.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