Senior Brand Finance Analyst

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.

Brand Finance Team

The Brand Finance Team's defined Value is to partner on adding new value across our brands, today and tomorrow, to inspire change in business performance. This is achieved through being the finance business partners to our brands, being responsible for the financial components of

Game Plan and AOP development and challenging and supporting long term strategic planning.

Purpose

The Brand Finance Analyst participates in category and brand-oriented initiatives throughout the organization requiring direct collaboration with Marketing, Innovation, Supply, Commercial Divisions and other functional groups within Diageo who play active roles in crafting brand performance. You will partner with brand teams to craft plans for delivering key outcomes in both areas of current category brand performance and future strategic development. This position will provide decision support, analytics, and scenario modeling for evaluating opportunities and options in service of marketing mission to deliver a step change in effectiveness of growth drivers.

Functional Results include:

• Drive current brand performance processes to unlock deep insights into performance
• Turn takeaways from Business Driver Mix and other analyses to action
• Maintaining brand strategies within an overall Diageo North America portfolio strategy
• Embed critical thinking and a long-term vision creation to improve decision making on short-term investments
• Build brand 3-5 year plans, with P&L development
• A&P investment strategy and prioritization
• Maturation and export strategies for relevant brand categories
• 5 year participation strategy development and maintenance
• Contract management with third party brand partners
• Project decision support for major strategic organization initiatives

Experience

• Strong leadership skills and ability to engage and handle senior partners across the
• organization
• Effective communication, presentation, and facilitation skills are critical
• Consistent track record in strategic and financial analysis, driving insights into action, development of models and building presentations
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity
• Strategy and project management skills
• Standout colleague
• Consulting, investment banking, or consumer goods experience preferred
• Passion for the beverage alcohol industry

Complexity

Central to this role is building and sustaining strong working relationships throughout the organization, including influencing and driving alignment across functions and levels in the organization. The influence and building skill will be showcased through the requirement to work alongside senior leadership. The ability to build and promote strategic plans and undertake strategic analysis is critical to the role. Commercial experience deploying strategies within a business unit is helpful.

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 Diageo to succeed and 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 outstandi