Brand Finance Manager - Whiskey

About Us:

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to build a career worth celebrating.

Which company will you join?

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!

• Strategic Financial Leadership: Drive strategic financial decision-making for relevant portfolio of Brands, partnering closely with senior leadership across Marketing & Finance
• Category Finance: bring "CFO mentality" to deliver sustainable long-term growth, value creation, and operating leverage for the Whiskey portfolio
• Brand Planning: Support and continuously improve key brand planning processes, including MBP, ASC, and AOP
• A&P Oversight: Provide oversight of A&P for the Whiskey portfolio, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and strategic priorities. Partner with brand and A&P teams to ensure delivery of current year budgets, future year planning, and M&E
• Portfolio Strategy Execution: Partner with marketing to ensure optimization of investment choices aligned to the Diageo Portfolio Strategy.
• Efficiency Initiatives: Partner with Supply and Supply Finance to identify and drive initiatives to optimize resource allocation and improve investment efficiency

• Support Portfolio Strategy process for Whiskey brands, developing frameworks, tools, templates, and analyses to synthesize portfolio projections and develop insights
• Lead and drive building blocks and the financial elements of the annual brand planning processes across Whiskey
• Assess financial performance, provide business insights, and develop scenario plans
• Partner with Brand teams to coordinate/prepare/facilitate quarterly brand plan reviews
• Assess investment opportunities to ensure they align with overall strategy and financial targets, while developing return on investment analyses to evaluate programs, opportunities, and cost savings initiatives
• Drive efficiency initiatives to ensure effective allocation of resources and efficient use of investments by brand
• Champion the compliance agenda and maintain a strong internal control & compliance environment
• Excel at cutting through ambiguity and act as a critical thought partner to the Marketing & Innovation and Finance Teams
• Support SVP and Whiskey Finance Director in ad-hoc projects including but not limited to US Strategy, portfolio optimization, and performance management

• 5+ years of relevant business experience
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required. MBA and / or recognized accounting qualification preferred
• FP&A, Brand Finance, Commercial Finance experience preferred
• Beverage Alcohol or CPG Experience preferred
• Outstanding analytical, financial modeling, and presentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with a validated ability to collaborate with various partner, build relationships, and influence across large matrix organization
• Capacity to communicate sophisticated ideas in simple understandable terms
• Ability to balance strategy and drive to execution
• High energy and drive