Commercial Finance Manager (Fixed-term contract) 6 Months
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
Diageo's luxury ambition is:
- To be the undisputed #1 luxury spirits company in the world
- To be recognized by our industry and beyond as a leading luxury business with a portfolio of iconic brands
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Building brands from luxury has an indirect "Halo Effect", driving premiumization overall.
Diageo's Luxury organization is a significant growth engine, within a diverse and sophisticated set of markets with a discreet profile of clients and a differentiated high end luxury portfolio of brands including JW Blue label, Don Julio 1942 and some of our rarest offerings including Port Ellen, Brora, Lagavulin and Singleton.
The Diageo Luxury Group is made up of a cross functional team - with central teams including Finance, Strategy and Commercial, Supply and Client Experience and Marketing.
Diageo currently generates $900m from its Luxury portfolio. There is potential to grow this to more than $1.5 billion by F30.
One of the teams within the Diageo Luxury Group is our private client sales teams, who maintain relationships and sell our most desirable stock to a select group of private clients for example: casks of distinction and high age malts and Johnnie Walker trophies. 2 of the biggest private client teams are the Southeast Asia and Taiwan private client teams.
About the role
You will be the key finance business partner supporting the Global Private Client Director and Luxury Finance Director.
You will lead the performance management of the Southeast Asia and Taiwan private clients alongside the Global Private Client Director, understanding key drivers behind movements in month-on-month forecasts and looking for opportunities to resolve those variances.
You will work with the private client sales teams to create winning strategic plans, ensuring that the private client business is enabling the wider Diageo Luxury ambition to succeed. You will support the Global Private Client Director and their leadership team on strategic priorities and strategic business reviews, as well as the annual AOP setting.
Expert in understanding short- and long-term ROI of all investment, you will support the deployment of A&P investment to deliver improved ROI & profit.
Top Accountabilities:
- Work alongside the Global Private Client Director to get under the skin of performance and drive an understanding and focus on performance, through the management of the BPM
- Provide financial expertise to decision making processes for the private client business
- Drive process improvement and simplification, as well as championing the standardization of monthly processes and ways of working across the various private client teams globally.
- Assess whether the current level of A&P is driving an optimal ROI
- Business partner the Global Private Client Director and leadership team when setting the 5-year strategies and AOP planning
- Ensure we have a robust control environment for our private client sales business
Qualifications and Experience Required:
- Mandarin speaker is advantageous
- 5+ years of financial expertise
- Experience in financial analysis for performance management essential
- Previous experience working in luxury or with HNWI is advantageous
- Previous NRM or marketing experience is advantageous
- Highly numerate with strong analytical skills
- Ability to flex projects and workload in accordance with business and market priorities.
- Exceptional ability to build and maintain genuine relationships based on mutual trust & respect
- Deep personal accountability for great performance
- Finance qualification CIMA/ACCA/CMA or similar equivalent qualification
- Strong commercial acumen, broad business perspective - a ‘hands-on' and in-depth understanding of the nuts and bolts of a business
Diversity Statement
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.
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.
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