D&T - Investment Finance Business Partner

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we create brands consumers love. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate and innovate. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Digital and Technology (D&T) team are innovators, delivering ground-breaking solutions that will help shape the future of our iconic brands. Technology touches every part of our business, from the sourcing of sustainable ingredients to marketing and development of our online platforms. We utilize data insights to build competitive advantage, supporting our people to deliver value faster.

Our D&T team includes some of the most talented digital professionals in the industry. Every day, we come together to push boundaries and innovate, shaping the digital solutions of tomorrow. Whatever your passion, we’ll help you become the best you can be, creating career-defining work and delivering breakthrough thinking.

About the role:

D&T IT Investment Finance Business Partner plays a critical role in supporting Diageo Digital & Technology Leadership team in achieving its performance promise by providing world class financial reporting, insightful analysis on overall portfolio financial health, performance, opportunities and risks as well as benefits attainment throughout the complete lifecycle of a project and to manage relevant BAU Budget effectively.

D&T IT Investment Finance Business Partner is responsible to ensure that CAPEX and OPEX investment is managed with consistent approach and performance is reviewed on a regular basis:

• Value Stream & functional budget allocation in line with long term Strategy

• Project Initiation Document (PID, or busines case) approval in line with Statement of Authority

• Track in-flight cost within approved budget

• Track realized benefits following project go-live to achieve our vision and drive competitive advantage for Diageo

• Manage BAU budgets and facilitate to delivering to Productivity Target

Key financial Business Partner for Value Streams supporting financial planning, forecasting, actual cost and performance management whilst ensuring financial discipline and effective controls across IT Portfolio Projects and manage BAU budget

Continually maintain an insight and data driven performance culture through regular monthly BPM and O&R process

Financial approver for D&T funded projects and facilitate approvals requiring senior level sign-off based on the statement of authority

Identify opportunities to streamline and improve portfolio financial process, provide continuous financial capability training and support for above teams

Experience / skills required:

• University/College degree in business / finance / accounting

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in finance and project environment ideally including business case development and financial modelling

• No financial accounting expertise is required, however understanding of the impact/correspondence of investments on the P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow is must

• Strong financial analysis skills and attention to details

• Strong use of Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP), and PowerPoint

• Ability to prioritize and manage expectations of several stakeholders

• Good influencer, at a senior level with non-finance stakeholders

• Experience of working and managing global teams across multiple locations and with diverse cultures

• Experience in Agile method and/ or PPM tools a great advantage

• Commercial acumen

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, so that you’re

supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.

Recruitment Scam Warning

Protecting candidates is very important to us. All communications regarding your application will come from an email address ending in @diageo.com. In our recruitment process, we'll never ask for money.