Commercial Finance Business Partner - Trade Marketing

Red Bull UK is currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Business Partner - Trade Marketing, to be based in the UK.

You will be the co-pilot and sparring partner to the Heads of On/Off Premise Marketing, creating long term value by bringing financial + commercial visibility + control alongside proactive decision making, to deliver both short term business execution and long term strategic goals. You will be an inclusively challenging business partner that unites Red Bull UK with insight and trust, and prepares the business to be future fit.

Every application is reviewed by a member of our recruitment team. We take a people-first approach to hiring, ensuring that every application receives thoughtful consideration.

VALUE CREATION

• Create long term shareholder value by bringing financial + commercial visibility + control alongside proactive decision making, to deliver both short term business execution and long term strategic goals:
• Co-build with On + Off Premise Heads of Trade Marketing + their teams the long term/ annual / monthly forecast + managing MEC to:
• Enable in-year marketing campaign + initiative spend to remain within budget.
• Accurately forecast and explain monthly budget revisions that supports volume + share expectations.
• Enable long term decision making using financial outlooks, legislative change forecasts, efficiency project expectations.
• Support strategic optimisation + efficiency focused projects with both Heads of On/Off Premise Marketing to get more from our budgets, and support the delivery of our strategic goals. For example:
• Reduce non working spend to reinvest it into working spend: logistics, print costs, scrappage.
• NPD launch optimisation with a POS playbook based on performance insights.
• Festivals budget effectiveness + it's commercialisation.
• Chiller + POS uplift vs a branding opportunity.
• Increase the effectiveness of every £1 invested, by:
  • Bringing consistent visibility + insight of budget performance, cost driver assumptions, + opportunities to do more with the same investment.
• Identifying budget/forecast Risks + Opportunities, identifying solutions that protect the delivery of financial targets.
• Create Return on Investment + cost/benefit analysis insights that enable start stop continue decision to improve long term performance, for example:
  • Pre + Post evaluations on marketing campaigns + POS toolkit playbook.
  • VISIT asset utilisation evaluation inc warehousing efficiency analysis.
  • Regional + business unit (eg Musketeers) investment analysis.
  • Influence ongoing executional performance by measuring + communicating input KPI metrics to secure output performance:
• Bring visibility of existing commercial performance input KPIs, for example:
• Spend per region, per customer, per print/online, per NPD launch.
• Working vs non-working spend including logistics + chillers per channel.
• Expand this visibility to not yet measured KPIs to unlock commercial/financial gains.

BUSINESS PARTNERING

• Be an inclusively challenging business partner that unites Red Bull UK with insight + trust + prepares the business to be future fit.
• Enable better decisions to be made faster: 
• Ensure the right stakeholders have the right information in the right format + in the right moment to make the right decision – influence best in class processes + tools that enable better decisions, faster.
• Future fit Finance Business Partnering – prepare RBUK for the future
• Assess + influence what can be possible with future fit master data + systems setups as the catalysts for intelligent insight + thus proactively disruptive decision making. 
• Create intelligent insights that proactively disrupt decision making by revolutionising a reporting suite that brings to life commercial performance execution, for example:
  • Regional + Customer + sub-channel marketing investment.
  • Non-working inefficiencies.
• Be an innovation leader obsesses with simplification:
• Reduce wastage with automation.
• Ruthlessly simplify complexity within our business environment to empower Business Partners execution, entrepreneurialism, + accountability.
• Embed compliance as a business as usual mindset.
• Make compliance simple for business partners + daily, not cyclical.
• Support the Financial Accounting Team with year end cut off.
• Deliver full compliance with Group Controlling guidelines + Audit requirements.
• Ensure Red Bull systems reconcile.

• Proven experience in finance business partnering, ideally in consumer goods.
• Qualified or Part Qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Inquisitive self starter with endless proactivity and a desire to improve the status quo, who’s a well organised, self motivated team player. Highly analytical with excellent attention to detail and able to quickly identify/assess risks, their impacts and define alternatives.
• Good experience of, + extremely comfortable in, an incredibly fast paced environment, excellent at influencing outcomes, self-directed + able to manage own workload.
• Numerate, process orientated, personable character able to build strong stakeholder relationships through data based insights + impactful communication.
• 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.