Job Title: Commercial Finance Business Partner
Contract terms: Permanent, full-time
Location: Dublin
About us
At Diageo, we boast a wealth of admired brands that few companies can rival. With names such as Baileys, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker, there's a rich legacy of character and outstanding products to promote. And we rely on passionate, driven marketers to celebrate these brands and ensure their future success.
Character is everything to us at Diageo. We're looking for the bold, daring and pioneering spirit that has sustained us for hundreds of years. If you share our sense of adventure, you'll thrive here. With opportunities to shape the career you want, through continuing learning and development, and the support of passionate peers.
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About the role
The Commercial Finance Business Partner will play a crucial role in providing financial insights and analysis to support strategic decision-making and drive business growth. This role requires a strong analytical approach, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively across various departments.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management - Commercial finance partner to the sub-channel commercial controllers, working with the wider commercial team on an ongoing basis. Provide financial support and guidance to the business unit to drive financial performance and effective decision making.
- Performance Analysis - P&L ownership and balance sheet management, working with FP&A, financial control and the commercial team to understand and challenge the key drivers of customer and channel performance on a monthly basis. Identify actionable insights and partner with the commercial and the revenue & growth management team to ensure action is taken to help drive sustainable growth.
- Budgeting & Forecasting - Play a key role during the annual budget cycle and strategic planning, working with FP&A, commercial and the revenue & growth management team to ensure that the key drivers of growth are understood and reflected appropriately, while ensuring the outputs are aligned with the relevant partners. On an ongoing basis help to lead the monthly forecasting cycle, finding opportunities and risks to the delivery of the budget and ensuring actions are taken to materialize the opportunities and mitigate the risks.
- Process Improvement - Support the Head of Commercial Finance across both business and functional priorities. Display a growth mindset and drive continuous improvement and productivity within the Take Home Trade and the finance function.
- Commercial Planning - Support the implementation of a commercial planning system and the implementation of enhancements to drive better planning and trade investment return on investment analysis.
About you
- Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Finance, Accounting or related field.
- Professional finance qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Experience with financial software systems (e.g., SAP).
- Strong analytical skills with a keen attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage several priorities.
This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.
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. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps us grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff 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.