Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2024, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.
Position Purpose
Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for partnering with operations to drive financial performance? Sealed Air is seeking a Supply Chain Finance Business Partner to join our team in Melbourne. This is a high-impact role where you'll partner directly with manufacturing teams to drive operational excellence, cost control, budgeting, forecasting and support strategic financial initiatives. Your insights will help clarify key performance indicators and guide the site's value creation roadmap.
What You'll Do
Plant Accounting
- Maintain cost accounting records and information to determine and record costs by product, department, cost centre, profit centre, etc. Calculate annual Direct Manufacturing Costs.
- Ensure accuracy for labour, material, and variable overhead costs both for computing costs of new and existing products and for the revising of existing product prices.
- Ensure cost calculations are in line with policy.
Factory Reporting
- Publish weekly plant production and variance reports.
- Prepare accounting journals as required to present correctly monthly factory performance.
- Analyse cost information and prepare the factory reporting pack reports highlighting any variations from expected costs monthly.
- Present variance analysis on material, labour, and overhead usage on Days 3, 5 and FPMP calls.
- Ensure appropriate calculations and provisions for obsolete/slow-moving stock and inter-company profit eliminations.
- Attendance at Plant S&OP, Weekly Leadership Team Meetings and others as required.
- Support Plant in the reduction of Blocked Stock and Inventory.
- Supporting the Plant on WAVE saving calculations and approvals.
Business Analysis
- Provide accurate and timely advice and financial analysis including reviewing trends and variances from budget and prior year actual.
- Perform quarterly SOX testing as required.
- Costing Approvals required for Plant as required.
Business Plan
- Prepare the annual Budget for the plant in accordance with the budget objectives.
- Participate in the review and implementation process.
- Preparation of Executive Business Unit review slides and present them to the wider team.
External Products Finance – including but not limited to the following
- Supply Chain Journals (backup for Commercial as required)
- External Products DMC Management
- Co-ordinate External Products Portfolio budgets
Other Responsibilities
- Financial Business Partnership – Provide financial advice and support to key business leaders to manage business operations and performance effectively and efficiently.
- Operational Performance & Analysis – Identify gaps between forecasts to targets, and actuals to targets and assist in the development and agreement on strategy required.
- Financial Planning & Analysis – own the budgeting, forecasting and annual planning process for your business unit ensuring strategic alignment with business objectives.
- Financial Management Reporting – Manage and support the explanation and analysis of quality, timely and accurate routine, cyclic and ad-hoc financial management reports to support decision-making.
- Financial Modelling and Feasibility Assessments – provide support to the business on funding options, commercial strategies, project costing and business case preparation.
- Stakeholder relationship Management – establish collaborative relationships to meet business needs as well as coaching and contributing to business strategy.
What You'll Bring
- Accounting Degree or CA/CPA Qualified
- Costing experience in a manufacturing environment is essential
- Thorough understanding of cost accounting methods and procedures
- High attention to detail and strong written and verbal communication
- Strong reporting and presentation skills
- Experience in SAP software system (Financial) is a must, use of PPM, WAVE HFM/Onestream, and Power BI would be a bonus
- Proactive and personable
Why Join Sealed Air?
- Be part of a diverse and inclusive global team
- Work with innovative, industry-leading products and solutions
- Access to ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities
- Collaborate with talented professionals in a supportive and dynamic environment
- Make a real impact in a company that values integrity, determination, innovation, and collaboration
If you’re a motivated, high-performing professional ready to take the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you!
Please note: You must have the permanent Australian work rights to be considered for this role. A detailed job description is available.
Requisition id: 52152
Relocation: No
Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
- Please be cautious of fraudulent recruiting efforts using the Sealed Air name or logo. Sealed Air will never request private information during the application process, such as a Driver's License or Social Security Number. If you have any concerns about information received from SEE during the application process, please reach out to us directly at globalta@sealedair.com.
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