Senior Finance Business Partner - Planning & Logistics

Job Title: Senior Finance Business Partner - Planning&Logistics

Contract: Permanent

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. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life!

About the role

• Lead financial planning for Global Brands Supply Logistics, covering $0.4B of spend across global markets.
• Lead financial planning for Inventory, covering ~$1.9B of inventory across global markets, driving inventory reduction in global brand supply and supporting inventory reduction in all markets.
• Drive productivity savings on logistics costs, across procurement, network design, operational efficiency and end-to-end supply with markets
• Lead the monthly BPM cycle, understanding latest trends, changes, gaps to target and key interventions needed on both logistics costs and inventory Highlight key risks to the forecast and escalate for interventions where needed. Interrogate the assumptions, numbers and the business owners to ensure the forecast is robust and issues are being resolved
• Communicate Logistics COGS position to senior leadership in supply chain, and inventory position in global cash council.
• Understand the details, but be able to explain the total picture in a straight forward way - get the elevator pitch right.
• Drive the annual ASC planning process, outlooking Logistics costs for the next three years, explaining key assumptions across inflation, productivity and other impacts.
• Help set the right targets for the supply chain leads and align the numbers with corporate.
• This role has three direct reports to enable the output and coordinate the required activities

What you'll bring

• Have at least 10 years of experience managing accounting and/or Finance Planning and Analysis
• Develop and manage Ad hoc finance analysis, reports and presentations
• Have strong variance analysis, mix, volume, cost, productivity, inflation.
• Be hands-on and a professional with the attitude to build and improve processes
• Have ability to lead a team
• Have experience implementing and developing projects from the finance part
• Have SAP knowledge
• Shape the future: Developing ambitious plans and bringing clarity to others, analysing data to arrive at core messages, trying new ways and challenges complacency and complexity.
• Win through execution: Setting the bar high for themselves, stepping up and taking accountability, being tenacious and working effectively at speed.

Flexibility

This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time and compressed hours. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.

Diversity statement

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 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. 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.]]>