Context/Scope:
Diageo Digital & Technology functions serve to equip our markets to deliver Diageo's performance ambition. We are proud to be leaders in delivering innovative technology solutions to help drive good performance. Our services are in over 100 countries across each and every function and at the forefront of business change. Portfolio & Project Center within Diageo Digital & Technology is responsible to deliver IT projects utilising circa $180M investment annually and a $300 M BAU budget in order to ensure that our processes and systems are up-to-date and forward looking, also in line with internal requirements and external benchmarking.
D&T IT Investment Finance Business Partner plays a relevant role in supporting Diageo Digital & Technology Leadership team in achieving its performance promise by providing outstanding financial reporting, intuitive analysis on overall portfolio financial health, performance, opportunities and risks as well as benefits attainment throughout the complete lifecycle of a project and to handle relevant BAU Budget optimally
Want more jobs like this?
Get jobs delivered to your inbox every week.
Dimensions
Financial:
Portfolio investment is circa $180M delivering $210 M benefits annually with a $300M BAU Cost Base. D&T IT Investment Finance Business Partner is responsible to ensure that CAPEX and OPEX investment is handled with consistent approach and performance is reviewed on a regular basis:
- Value Stream & functional budget allocation in line with long term Strategy
- Project Initiation Document (PID, or business case) approval in line with Statement of Authority
- lead all aspects of in-flight cost within approved budget
- Track realized benefits following project launch to achieve our vision and drive competitive advantage for Diageo
- Handle BAU budgets and facilitate to delivering to Efficiency Target
Market Complexity:
This is a global role and as such may handle many markets around the world. Complexity of the role is also driven by the number of (c200) projects running parallel, each with a different scope in the IT area.
Leadership Responsibilities:
This role has no direct reportees; however, D&T IT Investment Finance Business Partner plays an important role in driving increased value from the investment in IT enabled projects through robust Project Initiation Document (aka PID/business case) preparation, effective decision support and intuitive analysis on performance. Ability to influence and handle key partners is important to the success of this role, where stakpartnersy from the IT and Portfolio community:
- Value Stream Directors
- IT Project and Programme Managers, Capability Owners, Business Partners
- Programme Management Office (PMO) Teams
- Diageo Digital & Technology Leadership Team
- Diageo Digital & Technology Finance Director
- Diageo Digital & Technology Project Finance team
- Diageo Procurement and Vendor Management teams
- Planning & Strategy Finance Manager
- Market Finance teams
Purpose of Role:
The D&T IT Investment Finance Business Partner role will be key in achieving our performance promise enabling portfolio processes and providing finance expertise and guidelines to the organisation. It is a critical function that assures reporting accuracy on overall portfolio health and benefits attainment throughout the complete lifecycle of a project.
Top 3-5 Accountabilities:
- Key financial Business Partner for Portfolio & Project Center and for Value Streams supporting financial planning, forecasting, actual cost and performance management whilst ensuring financial field and effective controls across IT Portfolio Projects and managhandlebudget
- Continually maintain an insight and data driven performance culture through regular monthly BPM and O&R process
- Financial approver for D&T funded projects and facilitate approvals requiring senior level sign-off based on the statement of authority
- See opportunities to streamline and improve portfolio financial process, provide continuous financial capability training and support for PPC function and for Value Streams
Qualifications and Experience Required:
- University/College degree in business / finance / accounting
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience in finance and project environment ideally including business case development and financial modelling
- No financial accounting expertise is required, however understanding of the impact/correspondence of investments on the P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow is must
- Strong financial analysis skills and attention to details
- Strong use of Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP), and PowerPoint
- Ability to prioritize and handle expectations of several partners
- Good influencer, at a senior level with non-finance partners
- Experience of working and handling global teams across multiple offices and with diverse cultures
- Experience in Agile method and/ or PPM tools an advantage
- Commercial skill
- Interested in Technology solutions (Cloud based solutions, Saas funcitionalitites, etc.)