Sales Finance Manager

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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.

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!

The Sales Finance Manager is a key finance business partner to the Sales organization, helping translate commercial strategy, and insights into financial plans, and actions. As North America evolves to a customer-led operating model, the role will partner closely with Sales and cross-functional teams to support execution of our Route to Consumer, improve commercial performance and ensure resources are deployed effectively.

The role combines strong financial fundamentals with commercial understanding. It uses customer, channel, market, and financial insights to find opportunities and risks. It also improves decision making and supports delivery of our financial commitments. The Sales Finance Manager will also help maintain a strong control environment while maximizing Diageo's finance processes, systems, data and capabilities to improve efficiency and drive growth.

Partner with Sales teams to drive business performance through strong financial and commercial insights, supporting delivery of financial targets and an effective control environment. Support the execution of commercial and Route to Consumer priorities by translating customer, channel and financial performance into clear opportunities, risks and recommended actions. Provide robust analytics and decision support across planning, forecasting, investment and performance management.

• Support delivery of the financial plan across P&L, cash and balance sheet metrics for the assigned area of responsibility, providing clear access to performance, risks and opportunities.
• Partner with Sales teams to translate commercial priorities into annual operating plans and forecasts, providing financial insight and recommended prioritization.
• Support execution of Route to Consumer and customer plans through robust financial analysis, scenario modeling and performance tracking.
• Manage and optimize trade investment, including budget management,…