Finance Business Partner

Job Description:
Job Title: Finance Business Partner - Leven

Location: Leven

Contract Term: Permanent

About Us

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people. We're looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level

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Then this may be the opportunity for you

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding diverse collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

About You:
We are looking for a pro-active and dependable individual who can quickly build collaborative relationships and unlock new insights to drive exceptional results for the business.

Function: Finance Business Partnering

About the Role:
This role is part of the supply finance team and is based in Leven, reporting to the European Spirits Finance Business Partner (Edinburgh based). The key business partner is the Leven Manufacturing Site Director (based on site at Leven).

The Leven packaging site has more than 20 packaging lines which are split between 4 distinct bottling halls. The site produces 40m cases each year including key brands such as Smirnoff, Gordon’s, Johnnie Walker and Tanqueray.

In the role as FBP, you will be responsible for driving business performance through the provision of financial / commercial expertise and insights. You will be a pro-active and cooperative member of the Leven Senior Finance team, trusted to provide financial leadership and to challenge and influence the organisation to drive value from strategic to operational decision making and execution. You will bring insight and rigour across the end-to-end business performance agenda.

Top Accountabilities:
1. The business partner should be connecting strategy with execution - meaning involvement with or driving major strategic or tactical initiatives such as cost savings, operating efficiencies and capex.

2. Bring financial rigour to decision making, projects and workstreams in support of Supply & Procurement. Including:
a. Bring financial insights to target setting to ensure both short term and multi-year priorities are considered

b. Ad hoc scenario-planning and sensitivity analysis of key performance drivers, including business cases, prescriptive analytics and projects which support the sustainability agenda.

c. Identifying opportunities to strengthen profitability or reduce financial risk through value creation initiatives which reduce COGS and drive margin enhancement.

3. Support the annual planning process through input on strategic target setting and through budget reviews with the Budapest-based Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team

4. Investment appraisal / capex business case preparation

5. Identify opportunities to drive greater efficiency and effectiveness in finance and operational process through leveraging standards, systems, and data.

Through this role you will get great exposure to the Leven Site Leadership team, as well as the wider Diageo Supply Chain Finance & Procurement function.

Experience required/Skills/Capabilities/Languages:
We’d love to work with you if you have a good blend of the following capabilities:

- Dynamic Value Creation - The ability to understand the levers to drive efficient growth & make the right business decision based on data, analysis and the wider business context.
- Critical thinking - The ability to demonstrate discernment and think how the business/market could/should be different in the future.
- Risk Management - The ability to identify, capture and manage risks at appropriate levels.
- Process Transformation - a positive problem-solving demeanour that champions the use of standard, simple, automated end to end processes, and respective controls.
- Excellent communication skills, with an ability to build positive relationships across the business.
- Qualified accountant (CA/ACCA/CIMA/CPA/MBA) with at least 2-3 years PQE

**Benefits**:
We offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package.

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 our business to thrive and for Diageo to 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