We are global, we are impacting the lives of millions every day, we are making a difference!  

At Amcor we are inspired to change the packaging industry and are taking on the aspirational challenge to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025. Through our products and global footprint, we are in a unique position to truly make a difference in the packaging space. Our products impact the lives of millions of people across the globe every day from food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other essential products. Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$13 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860’s and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 50,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 250 sites.   

Will you be next to join our journey towards a more sustainable future? At Amcor we are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to providing sustainable packaging solutions. To find out more about our commitment to sustainability and about Amcor, visit www.amcor.com.  

Job Description

Job Overview

This role will serve as the finance partner to the Global Flexibles R&D Chief Technology Officer and liaise with the Global Flexibles R&D Leadership team and with the Finance function. This role provides end-to-end finance process understanding and combines that with function understanding to support ongoing financial operations processes, projects and other requirements. The scope will include items such as annual budgeting, forecasting, reporting, allocation method partnership, general reviews, expense and capital support.

Job Dimensions

• Geographical scope: Global Flexibles R&D which includes corporate and business group connectivity.
• Direct Reports:  None
• Decision-Making Authority: Advises, reports, proposes – leads through influence
• Functional dimensions: Global role, working with Amcor Business Groups and Corporate teams with frequent interactions across R&D and finance.

Accountabilities

• Act as a safety champion, putting safety first and promoting a culture where employees make it safety their priority.
• Partner with R&D leadership, providing key insights and support to strategic and operating plans, improving financial processes and supporting the implementation of best practices.
• Provide comprehensive financial management service to the global function, ensuring the linkage of applicable components.
• Maintain and continuously improve the financial infrastructure (systems, processes and procedures) to support business initiatives and ongoing operations including budgeting, strategic planning, forecasting, reporting protocols, KPIs and dashboard development and tracking, cost allocation strategies, project accounting, etc.
• Support the annual budget, month and quarterly forecasts, and financial comparisons and explanations of actual results versus the financial plans, forecasts and estimates.
• Drive standardization of monthly financial performance closing, including effective use of analyses for reporting and tracking, and accurate, timely reporting and analysis.
• Support global function-dedicated analytics and processes to optimally serve the function and meet corporate and BG needs.
  • Articulate and explain financial metrics and reports (e.g. MMR’s) and ensure compliance.
  • Develop and track progress on operating plans and performance measurement.
  • Provide content for financial targets, obligations and metrics.
• Drive adherence to designation of authority, Amcor Policies & financial governance (e.g. Capex).
• Supervise, review and interpret all global month/quarter/year-end financial reports as well as month-end close processes.
• Coordinate monthly and/or quarterly management reports, ensuring consistency and quality of insightful variance analysis.
• Support the preparation and analysis of various targeted focus areas (sustainability, vitality, etc.). 
• Analyze and interpret financials to identify trends driving results and make recommendations on potential changes to improve global performance.
• Support compliance with internal controls, Amcor accounting policies, USGAAP and SOX.
• Support development of capital investment requests and capital performance – recommend options to maximize results. Partner in developing capital. requests which may include liaising with others owning the work but ensuring clarity and alignment.
• Provide support to R&D members on strategic initiatives in financial related items.
• Drive simplification and standardization in all function-wide financial processes.
• Support cost and capital discipline followed by actions – ensuring clear understanding.
• Support additional projects as applicable, aligned toward sustaining or enhancing function financial capabilities and/or results.

Relationships

Internal

• R&D Flexibles Leadership (CTO, BG and Corporate VPs)
• Finance Function Leaders and Members
• R&D Function Leaders and Members
• HR Function Leaders and Members
• Other functions as applicable

External

• Generally, less external relationships expected to be required. The role may work with service suppliers/vendors, consultants and /or auditors

Qualifications/Requirements

Formal Qualifications and Experience

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting or Finance required, MBA preferred; professional certifications could be advantageous.
• 5-7 years of experience in Finance with roles of increasing responsibility. 2 years financial planning and analysis preferred.
• 2 years of experience within Amcor strongly preferred.
• Manufacturing industry experience preferred. 
• Experience working across a matrix organization (indirect leadership).

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Behaviours

• Additional element for success: command skills, managerial courage, influencing, process management, change management, business acumen, strategic agility, emotional intelligence, conflict management, cultural sensitivity and awareness, effective communications including across teams and regions, strong analytical skills – including proven financial and cost analysis, MS Office, fluency in English required and additional language capability is advantageous.
• Ability to travel up to ~20% which is situational to the role location and its requirements to work across the function.

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click on the links  "EEO is the and "EEO is the Law" Poster Supplement. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please call 224-313-7000 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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