Senior Commercial Finance Manager, UK in City of Westminster

As Senior Commercial Finance Manager you will be accountable for providing strategic financial performance analysis and business partner support to the Commercial Team (Sales Leadership, Customer Marketing, Revenue Growth Management) and other relevant UK functions, driving a culture of performance across the business and strong governance. The role is based in London and involves substantial interaction with local teams, Regional Finance and Global Finance.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the financial co‑pilot of the UK Business Unit Director; lead budgeting, financial forecasting, performance analysis and R&O for UK domestic business.
• Provide timely and actionable performance analysis on Volume, Net Sales Value and Gross Profit, including drivers such as promotional activity analysis, customer and brand mix, ROI of GTN investments.
• Support and challenge commercial teams with management/control of pricing, discounts, and trade spend opportunities and effectiveness, including approvals of spend and rebate management.
• Lead the financial budgeting and planning process for the commercial team, ensuring that pricing, discount and trade spends are reflected accurately and executed according to plan.
• Identify, evaluate and communicate risks and opportunities to the business in a timely manner.
• Challenge the status‑quo; continuously look to reduce complexity and simplify processes across planning, forecasting, reporting, rebates management and performance measurement, and leverage supporting systems and tools (SAP, BI, Anaplan, Amalia, etc.) to drive greater value‑added business partnering.
• Ensure adequacy of controls across GTN and strong stewardship and compliance, and support audits (internal and external) including SOX action plans.
• Build and foster solid business partnering relationships with internal and external stakeholders; provide active leadership in the Regional Commercial Finance network team.
• Create a sense of community across Region, Cluster and Country Finance teams – drive best practice sharing and adoption across the region by actively engaging in cross‑Cluster projects and initiatives.
• Motivate, coach and develop the team to consistently challenge the status‑quo and focus time on driving business growth.
• Coordinate the Help Sell functions (Finance, RGM, Supply Chain, Commercial Ops, Category) to create an efficient business performance management framework for the Commercial teams and the UK Business Director.

Skills & Experience

• Strong track record of performance and delivery within Finance in a Consumer goods company with a proven history of delivery in a managerial role.
• Proven ability to work seamlessly within a matrix organisation.
• Solid experience of managing a P&L, rebates, forecasting, ROI calculations, excise & duty impacts, risk management, price structures and financial reporting.
• Strong analytical skills, comfortable with ambiguity, able to summarise complex ideas into concise insights and recommendations.
• Effective communication skills, able to influence senior leaders and motivate change.
• Process focused with an understanding of end‑to‑end business processes and their financial impacts.
• Ability to identify root‑cause issues and develop plans to resolve them.
• Skilled at organising and prioritising multiple projects and resource constraints to optimise results.
• Proven ability to coach and develop winning teams.
• Advanced expertise in MS Office, including Excel and Power BI (pivots, VLOOKUP, conditional functions, etc.), data collection and analytics.
• Proficiency in English.
• Experience in the Spirits Industry is an advantage.
• Experience in additional functions beyond the ones listed above.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or equivalent; accounting qualification such as ACA, CA or CIMA.

Personal Qualities

• Change agent – continuously look for opportunities to improve processes, simplify and provide recommendations for improvement.
• High‑energy, sense of urgency, accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strategic thinker with a deep understanding of business and category drivers.
• Strong customer focus with an external outlook.
• Capacity to create a culture of belonging.
• High self‑awareness and reflective; understands strengths, weaknesses and impact on others.
• People agility – navigate tough situations to harness and multiply collective performance.
• Results agility – deliver results in first‑time situations by inspiring teams.
• Mental agility – think critically to penetrate complex problems and expand possibilities.
• Change agility – curiosity, experimentation and effective adaptation to change.
• Growth mindset – test, learn and apply from experience.

Benefits

• Competitive Pay Package
• Holiday / Paid Time Off, including volunteer day
• Retirement / Pension Plan
• Health & Wellbeing – medical, critical illness, life insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Family‑friendly and inclusive leave policies
• Equal Employment Opportunity

Bacardi seeks talent from all backgrounds to bring diversity of thought, agility and capability to our organization across the globe. We promote a working environment where all employees are treated and rewarded fairly. Discrimination on the basis of national origin, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age or any other legally protected aspect is not tolerated.