Finance Manager, Business Planning

About the role

The Finance Manager, Business Planning plays a key role in identifying growth opportunities and providing thought leadership to regional sales teams through routine deliverables and ad hoc analysis. This role partners closely with sales, finance, revenue management, brand teams, and distributor partners to deliver business insights, optimize performance, and support strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Partner with regional sales teams, the Senior Finance Manager, Division Finance Director, and distributor partners to provide business performance tracking, financial insights, and strategic recommendations that support delivery of regional financial targets.
• Prepare budgets and latest estimates for gross sales, price support, customer redemptions, and entity grants, incorporating input from Sales, Brand, and Revenue Management teams, and translate those plans into the Hyperion forecasting system.
• Lead period-end close responsibilities, including accrual preparation and analysis of actual results versus budget and forecast, while reconciling differences between estimates and Annual Operating Plan (AOP).
• Build ad hoc what-if analyses, post-program return on investment evaluations, and other decision-support tools to help leadership assess opportunities, risks, and performance improvement actions.
• Present financial business reviews to division leadership and distributor partners, clearly communicating market dynamics, financial outcomes, and strategic priorities from both a finance and commercial perspective.
• Identify and execute opportunities to optimize regional profit and loss performance, improve spend accuracy within budget, and support market teams in making profitable decisions, including Local Market Fund (LMF) investment planning and tracking.
• Improve net sales performance by identifying and executing pricing optimization opportunities, conducting competitive and price execution analyses, supporting price increases and pricing strategy changes, and ensuring compliance with brand pricing strategy through market surveys, syndicated data analysis, and price elasticity studies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; Master of Business Administration preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in finance, pricing, or commercial analytics; multifaceted experience and/or spirits industry or consumer packaged goods experience is a plus.
• Strong business partnering skills with the ability to work effectively across multiple functions and levels while balancing stakeholder priorities and delivering a high level of customer service.
• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical capabilities, with the ability to evaluate and summarize financial information and turn insights into actionable recommendations.
• Strong prioritization, collaboration, and influencing skills, with the ability to manage numerous competing workstreams under tight and overlapping deadlines.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required; experience with Hyperion Essbase, business intelligence tools, Nielsen/IRI, NABCA, Power BI, ThinkCell, or similar systems strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work in the United States.

Skills

• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience with financial planning and analysis tools.

Benefits

Being part of an inclusive and diverse company where professional development and internal career mobility is front-and-center to our talent strategy. This means your career at Pernod Ricard has many possibilities. 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.

Pay

The salary range for this role, based in New York, is $114,000.00 to $142,450.00. The range may vary if the role outside of this location. Base salaries are determined during our interview process, by assessing a candidate's experience, skills against internal peers and against the scope and responsibilities of the position.

Schedule

This role offers a hybrid work policy, with most positions offering a flexible option to work remotely 2 days a week.