Commercial Finance Business Partner - Off Trade & DCommJob Description : About us
Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, JB, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we build shared value.
About the Role
We now have an exciting Commercial Finance Business Partner opportunity for our Off Trade Channel in Italy. You will be part of an exciting and growing business responsible for the end to end channel performance.
In this role, you'll be leading key business processes including Business Performance Management and Annual Operating Planning and as a trusted senior business partner, providing sound commercial and analytical support to the commercial team and senior key stakeholders. You will be expected to identify value-enhancing opportunities through stepping out of purely "financial" agenda and add genuine commercial insight.
Drive Performance: Drive understanding and focus on performance, by orchestrating the strategic planning process and best view forecasting process for the business unit.Taking a leadership role within the channel alongside the Sales Director to drive the overall customer and commercial strategy within the team.Drive holistic price/mix and gross margin improvements.Be guardian of the sustainability of the market share.Accountability for great basics in the cash management - driving OWC improvement through accurate forecasting, compliance with payment terms policy & receivables collection field and overdue resolution.Holding others to account to deliver their commitments.Improve finance capability throughout Commercial Teams:Development and presentation of financial tools, techniques and information that aid and improve the day to day decisions.Improving Forecasting: advising on the impact of poor forecasts, giving tips and guidance, explaining how forecasting links in with Opps & Risks process.A desire to seek learning opportunities to enhance commercial understanding is essential in performance of the above objectives.Data analysis and Reporting:Use of insightful analysis to identify business opportunities, addressing them with the commercial team.Stock in Trade analysis and reporting, and holding to account sales teams to manage the business within the Commercial Policy of a sell-out driven business.Customer negotiations.Take over cross-country accountabilities and projects.About youYou have about 5+ years of experience in Finance roles. Business Partner experience is a strong plus.You have sophisticated Excel skills, MicroStrategy (or similar), Power BI system knowledge.You have commercial experience or commercial acumen, while you're famous for your strong relationship building and influencing skills.You're comfortable with complexity and when working within a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment.You're proficient in Italian and English.Working with us Flexibility
This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time and compressed hours. 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.
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Turin
Additional Locations : Job Posting Start Date :
2024-07-15
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