Rem & Reporting Manager | Sydney

Job Description

• Drive continuous improvement within the People services team across AU and NZ
• Join leading FMCG company in a period of transformation
• Work with an experienced and passionate People and Culture team

About Us:

At Goodman Fielder our purpose is making everyday food better for everyone. Our aspiration is to be the leading integrated food solutions business in the region driven by our core values of Create Clarity, Better Together, Own It, and Collective Curiosity. We are a team that believes that anything is possible. A team that understands our business and focuses on the right things that make the biggest difference and one that considers our end-to-end value chain when making decisions to optimise our business. Collectively we are curious, we seek new ways to improve and evolve and together we drive change as an opportunity for us to innovate and transform our business and to achieve beyond what we think is possible.

The Opportunity:

This exciting opportunity is part of a newly designed structure within the People & Culture function, demonstrating the strategic initiative to elevate the P&C reporting and reward analytics capabilities. The Reward and Reporting Manager leads the design, implementation, and administration of the organization's reward strategy, ensuring they are competitive, equitable, and aligned with business objectives. This role also oversees P&C reporting and analytics, driving data-driven decisions across the employee lifecycle. The Reward and Reporting Manager will leverage systems like SAP and SpinifexIT to provide insights into workforce analytics, reward, and retention. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and the ability to partner closely with the Head of People Services and Reward on strategic initiatives across P&C, enhance the reporting responsibilities and contribute towards developing a high-performing team.

Specifically, you will:

• Partner effectively with business leaders and P&C Business Partners to understand their needs and provide data-driven solutions and insights. Communicate complex data clearly and concisely.
• Oversee all P&C reporting and analytics, ensuring the provision of accurate and timely data to support strategic decision-making. This includes workforce analytics, reward analysis, turnover reporting, and other key metrics.
• Lead the effort to streamline and consolidate P&C reporting, aiming to reduce the current reliance on multiple reports to a more efficient and insightful single report where possible. This includes identifying key metrics, automating data collection, and designing user-friendly dashboards.
• Manage the annual salary review process, including salary benchmarking, job evaluation, and merit increase recommendations. Oversee the position classification framework across salaried and waged staff, ensuring ongoing accuracy and consistency.
• Lead and develop the P&C Insights and Reward Analyst, providing coaching, mentoring, and performance feedback.
• Contribute to strategic P&C projects, such as WGEA reporting, gender pay gap analysis, job architecture implementation, and other initiatives requiring reward expertise and data analysis.
• Proactively identify and implement improvements within the SAP landscape to optimise efficiency. Lead group reporting processes, including headcount, new hires and turnover reporting, ESG and WGEA reporting and support Group Finance reporting requirements.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for escalated issues from P&C and/or payroll

What you will need

This role is critical for the P&C function, requiring strong leadership skills, a strategic can-do mindset, and deep expertise in reward, reporting and developing efficiencies in ways of working.  

• Strong proficiency in data analysis and reporting, including experience with HRIS systems (e.g., SAP, SpinifexIT) and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Exceptional Excel skills are essential.
• Proven business partnering and collaboration skills, with the ability to quickly build rapport and trust with stakeholders.
• Well-rounded skills in influencing, negotiation and excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
• Extensive experience in reward design and administration, including salary benchmarking, Hay job evaluation methodology, and sales incentive plan design.
• Continuous improvement mindset and a desire to make things simple, yet effective.
• Proven experience in people analytics, reporting and data analysis (essential)
• A passion for working across reward, data and reporting.
• Learning agility, needs to be able to learn quickly can work independently and collaboratively
• Strong attention to detail

Why Goodman Fielder?

With sites spanning across the Australasian region, working as part of a highly driven People and Culture team at Goodman Fielder, you can expect the opportunity to build your own home-grown career across functions, locations, and brands. 

You will be working within an open and highly cross functional environment allowing you full exposure to our daily operations.

In return for your passion and success, we will reward you with a competitive remuneration package and help you to achieve personal and professional growth and development.  

For more information on this job opportunity or other roles available at Goodman Fielder, please visit our careers page.

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