About the role
Job Description
General Day-to-Day
* Is the catalyst in our commercial excellence strategy and a driving force in the finance department, who accelerates the connectivity and performance of finance with the rest of the business. * Builds a solid relationship with budget holders based on mutual respect and trust. * Guarantees full compliance with the Group Controlling guidelines and Audit requirements. * Designs the system setup, to perfectly mirror the responsibilities in the organization, to enable innovation developments to create value and remove wastage. * Is driven through a service mentality: sharing insights, supporting budget spend and appraisals, highlighting R+Os, providing financial simulations and business cases proposals.
People Management
* Build, lead and develop a high-performing team who are the glue of RBUK, who go above and beyond to collaborate with business partners and unite the business as a result of having been set clear expectations, priorities and performance standards aligned to business goals. * Foster a high-performance culture that promotes feedback, accountability, ownership, continuous improvement and a strong focus on results, without compromise on having fun. * Consistently give in the moment and longer term feedback with regular performance reviews, coaching conversations and development planning to maximise individual and team potential. * Develop and retain talent through effective succession planning and targeted learning opportunities. * Create an inclusive, engaged and collaborative team environment that supports employee wellbeing, encourages innovation and enables outstanding performance.
Month End Closing
* Coordinates, prepares, reviews, and reports on RBUK volume and revenue performance, leading Commercial Director reviews, and reporting deliverables to the business, local to HQ. * Manages Sales cut off, revenue recognition, monthly accrual posting accuracy and compliance. * Ensures systems reconcile, and any error resolutions are complete with HQ team. * Ensures master data quality of systems, including customer, product, internal order hierarchies.
Reporting and Analysis
* Develop a reporting and analysis suite to evolve business financial insights that enables better decisions, faster, and investments to be optimised, shaping forecasts + financial strategy. These should optimise and standardise weekly/monthly management information, analysis, and insight. * Critically assess investment evaluations and performance, by sku, pack type, product range, period. * Leads analysis, modelling, and evaluation on strategic projects such as profitability initiatives and efficiencies, business cases, systems usage improvement, and audits. * Consistently unlock innovation in the day to day to drive simplification for stakeholders and finance.
Forecasting
* Leads the monthly volume and revenue forecasting process – preparation, review meetings, alignment and communication of adjustments, system submission, reporting and analysis to stakeholders. * Identifies and manages financial risks/opportunities for mitigation or decision making. * Leads the annual volume and revenue forecasting process – supporting true bottom up planning process that delivers the correct strategic outlook and priorities using inclusive challenge and analytical support to influence outcomes and produce a highly accuracy forecast. * Scenario models, and aggregates/consolidates individual plans to a total plans.
Business Partnering
* Be the co-pilot and sparring partner of the Commercial Directors and their direct reports. * Be the sparing partner of the Finance Management Team. * Use facts, figures and analysis to identify and prioritise performance improvement plans. * Lead on strategic projects such as long-term pricing, customer investment optimisation, Group Controlling Guideline audits, robotics efficiencies, reporting developments. * Build and solidify Local + HQ finance relationships and mindsets.
Qualifications
* Strong experience of Director level finance business partnering in consumer goods. * Sales finance experience including volume, price (per unit) and mix variance analysis. * Qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent, QBE). * Fluent written and spoken English. * Good experience of, and extremely comfortable in, an incredibly fast paced environment, with endless proactivity and initiative to find answers, problem solve, and work as a team. * A structured, well-organised individual, with excellent attention to detail and influencing skills, able to manage own workload, tenacious, self-motivated, and self-directed, comfortable under pressure in a fast-paced team environment. * Highly analytical, inquisitive self-starter with a desire to improve the status quo at all times, the ability to quickly identify and assess risks and impacts, and able to define alternatives. * Numerate, process orientated, personable, outgoing character able to build strong relationships with their stakeholders and provide constructive input with a demonstrable service/work ethic. * Good communication and presentation skills. Capable of communicating precisely and effectively, based on facts, with internal stakeholders up to Leadership Team level. * Clearly demonstrates the values and behaviours of Red Bull with a strong affinity to the brand. * IT literate, excellent knowledge of the following tools: MS Excel, SAP BI, Hyperion.
Additional Information
At Red Bull, we exist to give people wiiings. To achieve that, we recognise the value that comes from having a highly diverse workforce that has the freedom and responsibility to realise their ideas and seize opportunities. We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills, potential and talent: everyone is welcome here.