Commercial Finance Manager, Canada

Diageo•Toronto, ON

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Finance at Diageo is about more than the numbers; it’s about shaping the decisions behind them. From guiding investment to unlocking growth, this team plays a critical role in how the company performs today and how it plans for tomorrow. The role involves working with data, insight, and digital tools to influence strategy and help drive a business that operates at global scale. It's a fast-moving environment where no two days are the same, and where you’ll be supported to build your skills, grow your career, and make a real impact. In this role, you will be a disruptor, challenging business partners; a value creator, understanding strategic growth drivers; and an expert, maintaining financial stewardship and accountability. By doing so, you will grow and develop your career across a variety of roles. 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.

Requirements

Displays confidence in their ability to meet challenges and succeed.
Maintains belief and optimism and bounces back quickly from setbacks or failures.
Demonstrates a realistic and thoughtful awareness of their own capabilities.
Proactively seeks feedback and development for growth and takes action.

Nice To Haves

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.
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.
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.
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.

Responsibilities

Partner the Regional Performance Directors in driving outstanding performance management, customer and brand investment decisions.
Provide decision support to the commercial teams, which will ultimately improve Net Sales Value, Gross Profit and Gross Margin % whilst delivering gains on market share.
Lead the national forecasting process in partnership with FP&A and commercial colleagues, managing opportunity and risk management to deliver against financial objectives.
Lead the S&OP from Finance with Supply.
Overall M&E governance.
Efficiency – SLOBS, Discos and Allocations.