Job Description:
Mars Snacking is a global leader in snacking, backed by over a century of innovation and iconic brand-building. Powered by more than 50,000 Associates and over 80 production facilities globally, our beloved snacks – spanning confectionary, salty, cereal, noodles and frozen foods categories – are enjoyed in more than 180 countries around the world.
We’re on the lookout for a Supply Chain Finance Business Partner (BP) to join our high-performing Finance team at Mars Snacking Australia, based in Melbourne.
In this role, you will serve as a trusted partner to our Supply Chain teams, enhancing operational effectiveness and driving financial performance. You will play a key role in defining and ensuring the delivery of the Supply Chain financial objectives, reporting, analysing and providing insights on business results, along with realizing and judging risks and opportunities. Leveraging digital reporting tools, you will translate data into actionable insights, champion continuous improvement, and raise financial acumen across cross-functional supply chain stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
- Be a True Business Partner: Provide financial guidance and ensure sound financial and operational decision making support for Supply Chain and Logistics to deliver on operational plans and periodic S&OP+ cycles.
- Shape Financial Performance: Deliver thorough financial inputs, reporting, and analysis for operating plans, revised forecasts, and strategic planning cycles for Supply Chain.
- Drive Value Creation & Cost Agenda: Perform trend and variance analysis to uncover opportunities, track key performance indicators, and support the business simplicity and cost optimization agenda.
- Champion Continuous Improvement: Partner with operational teams to track action plans, address root-cause variances, and drive sustainable operational efficiencies.
- Deliver Actionable Insights: Utilize digital tools and financial systems to generate high-impact business insights, helping non-finance stakeholders understand key financial drivers.
- Support Strategic Projects: Contribute to local and regional supply chain finance initiatives, ad-hoc analyses, and investment evaluations.
What You’ll Bring
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, or a related discipline.
- Professional Qualifications: CPA / CA (or equivalent) qualification or progress towards completion is highly advantageous.
- Experience: 1–3 years of experience in accounting, finance, or audit environments (experience within FMCG, Manufacturing, Retail, Shared Services, or a Big 4 firm is advantageous).
- Technical & Process Knowledge: Working knowledge of management accounting, cost control, and supply chain processes (e.g., S&OP, inventory flow, production scheduling).
- Analytical Mindset: Demonstrated ability to work with financial systems, digital tools, and complex data to extract clear insights and strategic narratives.
- Collaboration & Communication: Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across diverse functional teams.
- Proactive Drive: An agile mindset with a focus on problem-solving, accountability, and continuous improvement.
What Can You Expect from Mars?
- Genuine Career Progression: A focus on you and your development goals, backed by best-in-class learning support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- Health & Wellbeing: A global health and wellbeing program supporting flexibility and positive work-life balance.
- Purpose & Impact: Opportunities to make a meaningful difference through our volunteer and ambassador programs and contribute to our Sustainable in a Generation Plan.
- Our Culture: A collaborative, inclusive, and rewarding culture guided by The Five Principles.
- Mars Snacking: Take pride in creating better moments for millions through iconic brands and the sustainable way we source, make, and market our products.
What we stand for:
Mars is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
Applications will only be accepted from candidates who have the appropriate approval to work in Australia and/or New Zealand.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, or a related discipline
- CPA, CA, or equivalent qualification, or progress toward completion
- 1–3 years of experience in accounting, finance, or audit environments
- Working knowledge of management accounting, cost control, and supply chain processes
- Experience working with financial systems, digital tools, and complex data
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to influence and collaborate across diverse functional teams
- Agile, proactive, accountable, and continuous-improvement mindset
- Appropriate approval to work in Australia and/or New Zealand
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
