Commercial Finance Manager

Job Description :

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Global Travel team works across travel retail and duty free in airports worldwide, and partners with air and cruise lines, reaching consumers across the globe with our much-loved brands. From exclusive brand extensions and malt category products to world class activations and limited editions, travellers can experience our leading portfolio of brands at their leisure.

We have a unique set of customers and locations reaching billions of travellers globally every day. Our ambition is to be the undisputed leader in travel retail. Our team is present in 19 countries, and wherever you join us, you'll benefit from our inclusive culture. We'll give you the support and training you need to grow and thrive in this global team.

About the Global Travel Commercial Finance team

For GT to achieve its ambitious growth and profitability ambitions, we need to transform the way we develop, plan and implement our commercial plans. There is a particular focus required on Commercial Finance ("CF") to lead the performance agenda and driving sustainable, quality growth.

The Commercial Finance Manager reports directly to the Head of Commercial Finance (Europe and Americas) and has a dotted reporting line to the Account Controllers. The CF team is supported by other finance specialists including FP&A and Financial Control teams based in Budapest as well as a RGM team in London.

About the role

This role maintains relationships with a range of business partners - including Commercial (and wider multi-functional selling) teams, Marketing, FP&A, Internal audit (GAR), Supply and our various DBS Shared Services teams across the world.

You will lead the performance agenda for your customers and support in promoting Diageo's best interests in all regions and channels. This includes contributing to monthly cluster meetings, understanding the key dynamics of all functions within the business and holding business partners to account for strong performance in their areas of responsibility.

Role Responsibilities

Key Business Partner to GTs Account Controllers and their respective commercial teams:

1. Performance Management: Embeds a strong performance culture within the team, tracking performance against the financial plan (NSV, Operating Profit, Cash) and other critical metrics (including market share and supply chain effectiveness) and proactively managing associated risks and opportunities. This entails:

• Managing the BPM cycle with commercial business partners
• Proactively driving commercial partners to understand external influences and trends and their impact on current/future performance
• Driving possibility thinking in commercial discussions, and managing the development of new customer and brand opportunities
• Quantifying risks and opportunities to the Annual Operating Plan ("AOP"), and communicating these clearly to key stakeholders

• Drive the commercial performance agenda including planning and customer negotiation strategy that will secure continued value-creating growth
• Drive an effective measurement and evaluation process for investment in the customer alongside the CP&A team
• Support the productivity agenda, including RGM and A&P effectiveness

• Ensure accountability for, and ownership of, the controls environment across the customers
• Ensure all globally mandated CARE requirements are adhered to
• Ensure full visibility of risks and mitigation

Experience / skills required:

• Experience in commercial finance (5 years+)
• Qualified Accountant strongly preferred
• Track record of defining and delivering commercially oriented strategies and plans
• Strong commercial experience and financial competence
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to influence critical commercial decisions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with a cross-functional team.
• Able to manage multiple assignments and priorities simultaneously
• Fluency in English is critical given the multi-country focus

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you and we'll work together so that you're supported from day one.

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• On-site gym or subsidised gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme
• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
• On-site nursery or vouchers
• Annual bonus of 15 % of your base salary (dependent on performance)
• Share options
• 28 days' vacation per annum

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type : Regular

Primary Location: 1HQ

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Job Posting Start Date : 2024-10-11