Finance Manager, Business Planning

Finance Manager Of Business Planning

Where Conviviality is at work.

Pernod Ricard is a global premium spirits and wine company. We're the team behind leading brands such as ABSOLUT Vodka, Jameson Irish Whiskey, Malibu, Kahla Liqueur, The Glenlivet Gin, and Skrewball whiskey, as well as many more superior wines and exquisite champagnes!

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The position of Finance Manager of Business Planning actively engages the market to identify growth opportunities and provides thought leadership to division sales teams through a combination of routine deliverables and ad-hoc analysis. The role requires an individual with strong communication and interpersonal skills who is highly analytical and can utilize information to influence a wide array of stakeholders from different business functions in order to achieve the region's financial targets.

Major Responsibilities / Accountabilities

Finance and Analytics :

• Key thought-partner and advisor to the regional sales teams, Senior Finance Manager, Division Finance Director and Distributor Partners.
• Provide business performance tracking and insights to key stakeholders.
• Build ad-hoc "what-if" type analysis to support leadership decision making and conduct program post-analysis to evaluate ROI.
• Present financial business reviews to division leadership and distributor partners.
• Period end close responsibilities including preparation of accruals and analysis of actual results versus budget / forecast.
• Prepare budgets and latest estimates of gross sales, price support, customer redemptions and entity grants with input from the Sales, Brand and Revenue Management teams.
• Convert budgets and latest estimates into financial plans in Hyperion forecasting system.
• Reconcile differences between estimated and AOP.
• Identify and execute any opportunities to optimize and enhance the region's P&L work with region to identify and mitigate risk.
• Execute any RGM led opportunities.
• Benchmark processes across Business Planning community.
• Maintain accountability for market-level spend accuracy within budget.
• Collaborate with state leads and distributor partners to support creation and tracking of local market fund (LMF) investment plans.
• Coach market teams to make profitable decisions.

Pricing :

Nature & Scope

This position reports directly to the Sr. Finance Manager, Business Planning and will interact directly with multiple teams across Commercial Sales, Commercial & Portfolio Finance, and Commercial Excellence to develop and implement commercial and financial plans that will deliver the growth ambition targets.

Key requirements

Experience / Background : Minimum 5+ years of experience in a finance, pricing, or commercial analytics role; multi-functional and / or Spirits industry or CPG experience a plus.

Education : Requires a BS / BA degree, MBA a plus.

Required Competencies

Working Conditions

Travel : up to 15% of time (market & distributor visits, off-site training, etc.)