Finance Manager, Distillation & Maturation

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!

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one's talent and personality.

• Independently lead the development of the distillation and maturing annual and long-range plans, delivery of financial results and development and implementation of critical initiatives.
• Develop long-range plans for purchasing barrels and investing in building new warehouses.
• Lead annual business plan (AOP) and latest estimates (LE), report financial performance of D&M conversion costs and proactively handle performance risks and opportunities.
• Complete maturing liquid costing in coordination with various teams including Planning, Blending and Procurement, analyze variances and ensure that the costs are accurately updated to SAP.
• Lead accurate, timely and financially astute balance sheet management, particularly for the accounts related to D&M activities.
• Lead effective and efficient compliance, ethics and controls activities. Proactively identify control risks and work with the operations leadership for mitigating them.
• Ownership of Ad Valorem and other distillation related taxes, ensuring correct calculation and collaboration with NAM tax team to ensure accurate and timely filing of returns.
• Development and execution of best-in-class models, tools and techniques to drive simpler, faster, and better reporting and decision-making.

• Reporting to the Finance Director Supply Operation.
• Partnering with the leadership of all the Distillation & Maturation sites of North America.
• Working with the Business Shared Services for timely and accurately closing the Books and performing various financial analysis.
• Effectively collaborating across finance community (Tax, Insurance, Supply, FP&A).
• Business partnering with other supply organizations including Planning, Blending, Technical, Procurement etc., and coordinate the flow of information between multiple levels of management.

• Solid end to end supply chain and cost accounting understanding.
• Deep understanding of maturing liquid business and supply operations.
• Ability to effectively communicate with a business partner across supply and finance and managing multiple partners.
• Financial analysis skills - ability to run complex data for decision support, reporting and financial planning.
• Strong stewardship mentality.
• Hard-working, working independently

• 5+ years of financial management and accounting experience, within a manufacturing consumer goods environment.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in finance or accounting is required; a professional accounting designation or MBA or equivalent is preferred.
• Excellent leadership, analytical and planning skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong technical accounting, planning, analysis, reporting and systems expertise. SAP knowledge a plus.
• Shown ability to distill-out complex business issues, provide logical, compelling, and clear plans for action.
• Requires excellent leadership and networking skills and ability to lead and influence organizational changes.