Finance Manager

Description:

The Finance Manager, Business Planning plays a critical role in identifying growth opportunities and providing strategic financial support to division sales teams through a combination of routine deliverables and ad hoc analysis. This position partners closely with sales, finance, revenue management, brand teams, and distributor partners to deliver insights that support sound decision-making and strong business performance. The role is ideal for a highly analytical and collaborative professional who can translate data into actionable recommendations and influence a broad range of stakeholders. This is a strong opportunity to drive business impact through financial planning, performance analysis, and pricing strategy.

Who Will Love This Job

This role will appeal to someone who is analytical, commercially minded, and energized by influencing business decisions through data and insight. You will do well in this position if you are a strong communicator who can build relationships across functions, manage competing priorities, and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, detail-oriented, and proactive in identifying opportunities to improve performance and ways of working. This job is also well suited for someone who enjoys balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

What You’ll Do
 

• Partner closely with regional sales teams, the Senior Finance Manager, Division Finance Director, and distributor partners to provide business performance tracking, insights, and financial guidance in support of regional targets.
• Prepare budgets and latest estimates for gross sales, price support, customer redemptions, and entity grants, incorporating input from Sales, Brand, and Revenue Management teams, and convert those plans into the Hyperion forecasting system.
• Manage period-end close activities, including accrual preparation and analysis of actuals versus budget and forecast, and reconcile differences between estimates and the Annual Operating Plan.
• Build ad hoc what-if analyses and post-program return on investment reviews to support leadership decision-making and evaluate business performance.
• Present financial business reviews to division leadership and distributor partners, communicating results, insights, risks, and opportunities clearly and effectively.
• Identify and execute opportunities to optimize regional profit and loss performance, improve spend accuracy, mitigate risks, and support market teams in making profitable business decisions.
• Lead and support pricing initiatives by identifying optimization opportunities, executing pricing plans, conducting competitive and price execution analyses, ensuring compliance with brand pricing strategy, and evaluating the financial impact of price changes across channels and customers.
   

What’s in it for me?

Being part of an inclusive and diverse company where professional development and internal career mobility is front-and-center to our talent strategy. This means your career at Pernod Ricard has many possibilities. You'll be part of a culture that celebrates the rich diversity of our people across the globe and be part of our long-standing commitment to making exceptional products, giving back to our communities, and honoring our responsibility to preserve the environment.

Required Qualifications
 

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA is a plus
• 5+ years of experience in finance, pricing, or commercial analytics; multifaceted experience and/or spirits industry or consumer packaged goods experience is a plus.
• Strong business partnering skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple functions and levels while balancing stakeholder priorities and delivering a high level of service.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn data into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing workstreams and tight timelines.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required; experience with Hyperion Essbase, business intelligence tools, Nielsen/IRI, NABCA, Power BI, ThinkCell, or similar systems preferred.