Job Description :

Job Title: Commercial Finance Manager

Location: Copenhagen

Contract terms: Permanent, full-time

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, that has not changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Baileys, Smirnoff, Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. That's why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.

Role Dimensions

Diageo Commercial Finance teams are central to delivering key business objectives and targets across the P&L, Balance Sheet and broader market share. The teams are respected business partners to their stakeholders inside and outside of the function and work to shape the future of the customer and overall Channel.

The purpose of the Commercial Finance Manager is to partner with all key business stakeholders including commercial teams (Sales & Marketing) to drive business performance. You will provide the focus and precision to ensure the market is on the right track to deliver the targets, act as a leader during volatile and uncertain times and help to unlock growth potential and ideas. You will support and challenge the delivery of our financial and commercial targets by working closely with all the head of functions and commercial leaders.

This role is part of our Benelux & Nordics Finance team. A significant part of the accounting operations is performed by GBO Budapest and Bangalore. This makes our Commercial Finance Manager role unique as you can fully focus on the delivery of the strategy and drive performance holistically.

This role looks after the Off Trade channel in Denmark (Retail) and the On Trade for Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark. The role is dynamic as it covers different sales channels and different countries. From managing challenging retail negotiations with customers in Denmark, to working in a cross functional team on festival deals and driving transparency on investments in the full value chain in ONT where we sell to Wholesalers that then sell on-wards to HoReCa outlets.

Besides being the finance leader for the above channels, you will also take on an important leadership role in the Denmark office. Together with the Commercial Head of Denmark, CR and Marketing Head you will drive the Diageo culture and role model the Diageo Dail Up behaviors. Injecting perspective and bringing the team on board with the 2023 strategy.

The role requires strong communication and influencing skills, as well as the ability to easily zoom out & zoom in between the bigger picture, external environment and internal details. We also have a large drive to simplify and systemize the processes and this role will be critical in delivering ground-breaking projects to improve the way of working.

Top Accountabilities

Functional:

Deliver robust business performance management: identify the drivers of historic and future P&L performance by brand and customer with focus on Volume, Mix, Price, Gross Profit, marketing investments that drives insight through the BPM process.

Actively participate in helping the commercial teams to understand performance through Demand Planning and Customer Performance reviews.

Provide support in formulating business strategy and converting strategies into useful plans, work closely with the Market Director to set the strategic priorities during annual planning.

Identify all critical business opportunities, risks and initiatives and provide financial analysis and insights to support decision making. You can carry out robust financial analyses to drive decisions.

Ensure efficient and effective resource allocation across trade and marketing investments

You facilitate the Annual Negotiations process in close collaboration with our Revenue & Growth Management team.

You have a good understanding on how Trade Investment works, knows how to influence the customer’s and brand’s profitability (Value Chains).

Support finance & commercial transformation projects, find opportunities to drive greater efficiency and effectiveness of finance activities, to improve our day to day operations.

Understanding of cashflow, ability to influence and optimize working capital.

Maintain a robust governance and control environment.

You will drive great decision making with your business partner and support the business in setting and realising its performance ambition with a particular emphasis on the Dynamic value creator area of the Diageo Finance Mission:

Bring data-led insights – crafting winning strategies and provoking phenomenal business outcomes

Embrace a winning attitude– having the courage to act

Look outwards – always adopting an external lens

Lead and embrace change – bringing value and crafting our future

Active risk managers – guiding thoughtful business decision

About You

University level degree, preferably in Finance or Business.

Minimum 6 years Finance and Commercial Finance experience.

Highly analytical and numerate. Advanced Excel and financial analysis skills.

Business partnering skills, ability to influence senior partners.

Skilled to drive actions and decisions on the back of financial analysis.

Comfortable with dealing with ambiguity, complexity and working within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and matrixed environment.

Managing Risk: Understands commercial risk and is able to develop and implement processes and controls to improve the pricing process and communications​.

Our Offer

An inclusive company culture that puts employees and their development first

A competitive salary with bonus and many benefits that suit your lifestyle

An industry leading parental leave policy

…and of course, THE best colleagues!

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 Diageo to thrive and 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.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff 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!

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