Chanel is a world leader in creating, manufacturing and distributing luxury products, including Ready-to-Wear, Accessories, Fragrances, Makeup, Skincare, Jewellery and Watches. Founded by Gabrielle Chanel in 1910, the House remains dedicated to quality craftsmanship and offering high-end creations. At present, Chanel employs more than 32,000 people worldwide.

Chanel is dedicated to creating the conditions for people to perform at their best, building on their strengths and enabling them to benefit from new opportunities. It offers a unique working environment where people are given time to understand the brand, the business, and develop their personal motivations. This means everyone can grow, continue to be inspired and feel included, now and in the future. The company fosters true collaboration and respect for all, grounded in the belief that diversity is essential to the success of the organization and its people.

As Chanel ANZ looks to give our business a competitive edge against others in the market, we are shaping our Business Finance function to be agile, dynamic and proactive in our business partnering. We are now recruiting a Senior Business Finance Analyst to be a true business partner to corporate functions, supporting business development, decision making and resource allocation.

Location: Chanel ANZ Head Office - Mount Street North Sydney

Salary: $130,000 - $140,000

WHAT IMPACT YOU CAN CREATE AT CHANEL

The Senior Finance Business Analyst will not just report the news but shape it by integrating internal and external insights to drive local, regional, and global business agendas. Your role will be to provide Smart Analytics that enable management to solve business problems effectively. Smart analytics are:

Relevant: impactful, especially for predictions
Timely: it's relevant now
Faithful: complete, neutral, and error-free
Verifiable: replicable and verifiable
Actionable: beneficial and true to its claims
Understandable: easily comprehensible

YOU ARE ENERGISED BY

Proactively leading and reviewing financial analyses, modeling, and insights to drive performance and influence decisions at regional, divisional, and local levels.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Establish a process with business partners and budget owners to manage monthly performance, analyze actual vs. budget variances, update expense forecasts, and improve operating expense efficiency. Recommend actions when results deviate from the plan.
Support the ANZ consolidation and coordination activities for all planning cycles (Forecasts, Budget, MTP) to provide accurate and timely information to management, including but not limited to corporate functions, IT, distribution, Fragrance & Beauty and Fashion, Watches & Fine Jewelry divisions.
Utilize robust and advanced analytics to derive business scenarios and predictive analysis to drive business decisions.
Advise business teams and budget owners on financial, performance management, planning and budgeting related matters.
Monitor external environment such as macro factors, competitors’ movements and recommend appropriate course of strategic actions where applicable.
Provide feedback on planning systems and tools to integrate historical and predictive financial information, reducing manual data manipulation.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

3 years of relevant work experience, including stakeholder management, data interpretation and manipulation and process improvement.
CA or CPA Qualification, combined with a university degree in Business with major in accounting or similar
Advanced Excel skills with the ability to create complex spreadsheets with advanced formulas (e.g., LOOKUPs, INDEX/MATCH, pivot tables)
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. Able to listen, empathize, and build trust to foster cohesion.
Agile, commercially curious with a strong sense of business acumen.
A genuine interest in learning systems and becoming a ‘power user’.
Comfortable aggregating and manipulating large data sets from multiple systems to derive insightful analysis and create financial models.

WHAT CHANEL CAN OFFER YOU

Chanel is dedicated to empowering our people to develop and learn wholistically. We believe by nurturing the whole person, not just the employee, we give people the space and tools to design their impact based on their individual strengths and intrinsic motivations.

Chanel remains committed to rewarding people competitively, as well as offering initiatives such as wellbeing programs, learning and development opportunities, and parental leave for all parents globally.

We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to CHANEL. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and personal attributes do not form part of the selection process. Our team is selected solely for their talents and capabilities. We welcome the opportunity to learn how we can leverage your unique abilities and experiences to drive us forward.

Applications Close: 19th September 2025