Description
About us
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.
Our purpose Celebrating life, every day, everywhere has a meaningful role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we build shared value.
About the role
The Diageo Southern Europe Finance team (which supports Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece) is central to the delivery of key business objectives and targets across the P&L, Balance Sheet and broader market share.
The team is made up of respected business partners to their collaborators inside and outside of the function and work to shape the future of our business.
The role of A&P Finance Business Partner will drive excellent decision making across the Consumer and Customer Marketing Teams and support the business in setting and realising its performance ambition and AOP with a particular focus on the Dynamic value creator area of the Finance Mission:
Bring data-led insights crafting winning strategies and provoking extraordinary business outcomes
Adopt a winning demeanor having the courage to act
Look outwards always adopting an external lens
Lead and adopt change bring value and crafting our future
Active risk managers guiding thoughtful business decisions and ensuring compliance with our controls agenda in everything we do
The successful candidate will play a key role in handling and optimizing Southern Europe's total A&P budget. This role will partner the SE Marketing and SE Customer Marketing teams to ensure we have a clear understanding of drivers of spend to enable this investment to be optimized and deployed with agility.
Part of the role will also be to drive optimization of the A&P process and continuous improvement.
Top Accountabilities
Functional:
Provide decision support to the customer and consumer marketing teams, which will ultimately improve, return on investment, Net Sales Value, Gross Profit, Gross Margin %, CAAP and CAAP Margin%.
Partner with marketing & customer marketing teams on their A&P budget, seeking out greatest opportunities for growth
Partner with SE Finance team (Commercial Finance, Finance Controls, BPM team, etc.) to bring together the Brand/category/Portfolio perspective with the Country/Channel perspective and assessing the right prioritization and optimization choices.
Guarantee quality A&P budget management, giving confidence to the wider SE business on A&P accuracy and correct spending in line with strategy
Partner with marketing teams to implement high quality measurement and evaluation of our marketing activities
Identify and implement A&P process improvements on A&P/finance projects
Use insightful analysis to identify business opportunities
Present analysis to the teams and then subsequently empower the team around delivering against them
Support the strategic planning and forecasting processes
Ensure the appropriate governance and controls are in place for all investment and best in class process, data and tools are available to support decision making
About you
Leadership Standards
Win through Execution
Sets and pursues direction without guidance and takes a wide view of their accountabilities
High energy and ambition to achieve successful outcomes and high standards
Balances analysis and execution and adjusts thinking in the face of new information
Actively spots opportunities or issues and identifies which are urgent and important
Generates a range of workable solutions, decides what should be done and takes action
Shape the Future
Sees the big picture and possibility from multiple angles and through a creative lens
Frames issues in a way that creates clarity and incorporates others' best thinking
Accurately digests large amounts of information and breaks down sophisticated problems thoroughly
Challenges themselves and others to address new or unfamiliar tasks and ways of working
Inspire through Purpose
Finds broader meaning in their work and aspires to make a significant difference
Reads their environment and understands how culture and context influences people's perspectives
Is actively aware of the impact they have on others and tunes in to the needs of individuals around them
Communicates in a compelling, persuasive and impactful way
Draws on a variety of influencing styles to engage different audiences
Invest in Talent
Displays confidence in their ability to meet challenges and succeed
Maintains belief and optimism and bounces back quickly from setbacks or failures
Demonstrates a realistic and thoughtful awareness of their own capabilities
Proactively seeks feedback and development for growth and takes action
Ideal experiences / Qualifications / capabilities
Qualified accountant who will be studying or has studied towards their ACCA or CIMA qualifications (preferred)
Existing capability to build genuine relationships built on mutual trust & respect
Successful management of senior partners, resulting in strong and positive outcomes
Comfort with dealing with ambiguity, complexity and working within a fast-paced, ambitious and matrixed environment
Deep personal accountability for extraordinary performance
Strong commercial and numerical savvy with attention to detail
Excel, BPM (or equivalent), CRM (advantage or similar) system knowledge
Demonstrate you have mastery in financial analysis.
Minimum 4+ years of finance experience, ideally in FMCG / Consumer goods
Working with us
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our people 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.
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this.
We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. 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.
Worker Type : Regular
Regular
Primary Location : Madrid
Madrid
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date : 2024-07-15
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