Head of Commercial Finance - Sales

General Day-to-Day

• Is the catalyst in our commercial excellence strategy and a driving force in the finance department, who accelerates the connectivity and performance of finance with the rest of the business.
• Builds a solid relationship with budget holders based on mutual respect and trust.
• Guarantees full compliance with the Group Controlling guidelines and Audit requirements.
• Designs the system setup, to perfectly mirror the responsibilities in the organization, to enable innovation developments to create value and remove wastage.
• Is driven through a service mentality: sharing insights, supporting budget spend and appraisals, highlighting R+Os, providing financial simulations and business cases proposals.

People Management

• Build, lead and develop a high-performing team who are the glue of RBUK, who go above and beyond to collaborate with business partners and unite the business as a result of having been set clear expectations, priorities and performance standards aligned to business goals.
• Foster a high-performance culture that promotes feedback, accountability, ownership, continuous improvement and a strong focus on results, without compromise on having fun.
• Consistently give in the moment and longer term feedback with regular performance reviews, coaching conversations and development planning to maximise individual and team potential.
• Develop and retain talent through effective succession planning and targeted learning opportunities.
• Create an inclusive, engaged and collaborative team environment that supports employee wellbeing, encourages innovation and enables outstanding performance.

Month End Closing

• Coordinates, prepares, reviews, and reports on RBUK volume and revenue performance, leading Commercial Director reviews, and reporting deliverables to the business, local to HQ.
• Manages Sales cut off, revenue recognition, monthly accrual posting accuracy and compliance.
• Ensures systems reconcile, and any error resolutions are complete with HQ team.
• Ensures master data quality of systems, including customer, product, internal order hierarchies.

Reporting and Analysis

• Develop a reporting and analysis suite to evolve business financial insights that enables better decisions, faster, and investments to be optimised, shaping forecasts + financial strategy. These should optimise and standardise weekly/monthly management information, analysis, and insight.
• Critically assess investment evaluations and performance, by sku, pack type, product range, period.
• Leads analysis, modelling, and evaluation on strategic projects such as profitability initiatives and efficiencies, business cases, systems usage improvement, and audits.
• Consistently unlock innovation in the day to day to drive simplification for stakeholders and finance.

Forecasting

• Leads the monthly volume and revenue forecasting process – preparation, review meetings, alignment and communication of adjustments, system submission, reporting and analysis to stakeholders.
• Identifies and manages financial risks/opportunities for mitigation or decision making.
• Leads the annual volume and revenue forecasting process – supporting true bottom up planning process that delivers the correct strategic outlook and priorities using inclusive challenge and analytical support to influence outcomes and produce a highly accuracy forecast.
• Scenario models, and aggregates/consolidates individual plans to a total plans.

Business Partnering

• Be the co-pilot and sparring partner of the Commercial Directors and their direct reports.
• Be the sparing partner of the Finance Management Team.
• Use facts, figures and analysis to identify and prioritise performance improvement plans.
• Lead on strategic projects such as long-term pricing, customer investment optimisation, Group Controlling Guideline audits, robotics efficiencies, reporting developments.
• Build and solidify Local + HQ finance relationships and mindsets.

• Strong experience of Director level finance business partnering in consumer goods.
• Sales finance experience including volume, price (per unit) and mix variance analysis.
• Qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent, QBE).
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Good experience of, and extremely comfortable in, an incredibly fast paced environment, with endless proactivity and initiative to find answers, problem solve, and work as a team.
• A structured, well-organised individual, with excellent attention to detail and influencing skills, able to manage own workload, tenacious, self-motivated, and self-directed, comfortable under pressure in a fast-paced team environment.
• Highly analytical, inquisitive self-starter with a desire to improve the status quo at all times, the ability to quickly identify and assess risks and impacts, and able to define alternatives.
• Numerate, process orientated, personable, outgoing character able to build strong relationships with their stakeholders and provide constructive input with a demonstrable service/work ethic.
• Good communication and presentation skills. Capable of communicating precisely and effectively, based on facts, with internal stakeholders up to Leadership Team level.
• Clearly demonstrates the values and behaviours of Red Bull with a strong affinity to the brand.
• 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.