About the role
Job Description
VALUE CREATION
* Create long term shareholder value by bringing financial + commercial visibility + control alongside proactive decision making, to deliver both short term business execution and long term strategic goals: * Co-build with On + Off Premise Heads of Trade Marketing + their teams the long term/ annual / monthly forecast + managing MEC to: * Enable in-year marketing campaign + initiative spend to remain within budget. * Accurately forecast and explain monthly budget revisions that supports volume + share expectations. * Enable long term decision making using financial outlooks, legislative change forecasts, efficiency project expectations. * Support strategic optimisation + efficiency focused projects with both Heads of On/Off Premise Marketing to get more from our budgets, and support the delivery of our strategic goals. For example: * Reduce non working spend to reinvest it into working spend: logistics, print costs, scrappage. * NPD launch optimisation with a POS playbook based on performance insights. * Festivals budget effectiveness + it's commercialisation. * Chiller + POS uplift vs a branding opportunity. * Increase the effectiveness of every £1 invested, by: * Bringing consistent visibility + insight of budget performance, cost driver assumptions, + opportunities to do more with the same investment. * Identifying budget/forecast Risks + Opportunities, identifying solutions that protect the delivery of financial targets. * Create Return on Investment + cost/benefit analysis insights that enable start stop continue decision to improve long term performance, for example: * Pre + Post evaluations on marketing campaigns + POS toolkit playbook. * VISIT asset utilisation evaluation inc warehousing efficiency analysis. * Regional + business unit (eg Musketeers) investment analysis. * Influence ongoing executional performance by measuring + communicating input KPI metrics to secure output performance: * Bring visibility of existing commercial performance input KPIs, for example: * Spend per region, per customer, per print/online, per NPD launch. * Working vs non-working spend including logistics + chillers per channel. * Expand this visibility to not yet measured KPIs to unlock commercial/financial gains.
BUSINESS PARTNERING
* Be an inclusively challenging business partner that unites Red Bull UK with insight + trust + prepares the business to be future fit. * Enable better decisions to be made faster: * Ensure the right stakeholders have the right information in the right format + in the right moment to make the right decision – influence best in class processes + tools that enable better decisions, faster. * Future fit Finance Business Partnering – prepare RBUK for the future * Assess + influence what can be possible with future fit master data + systems setups as the catalysts for intelligent insight + thus proactively disruptive decision making. * Create intelligent insights that proactively disrupt decision making by revolutionising a reporting suite that brings to life commercial performance execution, for example: * Regional + Customer + sub-channel marketing investment. * Non-working inefficiencies. * Be an innovation leader obsesses with simplification: * Reduce wastage with automation. * Ruthlessly simplify complexity within our business environment to empower Business Partners execution, entrepreneurialism, + accountability. * Embed compliance as a business as usual mindset. * Make compliance simple for business partners + daily, not cyclical. * Support the Financial Accounting Team with year end cut off. * Deliver full compliance with Group Controlling guidelines + Audit requirements. * Ensure Red Bull systems reconcile.
Qualifications
* Proven experience in finance business partnering, ideally in consumer goods. * Qualified or Part Qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent). * Fluent written and spoken English. * Inquisitive self starter with endless proactivity and a desire to improve the status quo, who’s a well organised, self motivated team player. Highly analytical with excellent attention to detail and able to quickly identify/assess risks, their impacts and define alternatives. * Good experience of, + extremely comfortable in, an incredibly fast paced environment, excellent at influencing outcomes, self-directed + able to manage own workload. * Numerate, process orientated, personable character able to build strong stakeholder relationships through data based insights + impactful communication. * 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.