Job Description
You are blend of financial expertise and strategic leadership skills. Financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning are things that you live and breathe every day. You are an influential leader that fosters collaboration, sparks motivation and drives results and accountability. You are a great communicator and negotiator able to influence decision making. You don’t let challenges stop you and you have a good aptitude for finding innovative solutions that drive business growth.About the jobAs Commercial Finance Director you will ensure a sustainable profitable growth of the GB business through business partnering Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Growth Management functions. The core purpose of this role is to support the business commercial strategy design and execution, through our Mid-Term Annual Operating Plans, as well as our monthly IBP cycle. The role with a Commercial Finance team of 11 provides strong financial leadership across sales, marketing and innovation. In addition, the job holder is a key member of the GB&I Finance Leadership Team and GB Sales Leadership Team.Growing our Top LineDevelop the financial Strategic Plan for the GB Commercial Business balancing investments across the portfolio to ensure sustained profitable growth.Ensure balanced financial evaluation of New Product Development projects including post-launch financial evaluation.Translate the Strategic Plan into the Annual Operating Plan through robust detailed bottom up planning balancing Brand and Channel targets.Manage commercial financial performance in-year through regular review cycles, identifying necessary course correction.Contribute to the sustainable profitable business growth in shaping the right strategies and providing valuable financial insights and guidance on strategic plan and annual operating plans, targets and business drivers, including brand, customer and channel plans.Work closely with the Revenue Growth Management team to ensure delivery of our RGM Roadmap.Review and challenge IBP commercial forecast.Create value in optimizing return on marketing investment to enable profitable brand growth.Improving EfficiencyCo-lead the monthly closing, forecasting and budgeting processes in commercial and marketing areas providing timely and accurately valuable variance analysis, risks & opportunities and recommended action plans.Review and validate customer joint business plans.Improve commercial financial insights and drive efficiencies in strengthening processes and reporting: plans, forecast, actuals through standardization, automation, simplification, data analytics, external insights.Improve promotion efficiency ensuring robust financial data and providing the relevant support to commercial and RGM teams.Ensure high level of internal controls on trade investment and marketing budget.Champion process and system improvements to drive efficiencies across finance and the broader business.Developing our peopleLead and develop the Commercial Finance team capabilities and actively support talent progression.About SuntorySuntory is a Japanese company and the world’s third biggest player in the drinks industry. We are renowned for our alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks including whisky, beer and soft drinks. Our diverse and iconic portfolio includes amongst many other brands, Orangina, Yamazaki and Hibiki whiskies, Premium Malts and V. We wouldn’t achieve what we do without our people who are at the heart of everything we do. Our people unleash their spirit daily, they craft exceptional drinks, and they fuel our Growth.A future with usJoining Suntory isn’t just about taking on a role, it’s about embarking on a career journey. You have the opportunity to work with talented, inspiring and authentic leaders and have the freedom to dream big and go for it (Yatte Minahare). At Suntory you’ll find a supportive work environment that values work life balance and that will help you realise your full potential and grow for good.About youStrong experience in Finance with track record of leading commercial business partnering finance teams, ideally with both a Sales and Brand focus.Experience in leading planning and forecasting cycles in an FMCG environment whilst driving process improvement in these areas.Expertise in leading, developing teams and coaching for performance.Ability to develop, drive and communicate a vision with senior stakeholders.Instinctively able to challenge status quo with healthy balance of assertiveness and tact.Strategic thinking into action.High level of resilience under pressure.Transformation, project management and change management experience.SAP 4/HANA and BI experience.Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitmentAt Suntory, we greatly appreciate the value that diverse knowledge, perspectives, and backgrounds can bring. Our colleagues from a wide range of cultures, lifestyles, and experiences contribute significantly to our collective success. We understand that our candidates all have unique career trajectories and experiences, and this can sometimes deter you from applying for a role if you don’t feel that you meet all the criteria. If you believe that you have relevant skills and experience that you feel could benefit us, we would love to know what unique perspectives and experience you can bring to help make us better, together in a company that is committed to Growing for Good and Giving Back to Society. Our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based on the skills and competencies of the above role. We are committed to and value diversity, equity and inclusion in our recruitment process and do not discriminate based on gender, race or ethnic background, class, economic status, disability status, sexual orientation, age, political beliefs, marital status or any other protected characteristic. We want to ensure that our interview process is as inclusive as possible. If you require any reasonable accommodation as part of the process, do not hesitate to let your recruiter know who will be happy to help. #J-18808-Ljbffr