Finance

Sustainable business practice

Ethical financial management and community impact

Upholding values, fostering collaboration, and nurturing a sustainable future

Our mission is to protect the reputation and assets built across multiple generations of the McLean family.

We provide timely and accurate information and advice to facilitate quality decisions. We do this by adhering to the business core values and a focus on continual improvement. Everyone is encouraged to speak up about things we can improve. We then work together towards designing the solution to gain this improvement.

We do this by monitoring and reviewing prevailing practices with a view to making changes where necessary to:

  • minimise bottlenecks
  • reduce costs
  • strengthen internal controls

thereby improving the timeframe and cost to delivery. We also seek to ensure the right balance is maintained between internal controls and the speed of processing. We continually analyse data to determine the most reliable source of input to our processes.

We are one team

We collaborate with our peers inside the wider family group of businesses to share experiences and learnings. Within our finance team we undertake regular meetings to discuss upcoming work requirements and where any assistance is needed to meet timelines. Through this we foster mutual respect and create a willingness to help each other out by getting to know each others’ roles.

We care

We aim to provide an environment within our team that supports staff retention through providing a work life balance and adequate resources to get the job requirements done. We see staff training as a valuable investment to allow staff growth within the team and as an opportunity to further increase our progress to best practice.

We make sure everyone gets to take their annual leave. While they are away, we share their workload across the team because we recognise the importance of everyone getting quality time off to rejuvenate. We see each other as people rather than just work colleagues.

We do the right thing

We speak up when we see a risk or hazard; particularly when it relates to our people and animals as they are our most valuable assets.

We are also focused on protecting the assets built across multiple generations of the McLean family by contributing to the ongoing identification, management and review of business risks.  We take a leading role in managing the financial risk for the entire organisation including maintaining adequate insurance for events beyond our control. We continually update the enterprise risk register to ensure these risks are appropriately documented, recognised and understood by the organisation.

Our position and impact on the local community is not to be underestimated with many small business suppliers heavily reliant upon us. We assist through having processes and systems in place to ensure high compliance with payment terms and timely resolution of account variances.

We strive to comply with regulations.  Honesty is the only policy to meet our social responsibility as is the timely lodgement of requisite forms, returns and survey participation.

We also maintain relationships with financiers who are critical to the ongoing investment that supports the growth plans of the business. With poultry assets having such a long-term useful life we see the development and maintenance of longer-term strategies and business planning tools as critical to meeting long term objectives.