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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 Classic malts. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

The Finance function in Diageo Philippines really is at the heart of the organization. We manage many of the end-to-end processes across our business and partner our colleagues in Philippines market and CoE to identify and create opportunities for our brands. We're custodians of our productivity agenda and committed to creating efficiencies across all that we do, to liberate performance and realize opportunities to release investment for our brands. Embracing a rigorous control and compliance environment is also inherent to how we work. Doing the right thing is central to Diageo's performance ambition and we're proud of the reputation we've earned in this area

Our ambition is to be the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer product company in Philippines, maintain and growing our leadership in International spirits via a deep understanding of Filipino consumers. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

About You

We’re looking for a Highly Passionate, Driven, Strategic Commercial finance Manager that can get into this exciting business at pace and make an immediate impact.  

Function

You will be part of the Finance Function in Market but will partner collaboratively with multi-functional business teams and above market counterparts

About the Role

The Commercial Finance Manager supports development of Diageo Philippines’s multi-year strategic plan and leads the annual financial planning process. It is responsible for proactively providing high quality insights and analysis on drivers of Diageo’s comprehensive performance (Financial performance, Market Share, OWC, ESG) to Diageo’s leadership team, with recommendations on actions/interventions needed to deliver against annual targets.

You will have the opportunity to provide holistic, strategic business and financial leadership to the whole business teams. You will be empowered to manage performance versus agreed targets to identify and flag possible areas of opportunities and/or risk.  You will be in crucible position to unlock opportunities to drive performance and create value. 

You will play a key critical role in enabling new future growth opportunities via a robust innovation pipeline, entry into new categories and exploring business development opportunities and external partnership (e.g. licensing, royalty, etc). You will lead scoping of opportunities, financial evaluation and qualification including appropriate assessment and balancing statutory, tax and treasury considerations.  You will be in a crucible position to make direct recommendations and enable final business decision making.

You will likewise play a crucible role in bringing external insights in by leading the External Intelligence practice.

You will have the opportunity to impart, build and improve finance know-how and thinking to the cross multi-functional to ensure that they are aligned to the company’s financial goals.

The key responsibilities in this role are linked to value creation:

Bring data-led insights –  creating winning strategies  and provoking great business outcomes

Embrace a winning mindset –  having the courage to act

Look outwards – always  adopting an external lens

Lead and embrace change –  creating value and shaping  our future

Active risk managers – guiding  smart business decisions

Top Accountabilities

Functional:

Investment evaluation and resource allocation

Leads the commercial finance agenda, aligned to the long-term strategy and ensuring a strong financial framework is in place to optimize investments

Provide decision support (Stop/Evolve/Start) focused on driving sustainable value, top and bottom line growth

Develop and drive the implementation of local investment measurement and evaluation policy.

Actively provide support to key performance measures, such as provide of timely and accurate financial data and strengthen investment efficiency and effectiveness (i.e. Trade spend, A&P effectiveness)

Strategic performance management

Deliver all metrics of the financial plan including P&L, working capital, operating cash conversion

Lead short and long-term business planning agenda (AOP, SBR) in partnership with cross functional team, aligned to the strategy and ensuring a strong financial framework is in place to optimize investments.

Deliver actionable insights on business performance: 1) Top-line drivers across channels and categories/brands 2) Margin drivers-Volume, Price, Mix, COGS and Productivity 3) Market Share, Stock in trade and ESG

This includes gap identification, appraisal, and approval of measures to improve performance outcomes.

Interpret internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices with quality financial simulation/scenario analysis to generate insight and improve products, processes or services.

Support the strategic planning, ad-hoc projects and other finance deliverables

Data analysis

Collect, organise, conduct critical analysis, interpret statistical information and provide meaningful recommendations and decision support for

Total industry from “International Wine & Spirit Research”

Nielsen data with consumer trends, brands and Channels developments

Diageo Philippines share performance.

Other critical business reports sell-in, sell-out

Constructing and validating predictive models that forecast trends, behaviors, and outcomes, empowering proactive decision-making

Translating intricate data findings into clear, actionable insights that play a pivotal role in shaping business strategies and identify business opportunities, navigate the conversation about resource allocation, monitor needful action to drive sustainable growth.

Developing comprehensive reports, intuitive dashboards, and impactful visualizations to present analytical outcomes effectively to stakeholders, ensuring that data-driven insights are readily accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Leadership:

Win through Execution

Sets and pursues direction without guidance and takes a wide view of their accountabilities

Confident decision maker and confident in managing stakeholders across a matrix organization

External mindset focused on winning quality market share, partnering with commercial teams to build join value creating JBPs with key customers

High energy and ambition to achieve successful outcomes and high standards

Balances analysis and execution and adjusts thinking in the face of new information

Actively spots opportunities or issues and identifies which are urgent and important

Generates a range of workable solutions, decides what should be done and takes action

Shape the Future

Sees the big picture and possibility from multiple angles and through a creative lens

Frames issues in a way that creates clarity and incorporates others' best thinking

Accurately digests large amounts of information and breaks down complex problems thoroughly

Challenges themselves and others to take on new or unfamiliar tasks and ways of working

Inspire through Purpose

Finds broader meaning in their work and aspires to make a significant difference

Reads their environment and understands how culture and context influences people's perspectives

Is actively aware of the impact they have on others and tunes in to the needs of individuals around them

Communicates in a compelling, persuasive and impactful way

Draws on a variety of influencing styles to engage different audiences

Invest in Talent

Displays confidence in their ability to meet challenges and succeed

Maintains belief and optimism and bounces back quickly from setbacks or failures

Demonstrates a realistic and thoughtful awareness of their own capabilities

Proactively seeks feedback and development for growth and takes action

Experience required/Skills/Capabilities/Languages

A strategic finance and cross functional business leader with a start-up mindset who lives up to Leadership Standards, with a proven track record of commercial finance capability, strategic ability to have a long-term vision & plan for the business while delivering consistent, exceptional business performance.

+10 years finance and Commercial finance/BPM/FP&A experience, ideally +5 years being in emerging markets or highly volatile external environments, 3-5 years of demonstrable experience as a Data Analyst, showcasing an impeccable record of tackling intricate data analysis.

Superior analytical capability aided by Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills to draw data-led insights and drive recommendations for decision and action

Demonstrate deep personal accountability for great performance and hold others to account to the same high standards

Demonstrates confidence in managing risk, volatility, and ambiguity – confident decision maker during times of uncertainty

Obsessed with winning with our customers, consumers and shoppers with a relentless focus simplifying process and ways of working to empower teams

Be entrepreneurial (courageous and risk-taking) in facing the market and motivated to leverage the assets Diageo can bring to bear in meeting their objectives.

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.

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

Character Is Everything

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