Finance Manager, Supply Manufacturing (Montgomery)

Diageo Montgomery:

As part of its efforts to build an increasingly resilient and efficient supply network, premium drinks company Diageo North America announced plans to open a new manufacturing and warehousing facility in Montgomery, Alabama. The 360,000 square foot facility will have a multi-million case annual production capacity for Diageo's leading beverage alcohol brands. This site will enhance the company's North America supply chain operations and support future growth for the company's export business.

The new facility, which will be referred to as ‘Diageo Montgomery,' will provide a new point of operations closer to the company's beverage distributors in the southern region. The site's strategic location is expected to reduce required road travel, significantly helping to further mitigate carbon emissions associated with logistics operations. The new facility will also employ top tier technology for more efficient water and energy usage across the site.

About the role:

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We're the world's leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It's why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high standards and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one's talent and personality.

Working in Finance at Diageo, you will be an innovator, a business partner challenger, and a value creator, as you will understand strategic growth drivers, and as an expert, you will maintain financial stewardship and accountability. By doing so, you will grow and develop your career across a variety of roles.

Role Responsibilities:

As Finance Manager for the site your role will be to:

• Establish financial processes and controls at startup manufacturing facility

• Lead the financial reporting, accounting, and analysis of the site
• Contribute to the North America manufacturing financial performance
• Drive performance and decision-making process at the site through providing financial support and leadership
• Lead the development of the annual operating plans (AOP) and latest estimates (LE), delivery of financial results and development and implementation of critical initiatives
• Identify performance improvement opportunities and work with the site leadership to complete them
• Maintain strong internal control & compliance environment
• Simplify our reporting and decision-making processes by bringing to bear digital tools
• Identify & pro-actively handle risks and opportunities and provide performance insights

Which team will you join?

• The position is Based in Montgomery, Alabama
• Reporting to the Finance Director Supply Operation
• Partnering with the leadership of the Montgomery site for day-to-day operation
• Working with the Business Shared Services for timely and accurately closing the Books and performing various financial analysis
• Optimally work with numerous members of finance community and other functions within Diageo
• Interact with multiple functions and coordinates the flow of information between multiple levels of management

What will you need to succeed in this role?

• Good accounting, planning, reporting, analysis, and controls understanding
• End to end Supply chain and cost accounting understanding
• Building and using relationships across different functions and geographies

Experience / skills required:

Which skills and experience are we looking for?

• 5+ years of financial management and accounting experience, preferably within a manufacturing or fast paced & complex consumer goods environment.
• Four year Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Finance or Accounting is required; a professional accounting designation or MBA is preferred.
• Strong technical accounting, planning, analysis, reporting and systems expertise. SAP knowledge a plus.
• Excellent leadership, analytical and planning skills
• Shown ability to distill out complex business issues, provide logical, compelling, and clear plans for action.
• Requires excellent leadership and networking skills and ability to lead and influence organizational changes.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

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 Diageo to succeed and 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.

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement:

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

• [Recruiter to list relevant market/region benefits].

Diversity statement:

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, 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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Plant Address:

Diageo Montgomery

7000 Celebration Way

Hope Hull, AL 36043