Business Reporting Manager (Wine Jobs: Management & Administration)

The Finance department is responsible for the organisation of the Company’s financial and accounting affairs including the preparation and presentation of business accounts and the provision of financial information for managers. Furthermore, it provides tools and insights to protect and leverage the Company’s assets including:

Business Insight - Give timely and relevant insight, provide opportunity and risk identification, offer return on investment optimisation and commercial negotiation support.

Business Intelligence - Provide and maintain dedicated business intelligence tools to help monitor the business and have relevant dashboards.

Profit and Cash Management - Set and monitor delivery of stretch targets and manage financial flow to meet Pernod Ricard Group expectations.

Robust and User Friendly Control Environment - Provide a professional framework for customer and supplier commitments, along with asset protection and financial accounts integrity and tax/regulatory compliance.

Legal Advice - Provide risk management and ensure embedding of commercial and marketing contractual advantage.

The key purpose of this role is to ensure all external and internal reporting commitments are met. Responsible for the analysis & reporting of financial & commercial information of the business. Produce timely Budget, re-forecasts and 5Yr plan by

applying the necessary quality controls. Manages and develops a team.

Responsibilities:

- Reporting and analysis: Prepares on-time reporting of all management reporting data in the FinancialManagement system managed by the Group (PRISMA), follow up and resolution of reporting exceptions/issues.

- Month end reporting, responsible for the preparation of the month end reporting P&L by brand and by customer and input data in PRISMA (Hyperion reporting tool used by the Pernod Ricard Group) according

with deadlines. Scope is > 300 PLs on a monthly basis.

- Budget/Reforecast/5 YR Strategic Plan, responsible for the preparation of the P&L and upload into PRISMA as per deadlines.

- Rebates and commissions: Ensure that P&Ls by brand and by customer are accurate by being responsible for the calculation of the Rebates and Commissions (ca. 16 M£).

- Preparation of rebates and commissions accrual on a monthly basis. Challenges the calculation by  comparing vs. LY and Budget and explain all variances to Head of Financial Planning and Analysis and Finance Director.

- Liaise with the Business Analyst Assistants/RSM's in order to get the latest customer depletions used to build the accrual.

- Maintains and updates the R&C database used to calculate the YTD accrual so pricing/channels split is the most up to date in order to ensure accuracy of the accrual.

- Quarterly review/update and check of the YTD R&C accrual vs. invoices received to determine potential under accrual or over accrual

- Develop/maintain the R&C databases used in the calculation of accruals for Budget/Strategic Plan/Reforecast.

- Liaise with the PRISMA team (in Paris) via Periscope Group web site on any issues regarding the submission of the P&Ls for reporting/strat. Plan/reforecast.

- Support the operations team for CTS reporting

- Line management.

- Half year and year end requirements as required

- Group projects and ad hoc analysis as required