Finance Manager, Pernod Ricard
Business Planning, West
$112.3-130.4k
More information about location
Office located in Irvine, CA
Wine and spirit seller
Open for applications
Wine and spirit seller
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$112.3-130.4k
More information about location
Office located in Irvine, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the magic of human connection by bringing Good Times from a Good Place.
Role
Who you are
- Experience/Background: Minimum 5+ years of experience in a finance, pricing, or commercial analytics role; multi-functional and/or Spirits industry or CPG experience a plus
- Education: Requires a BS / BA degree, MBA a plus
- True business partner – ability to confidently interact across multiple functions and levels within the organization delivering a high level of customer service and understand and balance key priorities and needs of all stakeholders
- Strong prioritization skills – skilled at managing numerous and competing work streams simultaneously, to tight and often overlapping timelines
- Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving abilities; Excellent communication skills with ability to communicate at all levels to a diverse range of stakeholders
- Understand market dynamics and be able to clearly articulate strategic priorities for the business from both a finance & commercial perspective
- High attention to detail, while maintaining sight of the big picture and understanding of “why”
- Strong influencing and collaboration skills, proactive in challenging current ways of working to achieve better results in a more efficient manner while being highly collaborative and able to build cross functional relationships
- Intellectually curious and a proactive problem solver; you demonstrate logic and a creative approach to problem solving while providing actionable insights. Your curiosity leads you to identify opportunities, your determination drives you to implement them
- Agent of Change – you enjoy change innovation with a focus on your customer and lead change through influencing and partnering. You know that the only constant is change and can adapt to work under pressure in a detailed, accuracy and deadline-based environment
- Analytical and agile – your business acumen delivers insight-led recommendations, built on a foundation of analytical skills with attention to detail, enabling you to analyze, evaluate and summarize financial information
- Data Detective – excellent data management skills with a strong analytical mindset; ability to identify data issues and find solutions
- Highly motivated with a “roll-up the sleeves and get the job done” mentality, can work with autonomy
- Accountable and takes responsibility for own outputs and outputs of immediate team; Can prioritize and make clear choices
- Growth mindset
- Exceptional Excel and PowerPoint skills. Hyperion Essbase expertise a plus
- Experience with dashboarding in BI tools (either directly or through BI partners) - demonstrated ability to create dynamic analytical tools leveraging a variety of data sources a plus
- Proficiency in Nielsen/IRI, NABCA, PowerBI, ThinkCell, VISTAAR and/or similar systems
What the job involves
- The position of Finance Manager of Business Planning actively engages the market to identify growth opportunities and provides thought leadership to division sales teams through a combination of routine deliverables and ad-hoc analysis
- The role requires an individual with strong communication and interpersonal skills who is highly analytical and can utilize information to influence a wide array of stakeholders from different business functions in order to achieve the region’s financial targets
- Key thought-partner and advisor to the regional sales teams, Senior Finance Manager, Division Finance Director and Distributor Partners
- Provide business performance tracking and insights to key stakeholders
- Build ad-hoc “what-if” type analysis to support leadership decision making and conduct program post-analysis to evaluate ROI
- Present financial business reviews to division leadership and distributor partners
- Period end close responsibilities including preparation of accruals and analysis of actual results versus budget/forecast
- Prepare budgets and latest estimates of gross sales, price support, customer redemptions and entity grants with input from the Sales, Brand and Revenue Management teams
- Convert budgets and latest estimates into financial plans in Hyperion forecasting system
- Reconcile differences between estimated and AOP
- Identify and execute any opportunities to optimize and enhance the region’s P&L; work with region to identify and mitigate risk
- Execute any RGM led opportunities
- Benchmark processes across Business Planning community
- Maintain accountability for market-level spend accuracy within budget
- Collaborate with state leads and distributor partners to support creation and tracking of local market fund (LMF) investment plans
- Coach market teams to make profitable decisions
- Improve net sales performance by actively identifying strategic and tactical pricing optimization opportunities
- Plan and execute pricing plan including price increases and changes to pricing strategy in conjunction with distributor partners and brand team stakeholders
- Conduct analysis of competitive activity in the market and recommend pricing counter tactics to commercial teams
- Collaborate with state leads and distributor partners on post event analysis and price execution analysis
- Ensure market compliance with brand pricing strategy through periodic market surveys/syndicated data analysis and work with sales teams to execute adjustment plans and Brand & Revenue Management teams to adjust brand strategies to fit marketplace dynamics when needed
- Conduct price elasticity studies to determine volume and revenue implications of price changes within different channels and customers
- Complete and maintain Promotional Calendars for the region
- Coordinate where necessary activities between National and Regional Chains and Independent operators
- Price filings as required
- This position reports directly to the Sr. Finance Manager, Business Planning and will interact directly with multiple teams across Commercial Sales, Commercial & Portfolio Finance, and Commercial Excellence to develop and implement commercial and financial plans that will deliver the growth ambition targets
Our take
Pernod Ricard is the French-founded, global wine and spirits group. Currently sitting as number two worldwide, the company has a clear goal to become the leader of its sector. Amongst its broad portfolio of brands includes Absolut, Beefeater, Jameson, Jacob’s Creek and Malibu.
Founded in 1975, the company has found international success with consistent growth across multiple markets. The company’s model has shifted to best accommodate this expansion, becoming a decentralized group. While the global organization operates from Paris, this HQ respects the operational autonomy of its affiliates across the globe, meaning local customer’s needs are not only met but anticipated for maximum effect.
Pernod Ricard has plans to invest in anticipated growth categories. It has been active in portfolio management with Sovereign Brands, Código 1530 and Nocheluna, and has been reinforcing these partnerships to strengthen its US market exposure. This supports the further enhancement of its consumer-centric portfolio development, positioning it for continued success.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
L'Europe, Paris, France
Leadership
Alexandre Ricard
(Chairman & CEO)Is the grandson to Pernod Ricard founder, Paul Ricard. Perviously served as Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO for Pernod Ricard. Experience as Member of the Board of Directors for L'Oréal, M&A Consultant for Morgan Stanley, and Strategy Consultant in Accenture.
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