Finance Manager, A&P Business and Process

Pernod Ricard • New York, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Finance Manager, Advertising & Promotional (A&P) Business and Process plays a key role supporting one of the most essential cross-functional activities in the company: A&P spend planning, monitoring, and analysis. As the A&P business and process owner, this role will focus on enhancing the A&P system, simplifying A&P-related processes, and improving data quality to enable data-driven decisions. You will partner closely with Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Information Technology to prioritize enhancements and remove roadblocks for end users. This role reports to the Director, A&P and Market Performance.

This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys being the “go-to” finance partner for systems, process, and data. You’re energized by improving how work gets done—simplifying workflows, raising data quality, and making tools easier for teams to use. You’re confident building relationships across Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Information Technology, and you can balance competing priorities to drive the right outcomes. You bring a structured, project-oriented approach and follow through—especially during testing, rollouts, and change management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years of experience in finance FP&A, finance reporting, or financial systems with demonstrated career progression.
• Proven experience driving improvements in process and ways of working across stakeholders (project management experience strongly preferred).
• High level of comfort navigating and managing financial data, with a focus on data quality and consistency.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and partner cross-functionally to balance stakeholder priorities and needs.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent relationship building and communication skills; able to drive collaboration and communicate at all levels.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the A&P systems expert from a finance lens by maintaining and enhancing the A&P system, ensuring it meets end-user needs and supports business planning and reporting.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Information Technology to control and prioritize enhancements based on business needs and teams’ roadblocks for continuous tool and data improvement.
• Secure funds and resources for system implementations, qualification, and validation, and coordinate inputs needed to move initiatives forward.
• Project manage enhancement development and testing (including leading User Acceptance Testing) to ensure enhancements are delivered on time, work as intended, and align with strategic intent.
• Own change management related to enhancements and system updates, including communications, adoption support, and ensuring teams are ready for changes.
• Support A&P business planning and process activities by building and maintaining the A&P planning template with key stakeholders, ensuring data quality and consistency with brand/market/touchpoint strategy.
• Enable business users day-to-day by acting as the subject matter expert for budget maintenance, invoicing, purchase orders, and reporting, and by leading weekly A&PO Office Hours to troubleshoot issues.
• Maintain documentation and training by keeping A&P materials up-to-date and ensuring ongoing training for users and new hires on systems, governance, and ways of working.
• Partner with global teams to ensure alignment on taxonomy, strategic intent, and best practices.

Benefits

• Being part of an inclusive and diverse company where professional development and internal career mobility is front-and-center to our talent strategy.
• You'll be part of a culture that celebrates the rich diversity of our people across the globe and be part of our long-standing commitment to making exceptional products, giving back to our communities, and honoring our responsibility to preserve the environment.
• We offer a flexible work policy, with most of our positions offering a a hybrid option with flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week.
• We offer employees great benefits and perks to toast to a life filled with support.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager