Company context
Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life.
Position/Job Title:
Finance Business Partner
Scope
Mexico Business
Proposed Band/Level:
5A
Main Purpose
The main purpose is to enable Diageo substantial growth and competitive advantage and to drive value for our consumers by developing a financial business partnership with Marketing BUs and pursuing attainable performance goals.
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The Financial Business partner role is responsible for driving and supporting the financial growth agenda across Marketing Business Divisions, providing strategic and tactical insights based on operational performance, industry dynamics, macroeconomic trends and competitor landscape. It will also handle and support business planning by providing financial analysis and guaranteeing alignment to portfolio strategy and financial metrics aligned to company's long-term vision.
Accountabilities
- Represents Finance function at the IBP monthly sessions, ensuring the financial targets and principles are in compliance with business priorities.
- Co-Leads the development of the brand's long-term strategy, including route to market, channel prioritization, investment paths, and key pillars to pursue share gain.
- Leads financial agenda for the P&L Business Unit's portfolio analysis, providing strategic and tactical insights based on operational performance, industry dynamics, macroeconomic trends and competitor landscape, sharing business opportunities and risks within Mktg partners.
- Drives prioritization decisions, guaranteeing alignment to portfolio strategy and financial metrics, while identifying avenues for growth.
- Support business planning to Business Divisions leaders by providing financial analysis and modelling.
- Contributes to ad hoc projects as required, as part of the business strategy execution.
- Specific focus on supporting the development of an agile-mindset and evolving processes and tools.
- Works as a Business Growth strategic partner that supports the BU to meet business algorithm, Monitor Value realization of the appointed projects providing financial analysis to building blocks that support growth.
- Handles the connections required with functional leaders (Marketing, FP&A, Strategic Planning, Supply, Demand Planning) to guarantee forecast accuracy and delivery of business targets.
- Influence & guide business leaders the commercial transformation journey to facilitate changes adoption, capabilities creation and goals achievement.
Key Skills & Experience required
- Bachelors in BA, Finance, Economist or Similar
- 5+ years finance experience
- Financial and commercial competence when undertaking financial assessments, applying judgement and providing insights & direction on outcomes.
- Critical thinking & strategic approach capabilities with sound business judgment that sees connections in data, events and trends
- Consistently works aligned to the right priorities.
- Proactively shares knowledge and findings to others.
- Demonstrates perseverance and resilience in the pursuit of goals.
- Partner management: A strong self-starter comfortable with working cross functionally and cross culturally to deliver results.
- Flexible: embraces and adapts well to change.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Must be proficient in English and Spanish.
Main interactions within organization
Marketing BU Leaders
- Develops a financial business partnership
- Supports / Performs financial analysis to provide valuable insights from business performance to define actions needed to land the BU's strategy
Finance LAC
- Interactions related to providing visibility of Mexico's business performance and aligning to LAC guidelines
Demand Planning
- Interactions related to providing financial support to ensure the right execution of IBP cycle that will enable to improve forecast accuracy
- Interactions related to ensure alignment & execution of commercial strategies and to deploy the integration and wiring needed across functions.
Flexibility
This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.
Diversity statement
Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of "celebrating life every day everywhere". 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 our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.