About WAFEX
Wafex is Australia’s leading fresh and dried export flower company with offices and facilities in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane. Family-owned, the company was founded by CEO Craig Musson in 1991, and over the past 34 years has grown to become one of Australia’s leading wholesale and retail flower companies for both Australian and imported flowers. Globally, Wafex has offices in the USA (Los Angeles), Kenya (Nairobi) and Ecuador (Quito), and a further presence in 26 countries with a dedicated base of growers.

About the Opportunity
The role of Finance Manager - Reporting and Analysis is to provide insight into financial and operational performance and work with other departments to improve the profitability of Wafex. The successful candidate will have a foundation in preparing financial and management accounts and will have applied this knowledge to analyse and improve business performance. An ability to extract, analyse, validate and clearly present data is a key skillset for this role. The role reports into the Chief Operating Officer and is based in West Swan. This role has no direct reports.

Key Responsibilities:

Produce and circulate the monthly management accounts for all Wafex branches. Analyse the P&L and supporting data to identify variances, trends and areas for improvement.

Assist the COO in the production of the annual financial accounts, income tax return and FBT return.

Ownership of the Wafex Group reporting suite (daily/monthly/weekly), designing and building new reports to provide deeper insights into business performance.

Responsibility for ensuring inventory costing is accurate using direct and indirect costing.

Producing KPI’s for key areas of the business, analysing the reasons and trends behind the KPI’s and working with colleagues to improve.

Prepare adhoc reports and analysis as required.

Working with colleagues to produce and present the annual budget and reforecasts.

Skills & Experience requirements:

Qualified Financial Professional.

Responsibility for producing monthly management accounts and annual financial accounts.

Experience of direct and indirect costing methodologies.

Excellent financial and analytical skills, comfortable working with large volumes of data from different systems to analyse performance.

Responsibility for producing multi-branch budgets using different techniques to forecast performance as accurately as possible.

Comfortable working with colleagues from across the business.

Flexibility and curiosity, wants to learn new things and able to adapt and take on board new ideas and concepts.

Aligned with Wafex’s values of Safety, Teamwork, Accountability, Agility and Honour.

Previous experience of Business Central, Power BI and JET reports will be highly regarded.

Job Highlights:

There are many things that make WAFEX a preferred place to work, including:

Stability in a full time, permanent role in an established and progressive company.

Swan Valley location and on-site parking.

Fast paced, exciting and challenging role which touches all areas of Wafex's business.

Flexible working hours but please note this is a site based role.

Access to our employee assistance program (EAP) for you and your immediate family.

At Wafex, we take our core values seriously and create an environment where you feel welcomed. We value unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions each person brings to our community and celebrate diversity. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the community in which we live.