About Us
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world's very best people. We're looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level!
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Supply Finance Manager - Beer Projects
Diageo was created in 1997 but its business is built on the principles and foundations laid years before by giants of the industry - Arthur Guinness, John Walker, Elizabeth Cumming and many more. Today, Diageo is a world class leader in beverage alcohol, producing an outstanding collection of over 200 brands and owning the top two largest spirit brands in the world, Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff and 20 of the world's top 100 spirit brands. Its portfolio also includes Crown Royal, J&B, Buchanan's and Windsor Whiskies, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness.
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Diageo's culture is built and maintained by the five values that underpin its business and guide how Diageo works. At Diageo, employees are passionate about its customers and consumers and want to be the best. They give each other the freedom to succeed and value each other. Employees work hard, so they can be proud of what they do and how they do it. While Diageo moves at pace, constantly evolving and improving, its values remain consistent and our performance ambition clearly articulates our commitment to do business in the right way, from grain to glass.
More about Diageo is available at its web site: https://www.diageo.com/
Role Dimensions
The Supply Finance Manager - Beer Projects will take a lead role in Diageo's Global beer projects and will lead and handle large-scale CAPEX projects from conception through to implementation, working closely with cross-functional teams and senior management. This role requires strong project management skills combined with solid financial acumen to ensure successful delivery of supply focussed investment cases for Diageo.
Top accountabilities
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Ability to plan and lead project's financials, including budgeting, forecasting, and tracking expenses. Able to identify, assess, and mitigate project risks to avoid disruptions to timelines or budgets.
- Financial Analysis: Understanding of financial documents, cost-benefit analysis, and return on investment (ROI) assessments.
- Stakeholder Management: Managing relationships with collaborators, including finance teams, senior management, and external vendors. Serve as the primary point of contact to partners and able to monitor and report project progress, performance and KPIs.
- Excel and Financial modelling: Advanced level financial modelling. Run scenarios and be able to accurately present outputs of analysis.
- Report Writing and presentation skills: Crafting clear and detailed financial reports and project updates for partners. Presenting complex financial data and project updates to non-finance partners in an understandable way.
Leadership Capabilities
Win through Execution
- Sets and delivers against stretch goals, demanding high standards of self and others.
- Builds coherent plans and effectively prioritises where to put own and teams' time, energy and resources.
- Seeks out opportunities to simplify and drive efficiencies.
Shape the Future
- Communicates in a clear and credible manner.
- Seeks internal and external insights on consumer, customer, and competition and can apply the insights to add new value.
- Draws meaningful insights from multiple data points and can make clear recommendations, without needing 100% of information.
Inspire through Purpose
- Maintains a positive and optimistic outlook during challenging times.
- Builds meaningful relationships and effectively navigates difficult stakeholder relationships
Invest in Talent
- Is aware of own biases and preferences and how this impacts their approach and actions.
- Is resilient in the face of adversity; flexible and adaptable in the face of new insights.
Ideal experiences / Qualifications / capabilities
- +3-5 years of proven experience in project management, Finance or similar fields
- Consistent track record of influencing and driving functional leadership teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey data-driven insights to a diverse audience.
- Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to handle several projects simultaneously.
- Strategic problem solver with a proactive approach to identifying business opportunities and challenges.
- Meticulous with a commitment to accuracy and quality.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- CIMA/CA qualified preferred
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.
Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package.
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.