Finance Manager, Pre-Mix RTD/RTS

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 build a career worth celebrating.

Which company will you join?

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one’s talent and personality.

About you

We’re looking for an individual with strong balance of hard financial skills and strong leadership behavior. They will need to have full P&L and value chain understanding, be capable to anticipate and handle risks and opportunities and add new value from financial perspective. Strong eye for business, financial analytical thoroughness and outstanding business partner management are required. Handling ambiguity, organization and great interpersonal skills are critically important for the success in this role.

About the role:

This role supports the Pre-Mix portfolio, a $500MM NSV business across both Diageo Beer Company and US Spirits Business Divisions, with analysis, performance management, and strategic planning. It has high visibility across Marketing, Commercial and Finance leadership as well as with Global category teams, providing analytical insights to deliver a growth and share gains in the fastest growing segment of the industry.

Context/Scope:

• Financial and strategic business partner for Pre-Mix brands
• Plays a meaningful role in crafting the company's long-term sustainable growth strategy while also focusing on near term brand performance
• Provides financial oversight of A&P brand budgets
• Supervise current brand performance and key drivers of growth
• Partners with cross functional teams to model future brand performance and valuing potential growth and profitability drivers
• Requires the individual to excel functionally and to build effective working relationships across the Commercial and Brand teams at all levels of the organization
• Develop financial scenarios and recommendations to advise new concept development and portfolio / investments prioritization decisions

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead Portfolio Strategy process for Pre-Mix Brands, developing a framework, tools, templates, and analyses and develop insights
• Lead and drive building blocks and the financial elements of the annual brand planning process across Pre-Mix portfolio
• Support performance management of brands, provide business insights, and develop scenario plans
• Partner with Brand teams to coordinate/prepare/facilitate brand plan reviews
• Assess investment opportunities to ensure they align with overall strategy and financial targets
• Drive portfolio price pack architecture and portfolio optimization initiatives
• Transform ideas that may range from market insights and competitor performance to creative investments and growth models into financial projections
• Act as a critical thought partner to the Marketing and Innovation Leadership Team, VP Marketing, and Finance Leadership

Key Interactions:

• Annual brand plans and 3-year strategic planning
• Insightful business performance management analysis and generation of improvement opportunities during monthly brand performance reviews
• Provide brand growth modeling, profitability analyses, and scenario planning
• Financial reviews of recent acquisitions, providing evaluation against business case goals and recommendation of strategic decisions
• Act as trusted business advisor in order to challenge and support the business to improve overall performance and develop in-market BPM capabilities.
• Finance business partners – provide proactive support and collaboration on delivery of end-to-end finance operating model to the business divisions.

Experience / skills required:

• 5+ years of relevant business experience
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required. MBA or equivalent experience preferred
• FP&A, Brand Finance, Commercial Finance experience
• CPG Experience preferred
• Outstanding analytical, financial modeling, and presentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with a validated ability to collaborate with various partners, build relationships, and influence across large matrix organization
• Capacity to communicate sophisticated ideas in simple understandable terms
• Ability to balance strategy and drive to execution
• High energy and drive

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And crafting 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 encouraged 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, mentalities, 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.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

3WTC

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-02-07

Salary Range:

Minimum Salary:

$110400

Maximum Salary:

$184000

At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others.  (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.)  The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.