Job Description :
Job Title: Head of Commercial Finance EPM Spirits
Location: Budapest
Contract terms: Permanent, full-time

ABOUT US

Our Sales team love building relationships, connecting with customers to sell our much-loved brands in new and vibrant markets where they can thrive. They help sell our iconic brands across 180 countries every year.
We’re operating across different markets, channels, and areas of expertise. Using your curiosity and passion, you’ll make the most of consumer insight and digital platforms, reaching new customers, markets, and celebrations to help us achieve our growth potential. We’ll support your learning and growth as you develop your career with us and work with people across our business to realise your fullest potential.
About the role
Europe Partner Markets comprises of two separately managed business units Spirits & Beer: Spirits region includes markets from Eastern Europe countries, Israel, Ukraine and CIS Countries while Beer region markets from Western & Eastern Europe markets, Israel, Ukraine and CIS Countries. In all markets we have a Partner Markets Distribution model/ distributor model.
Reporting to the Finance Director, Eastern Europe, the Head of Commercial Finance, EPM will be the key financial business partner to Commercial business leads across all EPM business units Spirits/Beer driving value creation, excellent, comprehensive business performance, shaping the future and unlocking opportunities with cross functional teams and both exposure to and influence over the EPM & Eastern Europe Leadership Teams.
Top Accountabilities

Functional:

• Business partner in the overall financial management to deliver AOP performance metrics and 3 to 5 year strategic plans/goals
• Business partner to commercial business lead to drive profitable growth, prioritize resources, define critical metrics and ensure the integrity through strategic leadership and proactive collaboration
• Provoke appropriate responses to emerging issues and opportunities
• Drive & develop the creation of long-term financial channel & customer strategic P&L’s based on consumer, customer, and shopper insights
• Partner with NRM lead to embed NRM standard processes and deliver pricing targets and strategy
• Partner with Supply to ensure giving the right signals for production & support one integrated forecasting
• Using rigorous measurement & evaluation recommend how to invest to grow our business faster, by reposition trade budgets from lower to higher performing channels, sub-channels, customers and brands
• Improving the investment value by optimizing mix of growth drivers, channels, customers and timing
• Support change management and process improvement initiatives
• Ensure best in class process, data and tools are available as well as the appropriate governance and controls are in place for all commercial finance related areas
• Lead high performing and motivated Commercial Finance team
• Drive appropriate financial discipline, develop finance capabilities and provide training, coaching and mentoring on finance skills to non-finance management

Leadership capabilities:
Strong commercial mindset – As a commercial “growth” expert and with an ability to create, drive and translate complex initiative that drive commercial benefit
Externally curious: Seek for information, adopt quickly to the ever changing environment and support the commercial team as well in this journey
Challenge openly - To take on new or unfamiliar tasks, ways of working including initiating/provoke questions/ discussion with commercial, supply etc to challenge status quo and to get to better outcome, more efficiency
Agility - Act at pace and “pivot at speed” leveraging external insights to shape your thinking on where to win
Collaborative efficiently - Building successful relationships with various stakeholders and being able to successfully influence and negotiate in complex situations
Act decisively - Choose progress over perfection, Prioritize what matters most, Commit to decisions and deliver.
Invest in talent - An Energetic character and nurturing leader, who is self-motivated and can inspire/coach the team to achieve beyond

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