Temporary work opportunities align well with people who are looking for career flexibility and less traditional ways of working, but at the same time are people driven to deliver amazing work in high-profile situations. Magnit Direct Sourcing is a service offered by Magnit Global that provides top talent directly to industry leading clients who have flexible temporary assignments that work on a variety of projects and unlock opportunities for exciting work.  As a temporary contractor, you’ll be employed by our Managed Service Provider, Magnit Global, who manages most of our temporary contract hiring.  You will not be employed by Diageo.   

This temporary assignment will be working with Diageo. Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge, and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovate experiences that bring people together to celebrate life.  Visit Diageo’s global responsible drinking resource, Drink IQ, for information, initiatives, and ways to share best practices.  Celebrating life, every day, everywhere.   

Commercial Finance Manager 

This is a temporary contractor position for an existing vacancy. 

About us:  

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.   

Join us to create a career worth celebrating. 

About the Function: 

Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We’re part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth. Whether we’re utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future — no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we’ll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.   

About the Role: 

This role partners with regional teams ans performance leaders to deliver forecasting, budgeting, and decision support analysis. 

About the Team: 

Diageo Commercial Finance teams are central to the delivery of key business objectives and targets across the P&L, Balance Sheet and broader market share. The teams are respected business partners to their customers inside and outside of the function and work to craft the future of the Canada business. 

Purpose of the Role: 

You will drive phenomenal decision making with your business partner and support the business in setting and realizing its performance ambition and AOP with a particular focus on the Dynamic value creator area of the Finance Mission. 

Role Responsibilities:  

• Bring data-led insights – crafting winning strategies and provoking great business outcomes 
• Embrace a winning mentality – having the courage to act 
• Look outwards – always adopting an external lens 
• Lead and embrace change – creating new value and crafting our future 
• Active risk managers – guiding inquisitive business decisions 

Experience/Skills Required: 

• Business Partner to Marketing Director, On Premise Director, Innovation Director and Customer Marketing Director 
• Business Performance Planning (BPP) lead, owning modelling and driving the process with FD, GM and Strategy and Planning Director. 
• Support the MBP process with financial modelling and brand investment plans 
• A&P financial ownership 
• Supporting on A&P decision making, incremental opportunity governance 
• Partnering commercial excellence to drive actions from A&P M&E. 
• Partnering On Premise Director on efficient and effective spend allocation 

Win through Execution 

• Sets and pursues direction without guidance and takes a wide view of their accountabilities 
• High energy and ambition to achieve successful outcomes and high standards 
• Balances analysis and execution and adjusts thinking in the face of new information 
• Actively spots opportunities or issues and identifies which are urgent and important 
• Generates a range of workable solutions, decides what should be done and takes action 

Shape the Future  

• Sees the big picture and possibility from multiple angles and through a creative lens 
• Frames issues in a way that creates clarity and incorporates others' best thinking 
• Accurately digests large amounts of information and breaks down sophisticated problems thoroughly 
• Challenges themselves and others to take on new or unfamiliar tasks and ways of working 

Inspire through Purpose 

• Finds broader meaning in their work and aspires to make a significant difference 
• Reads their environment and understands how culture and context influences people's perspectives 
• Is actively aware of the impact they have on others and tunes in to the needs of individuals around them 
• Communicates in a compelling, persuasive and impactful way 
• Draws on a variety of influencing styles to engage different audiences 

Diversity statement: 

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity. 

We know that for Diageo to succeed and realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the outstanding contribution each person brings. 

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.  

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.  

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.  

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.  

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.   

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