Commercial Finance Business Partner - Trade Marketing

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.