Finance Manager - Plainfield, United States - Diageo

Diageo
Diageo
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Plainfield, United States

1 week ago

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Job Description:
Which company will you join?


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

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day.

To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do.

Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one's talent and personality.


Job Overview:
The Supply Finance Manager Strategic Programs is a key role within Diageo North America Supply's strategy team.

Our focus is on building the supply chain of our future - delivering against our pillars of growth, sustainability, resiliency, and cost optimization.

This position will report to the L4 Supply Finance Director - Strategic Programs and work in partnership with the Supply Strategy and Program Management team.

This is a project based role, which is expected to support the team until H1 F27.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Long term scenario modeling and financial thought leadership to facilitate Diageo's North America supply chain strategy to deliver Diageo's new and bold longterm growth ambitions
  • Opportunity evaluation for various supply chain solutions to deliver optimized cost and margin for the growth ambitions across Diageo's supply chain
  • Programs to include new suppliers, internal investments across existing and new production facilities, introduction of new third party partnerships, or distribution centers
  • Collaborate with business functions to ensure timely delivery of supply chain initiatives. Analyze for risks and opportunities and work with partners to overcome barriers.
  • Lead financial process execution and financial reporting of strategic supply chain programs. Project benefit analysis, CAPEX and OPEX reporting.
  • Lead all aspects of costing and variance analysis of delivered programs through handoff to business divisions.
  • Lead through the high level of complexity to align a focused and clear plan:


  • Procurement

  • Ensure our sourcing strategy aligns with our supply chain footprint transformation to drive long term productivity and continuity.


  • Manufacturing

  • Navigate highly constrained environment while improving our continuity plans and growth ambitions.
  • Partner with the manufacturing team to investigate various filling capacity unlocks for internal sites and CAPEX recommendations.


  • Planning and Logistics

  • Partner with team to develop an optimized route to market connection with the manufacturing strategy to deliver the right product mix to the right distribution points.

Location:


Based in one of our existing NAM Supply Network locations, Kentucky or Illinois preferred with travel as needed to other supply locations.


Experience and Skills required:

  • 7+ years experience in various roles demonstrating increasing responsibilities.
  • Strong financial analysis competence, including ability to distill complex issues into a financial analysis to support decision making or vice versa ability to take limited information and still develop financial perspective to support decision making.
  • Supply cross functional experience. Financial assessment of end to end manufacturing network projects and associated cost structures is important to guide the right conversations.
  • Solid accounting knowledge.
  • Experience in handling budgets, forecasts, and financial reporting.
  • Strong communication and leadership skills to engage, handle and influence senior customers across the organization.
  • Ability to influence and build alignment cross functionally and at all levels of the organization.
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity and change. (every day in this role will be different)

Skills to be developed:

  • Mastery in financial analysis modeling. To develop accurate business proposals for future investments including NPV analysis, Return-OnInvestment, and the associated risk analysis.
  • Critical thinking and 5+ year strategic glidepath work
  • Experience in Supply Network design and optimization
  • Change management and project management experience
  • Validated ability to effectively operate as finance leader in a setting with multiple senior business partners (L4 and up)
  • Effective communication and influencing skills to succes
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