Finance Director Africa Partners Market at Diageo

Job Description :

• This role's purpose is to provide financial business partnering to the GM Africa Partner Markets, Commercial, Marketing and Supply Governance teams. The role provides end to end financial stewardship for the Africa Partner Market operations, end to end cycle of revenue, forecasting and planning activities.
• The role will have shared accountability for the delivery of financial goals (NSV, Margin, OP, Cash and Market Share) organically as well as deliver against the A&P plan and overhead targets.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop financial strategies and interventions to enable the delivery of APM’s financial plans, partnering with various functions.
• Responsible for budgeting, accurate volume and revenue forecasting, and financial planning processes.
• Identify trends and opportunities to deliver revenue growth, profitability and cost optimisation.
• Manage, review and report on financial forecasts including comprehensive variance identification in forecast versus actuals and plan.
• Identify risks to the plan and generate ideas to solve for variances to plan.
• Deliver excellent decision support, business performance management (BPM) and present financial performance insights to senior stakeholders and external partners.
• Responsible to managing trade spend, A&P and overheads within approved limits, leads on the S&OP process and M&E.
• Monitor the financial metrics to assess the health of the business.
• Champion and ensure a strong Controls, Compliance and Ethics agenda in line with relevant financial regulations, standards, policies and CARM controls framework.
• Maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders – banks, auditors and regulatory bodies.
• Support partners with capability building on financial management practices.
• Facilitate effective communication between partners and Diageo stakeholders.

Experience, Qualifications and Skills

Qualifications

• Degree in Accounting, Finance or related subjects
• Either CA/CIMA Qualification

Experience

• 7+ years’ experience gained in various finance roles including finance business partnering.
• Strong experience in forecasting and business planning.
• Track record of success in highly demanding environment.
• In market knowledge within the consumer goods industry.
• Experience in RGM is an added advantage.

Key Skills

• Highly numerate, strong analytical and interpretive skills
• People management, communication and ability to build relationships across levels.
• Planning, negotiating and problem-solving.
• Ability to grasp complexity of markets (complex entity structure, multiple channels and markets, languages, cultural differences)
• Ability to influence people across all the levels in the organization.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and work to a series of tight deadlines.