About us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
What does this role look like for you
This role is to support respective markets in managing their Financial Operations effectively and is crucial for ensuring financial stability and supporting strategic decision-making within the organization by delivering accurate data, insightful analysis, and effective problem-solving capabilities.
Purpose of the Role:
- Support assigned markets in end-to-end financial planning, performance management, and decision support across P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash.
- Drive high-quality forecasting, spend governance, and performance insights by consolidating inputs, challenging assumptions, and ensuring alignment with business strategy.
- Act as a proactive finance business partner to Marketing, CP&A, KAMs, CFM, and CR teams—providing clear narratives, identifying risks/opportunities, and improving visibility through structured reporting.
Accountabilities:
- Performance & Spend Management: Own and analyze E2E Trade Investment and Marketing spend, validate reasonability of spending and trends, impacts of accruals (claims, phasing, adjustments) on working capital
- Forecasting & Planning: Consolidate and challenge bottom-up inputs from budget owners, ensuring realistic, accurate forecasts with clear assumptions and risks.
- Reporting & Insights: Deliver monthly reporting, dashboards, and clear performance narratives highlighting risks, opportunities, and key drivers. Perform variance analysis (Price, Volume, Mix, Margin, Operating Profit)
- Financial Control & Balance Sheet: Own and manage creditors position (Trade creditors, accruals, tax etc..), review B/S reconciliations and aging of accruals in collaboration with Finance Controllers
- Data, Systems & Governance: Maintain data integrity across systems (SAP, BW, Anaplan, etc.), including master data, mappings, internal orders, and process controls.
Leadership Responsibilities:
- Partner with Marketing, Sales, Corp Responsibility, In-market Finance team, and Controlling team.
- Challenge business assumptions and provide commercially relevant financial insights
- Support FP&A Lead in prioritization of key focus areas and business decisions
- Build strong stakeholder relationships through high-quality, timely, and actionable outputs
- Lead or contribute to projects and continuous improvement initiatives
- Ensure that the policies and procedures are understood and followed in the team and in the market as well.
Requirements:
- Degree educated in finance/accounting/business or equivalent experience.
- Proven accounting experience within a global FMCG or dynamic operating environment; shared services experience is advantageous.
- Proven ability in:
- Financial modelling, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Trade/Marketing spend management and accrual accounting
- Translating data into clear business insights and storytelling
- Advanced Excel analytical skills — ability to build, manipulate, and analyze large datasets with speed and accuracy (highquality outputs under tight timelines)
- Proficiency in BW, SAP, PowerBI solutions; ability to address system-related challenges effectively.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills across diverse markets/cultures
- Fluent English language skills.
Working with us
Flexibility is key to success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you and we'll work together so that you're supported from day one.
We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
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