Finance Business Partner - Commercial

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  Location

  (GHANA) and Accra

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  Job Reference

  18734

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  Functional Area/Experience

  Business, Accounting & Finance / Fresh Graduate

Job Description & Qualifications

Guinness Ghana Breweries plc is a top tier beverage company in Ghana.  Our outstanding portfolio of brands includes Guinness, Malta Guinness, Star, Orijin, Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker.

Guinness Ghana plc is a subsidiary of Diageo which has a footprint in more than 180 countries.

Join us, and you’ll collaborate with hardworking people from all corners of the world. You’ll innovate and push boundaries, crafting a sustainable and more inclusive future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's individual passions, commitments and specialist skills. In our encouraging culture, your voice will be heard, and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity, and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people. Join us and help to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.

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

Finance:

The Global Finance vision is ‘One Amazing Team delivering quality sustainable growth’.

Finance Business Partners play a key role within this mission through Challenging and Supporting our Business Partners to make Great Decisions to sustainably grow the business and beat the competition.

What you will do;

• The business partner will be responsible for connecting strategy with execution through.
• Proactive and insightful commercial analysis of business performance issues and opportunities.
• Partner with commercial teams to lead the M&E processes, monitoring trade spend and A&P with efficiency and agility.
• Develop divisional profitability models to monitor divisional business performance by channel and customer and provide strategic insights and advise for business performance improvements.
• Support the annual planning process through inputs into the Annual Planning Process and through the S&OP cycles
• Find opportunities to drive greater efficiency and effectiveness in the business and operational process through using standards, systems, and data.

What you will need:

A University Degree. ICAG/ACCA qualification is added advantage.

Barriers to Success in Role:

• Inability to connect and build positive relationships across functions
• Inability to work and think independently
• Inability to work in an ambiguous and high growth environment
• Inability to analyse data and gather insights
• Lack of interest in data analytics

Job Skills/Competencies Required

We’d love to work with you if you have a good blend of the following capabilities:

• Multifaceted Value Creation - The ability to understand the levers to drive efficient growth & make the right business decision based on data, analysis and the wider business context.
• Critical thinking - The ability to demonstrate insight and think how the business/market could/should be different in the future.
• Risk Management - The ability to identify, gather a mitigate risks at appropriate levels.
• Process Transformation – a positive problem-solving attitude that champions the use of standard, simple, automated end to end processes, and respective controls.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with an ability to build strong relationships across the business.