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As the lead FP&A partner for Retail, and a key partner to Marketing Activation, the position turns financial insight into action by shaping strategy, influencing investment decisions and helping stakeholders deliver sustainable business performance.\nThe role combines strategic business partnering with hands-on ownership of forecasting, budgeting, reporting and critical analysis. It offers broad exposure across the Pacific business, regular engagement with senior stakeholders, and the opportunity to constructively challenge thinking, identify cross-functional impacts and improve how financial decisions are made. 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practical business actions.\nConsolidate and analyse total operating expenditure by cost centre and expenditure type, comparing actual performance against forecast and identifying material variances.\nPrepare accurate OPEX forecasts and projections and meet all related reporting requirements.\nContinuously improve FP&A processes to increase efficiency and accuracy, including identifying opportunities to use AI and automation tools.\nAct as second-in-command within the FP&A team and support the broader Finance team with ad hoc analysis and other priorities as required.\nKPIS:\nAccuracy and timeliness of rolling forecasts, annual budgets and financial reporting submissions.\nQuality and commercial impact of financial insights, recommendations and business cases provided to Retail and Marketing Activation stakeholders.\nEffective management and analysis of Retail performance, marketing expenditure and total operating expenditure against forecast and budget.\nDelivery of process 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