Commercial Finance Manager ANZA

This is a high-impact, business-critical role at Clorox – the Commercial Finance Manager for ANZA sits at the heart of decision-making, partnering closely with Sales and Marketing to drive profitable growth across Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

You’ll take the reins on commercial P&L performance, leading the charge on revenue growth management (NRM) and ensuring trade and marketing investments are sharp, strategic, and delivering real ROI. This role goes beyond reporting – it’s about shaping the future of the business through forward-looking insights that influence pricing, customer strategy, and innovation.

With a strong regional lens, you’ll play a key role in delivering Net Customer Sales, Gross Margin, and Operating Profit, while bringing visibility to risks and opportunities across the cluster.

Reporting to the ANZA Finance Director, you’ll also lead and develop a team of two Financial Analysts – building capability and driving a high-performance, commercially focused finance function.

What we look for:

Commercial Business Partnering

• Act as the primary finance partner to the ANZA Sales Director and Marketing Director to support commercial strategy and execution.

• Provide financial leadership in customer negotiations, pricing decisions, promotional strategies, and distribution expansion.

• Deliver actionable insights on performance drivers, risks and opportunities to the ANZA Leadership Team.

• Lead and manage team to develop and expand strategic financial partnership capabilities with a focus on high performance, cross functional partnership and building capability

P&L Performance Management

• Own the delivery of Net Customer Sales, Gross Margin and SBU profit across Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

• Lead commercial forecasting, annual planning and monthly performance reviews to the cluster.

• Identify profit risks and opportunities early and drive corrective actions with cross-functional teams.

Revenue Growth Management (NRM)

• Lead the ANZA NRM agenda, including pricing strategy, trade investment optimizations, promotional effectiveness, and mix improvement.

• Drive governance and transparency of Reduced revenue and Trade Spend investments across key customers.

• Partner with global and AMEA teams to implement NRM best practices and strengthen commercial analytic capabilities.

Commercial Investment Governance

• Evaluate A&SP and customer investments to ensure strong ROI and alignment with strategic growth priorities.

• Support major innovation launches and distribution expansion with clear profitability roadmaps.

• Ensure balanced decision making between short-term profit delivery and long-term brand health.

Experience:

• 10+ years of progressive finance experience with strong commercial finance exposure (essential)

• Proven experience in business partnering with Sales and Marketing organizations.

• Strong track record managing P&L performance and driving profitable growth.

• Experience in revenue growth management, pricing strategy, and trade investment optimization.

• Experience working in multinational FMCG or consumer goods environment preferred.

• Experience in people management and development of high performing teams

Skills and Abilities

• Strong commercial acumen with ability to translate financial insights into business decisions.

• Advanced financial modeling and scenario analysis capability

• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills across senior leadership teams.

• Ability to simplify complex data into clear and compelling business insights.

• Strong collaboration and cross-functional leadership capability.

• High ownership mindset with strong problem-solving capability.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field.

• MBA or professional finance qualification (CPA, CA, CFA) preferred.

About The Clorox Company

Clorox Australia and New Zealand is part of The Clorox Company - a global consumer goods company that employs more than 9000 employees around the world, manufactures in more than two dozen countries and markets in more than 100 countries. Being part of a leading global company gives us a rich history and access to a wide network of global internal resources. 

We have some leading household brands such as:

     GLAD® food care and waste disposal products.

     GLAD To Be Green® sustainable food care and waste disposal products.

     Chux® cleaning cloths, sponges and scourers.

     Burt’s Bees® natural personal care products.

     GUMPTION® multi-purpose cleanser.

     Handy Andy® cleaner and disinfectant.

     Kingsford ® barbecue charcoal.

     Ever Clean® cat litter.

     Liquid-Plumr® drain cleaner.

More than 80% of our sales are generated from brands that hold the No. 1 or No. 2 market share positions in their categories.

Clorox Australia & New Zealand is powered by an innovative and collaborative team with over 100 professionals in Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics, Customer Service, HR and IT who are passionate about our brands. 

To read more about Clorox, check out our Career’s Page:

https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/careers/