is a global leader in snacking, backed by over a century of innovation and iconic brand-building. Powered by more than 50,000 Associates and over 80 production facilities globally, our beloved snacks – spanning confectionary, salty, cereal, noodles and frozen foods categories – are enjoyed in more than 180 countries around the world.

We’re on the lookout for a Sales Finance Business Partner (BP) to join our high performing Finance team

This Melbourne based role leads critical deliverables within the scope of Sales customer and channel strategy and trade promotion optimization, as well as providing rigorous financial governance over trade spending, pricing, and commercial resource allocation.

The Sales Finance BP will contribute to educating and upskilling sales and key account stakeholders in financial business acumen and in utilizing trade spend evaluation and self-service tools. The BP will share and leverage best practices through a commercial finance community of experts, industrializing repeatable standards across channels and accounts.

What You’ll Do

• Be a true business partner—supporting the delivery of targets set within operational plans through periodic account closing & S&OP+ cycles.
• Drive strategic decision-making by understanding market dynamics, competitive trends, and consumer behavior to uncover opportunities.
• Champion commercial insight by providing insights and thorough inputs to the operating plan, revised forecasts, and strategic planning cycles.
• Lead impactful projects by developing strategic partnerships with Key Account Teams, Strategic Revenue Management, and Category Management through a deep understanding of the competitive retail landscape and analyzing customer-specific environments.
• Fuel a value-creation mindset