Finance Manager - Procurement

Job Description :

Finance Manager - Indirects Procurement

About the Function-

Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We’re part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we’re utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future — no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we’ll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

About the role-

Reporting to the Head of Supply Finance - Procurement, the Indirect Procurement Finance Manager  will provide financial insights and analysis to support Procurement target delivery and performance improvement, whilst ensuring risk and volatility is handled and well-understood. 

Specifically, the role will provide finance business support to various procurement teams responsible for various indirect spend categories. This will involve supporting various Heads of Procurement and Category Directors across regions. The role will be expected to provide thorough financial and strategic support to guide procurement decision-making, and support developing plans to deliver sustainability roadmaps. Key responsibilities, therefore, include partnering to: 

• Develop procurement and CRES strategies and related financial plans
• Review and negotiate supplier contracts
• Support productivity ideation and related financial implications
• Deliver broader procurement-led projects or initiatives, and
• Analyse, track and report overall procurement performance – cost, cash and carbon

The role will play an integral role in various financial processes including the 3 Year financial planning process, Annual Operating Plans and monthly reporting exercises. Therefore, the role will work closely with FP&A teams to bring clarity to how Procurement actions affect P&L and Cash delivery.

The role requires the person to be an ambassador for the standardization and simplification, acting at pace to handle a dynamic external and internal environment. Moreover, the role will play a key role in capability development across finance and procurement virtual communities.

Given its responsibilities, the role will engage and operate cross-functionally requiring the role holder to demonstrate leadership, flexibility, and extensive stakeholder management skills under-pinned by:

• Commercial competence and judgment; an understanding of both the business and external environment to draw from, ability to challenge, influence strategies and guide decisions
• Strong communication and influencing skills, verbal and written; able to distil and communicate complex information clearly
• Strong personal impact – build value relationships quickly across all levels within the organisation in a matrix environment, challenging and holding the teams to account, and being credible in front of senior partners and key strategic suppliers.
• The ability to work at pace with ambiguity and change, develop efficient ways of working and be agile in responding to change

Flexible Working Statement-

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our people work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this.
We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.

Our Resourcing Standard can be reviewed at this link

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 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:

Edinburgh Park

Additional Locations :

1HQ, Onyx, Glasgow

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-01-13