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.
- 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.
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.