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GM FP&A Ingredients and Trading

Internal Posting Title
GM FP&A Ingredients and Trading

General Information

Date Published
12-Feb-2025
Advertising Ends
31-Mar-2026
ID#
11276
Role Type
General Management
Work Type
Permanent Full-Time
Country
New Zealand
Location
Auckland

Position Description

Our Co-operative

Fonterra’s strength is in the collective | Te Mātāpuna toa takitini

We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Since our beginnings, collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in New Zealand and around the world.

As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk.

When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions.

About the opportunity | Te whiwhinga mahi

As our GM FP&A Ingredients and Trading, you will play a key role in shaping the financial future of our Ingredients and Commodity Trading business.

Partnering with senior leaders across the business globally, you’ll provide strategic insights, financial governance, and commercial expertise to drive sustainable growth. 

Your leadership will strengthen and enhance financial planning, performance management, and risk mitigation while cultivating trusted relationships throughout our organisation.

This is a new leadership role with real impact—balancing financial acumen with strategic foresight in a fast-moving, global business unit. It’s an exciting time to join our business at a pivotal time of transformation and growth.

Key Responsibilities will include:

  • Strategic and Financial Leadership – Shape short and long-term global financial plans, scenario modelling, driving performance metrics across regions and informing gap closing analysis. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in the implementation of our new strategy.
  • Insight focused leadership – you will tell the story of the numbers and partner directly with senior stakeholders providing finance leadership to drive business forward.
  • Management Reporting/Decision Analysis – working globally with business partners to oversee performance management, and drive informed decision-making through robust forecasting, budgeting, and analysis.
  • Governance,Stakeholder Management – Ensure financial integrity, , and proactive risk management while building strong relationships across leadership, finance, and commercial teams.
  • Team, Systems and Sustainability – Lead a high-performing FP&A team and working with our service partners, enhance financial systems and reporting, and align financial strategy with business growth and sustainability goals
About you | Ko wai koe

You’re a strategic and commercially savvy finance leader with a strong background in financial planning and analysis, governance, and commercial leadership. With extensive senior finance experience and a CPA, CA, or equivalent qualification, you bring deep industry knowledge—ideally in commodities, trading, dairy, or FMCG—along with an understanding of market dynamics and operational complexities including S&OP processes.

You excel in leading high-performing teams, translating complex financial data into actionable insights, and building trusted relationships at all levels. Your expertise in governance and compliance ensures financial integrity, risk mitigation, and alignment with business goals.

A natural leader, you bring a strategic mindset and a results-driven approach. You understand financial levers for growth, inspire teams toward a shared vision, and consistently deliver outcomes that create long-term value in a global business.

The benefits of life at Fonterra | Te ora i Te Mātāpuna

Our people and what they bring to our Co-op shape our success. We have a collaborative culture, inspiring leaders, and passionate people, making Fonterra a great place to work. We also offer competitive remuneration and a range of benefits, regardless of your role or location.

Our story | Ō mātou kōrero

Being part of Fonterra means being part of a unique history, realising the potential of dairy for generations to come, and solving for a better future together.

  • Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit, guides a common strength and purpose.

  • Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people at the heart of what we do.

  • Kaitiakitanga ensures we care for the land, farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations.

  • Whakaohooho inspires us all with excellent career development opportunities, benefits, flexibility, and balance to suit everyone's lifestyles and choices.
Our Co-operative is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best, and are empowered to create goodness for generations.

Sound good to you? Come join our whānau and let’s solve for better, together. You, me, us together. Tᾱtou tᾱtou.