Commercial Finance Manager
(Wine Jobs:
Management & Administration)
Full Time
Pernod Ricard
London,
England
Title: Commercial Financial Manager
Location: London
Salary: Competitive
Contract: Fixed Term 9 - 12 months (Maternity Cover)
About the role
Key Purpose:
- Supplying in depth, insightful commercial and financial reporting and analysis across our entire customer base and full P&L. The output should inform and understand our performance towards influencing the trajectory of the TR EMEA business.
- Review and finalisation of all PL’s for the 25 markets within the PR EMEA TR region for reporting, estimates, budgets and strategic planning
- Complete commentaries for the Group (Monthly BU comments, Strategic Brand comments, full PL reporting)
- Build budgeting & strategic planning process from a financial perspective through development of models and templates to ensure robust financial plans
- Responsibility for providing the accurate and effective financial information (restated from FX impact and perimeter impacts) to Executive team
- Ensure corporate reporting & planning deadlines are met and Group guidelines followed
- Provide financial support to commercial and marketing teams as appropriate
- Support and drive Revenue Growth agenda within TR EMEA
Key Responsibilities:
- Support Head of FP&A providing month-end variance analysis, leading 'deep dive' investigations into key emerging or unexplained trends feeding in to the budgeting and forecasting cycles.
- Be a Business Partner of commercial team and leading the financial analysis during annual client negotiations
- Providing analytical support on ad hoc analyses that drive strategic and operational decisions
- Coordinate commercial team and gain insight for the Budget, Latest Estimates, Risk & Ops and monitor/analyse key variances, whilst ensuring timely and accurate delivery
- Be a key and active member of the Revenue Growth community across GTR and share best practices/implement new ideas through comparisons and exchanges with peers in other affiliates
- Support Global projects on the Revenue Growth Agenda
- Lead the Revenue Growth Management strategy within EMEA, working closely with GTR Revenue Growth community
- Producing customer and promotional analysis to ensure profitability of the promotional offer activity
- Build Risks & Opps for the local business as well as consolidating all submissions for the region
- Analysis/review of brand P&L’s through global checks and bridges to explain any variances vs. LY, budget and latest re-forecasts
- Analyse complex information quickly, draw meaningful conclusions and provide synthetic financial analysis that enables the various departments (primarily Sales) to make appropriate business decisions
- Dedicated and complex analytical (‘what-if’) support to the key stake holders
- Continuously identify opportunities to streamline and improve efficiency of financial planning process, accuracy and assumptions that underpin forecasts
- Work on Group projects from a financial perspective
- Managing, coaching and developing direct reports (team of 4 analyst with different levels of seniority)
Key Relationships:
- Executive Committee
- Senior Commercial, Marketing and Operation managers
- FP&A Managers in Asia and Americas for Global Travel Retail
- GTR FP&A team
- GTR Revenue Growth Team
About you
Essential Requirements:
- Qualified (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) with post qualified experience
- Degree educated
- Previous experience in commercial finance / business partnering roles
- Proficient with MS Office tools with Advanced level Excel skills
- Well-developed logical, analytical, problem-solving skills
- A goal driven individual that is both an independent worker and a strong team player
- Strong Ethical framework, high personal integrity
- Line management experience
- Ability to work with tight deadlines
- Systems: Hyperion and Essbase experience
Desirable Requirements:
- Second language (preferable French)
- Financial Accounting
- Audit role in a big 4 firm
- Exposure to multiple currency environment
- Previous experience in the drinks industry, FMCG, Retail or Travel Retail industry
About us
Pernod Ricard Travel Retail EMEA is a subsidiary of Pernod Ricard group, the world co-leader in wine and spirits with a global turnover of ca 9+ Billion Euros. Pernod Ricard Travel Retail EMEA sells and promotes Pernod Ricard brands in the Travel Retail channel (airports shops, cruise ships, ferries, border shops etc) across 25 markets in the Pernod Ricard EMEA TR region
We are a convivial, passionate, entrepreneurial and dynamic company. The group has established a model that places consumers and shoppers at the center of its entire strategic approach. Premium is the heartland of our business and one of the finest collection of drinks brands in the world we have earned the reputation for our unrivalled offering in premium spirits and wines brands that embody heritage, quality and provenance.
Our key brands include; Martell, Chivas Regal, Ballantine’s, Royal Salute, The Glenlivet, Aberlour, Absolut, Malibu, Kahlua, Beefeater, Havana Club, Ricard, Jameson, Jacob’s Creek, Campo Viejo, Brancott Estate, Mumm and Perrier- Jouet Champagne.
Website: https://www.pernod-ricard.com/en
How To Apply
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