Senior Financial Analyst - RTD at Beam Suntory in Chicago, Illinois

Job Description:

At Suntory Global Spirits, we craft spirits of the highest quality and deliver brilliant experiences to people around the world. Suntory Global Spirits has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company ... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Suntory Global Spirits is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day.

What makes this a great opportunity?

The Senior Analyst role provides a great opportunity for a talented and aspiring commercially oriented finance professional to play a key role in supporting our US RTD (Ready to Drink) business. The role provides for a broad view across a dedicated commercial business as it supports both the longer-term strategic needs of the business as well providing analysis and insights on in-year performance. The Senior Analyst plays a key role in working with multiple internal and external stakeholders whilst supporting our innovation teams as a key liaison with other finance partners as well as the development of P&Ls and multi-year pipeline views. The role is a great opportunity to gain valuable experience whilst enhancing commercial/brand-building in a dynamic environment and can be a stepping stone to future opportunities across the organization.

Role Responsibilities

The role is intended to provide strong finance business partnerships to the RTD & SV team. Specifically, the key responsibilities of the Sr. Analyst include:

• Take ownership of the monthly close and reporting close processes in partnership with other Finance stakeholders and 3rd party partners to ensure accurate, timely, and relevant business results are available for downstream decision-making activities
• Support monthly and quarterly reporting packages and associated presentations, providing RTD-specific analytics as requested
• Identify the key business drivers and dynamics of key markets using syndicated consumption data (Nielsen/NABCA) to provide quality insights alongside the financial reporting to the RTD Leadership
• Support annual planning and 3Y strategic planning cycles in development of P&L scenario modeling, whilst owning the systematic aspects to support all submissions in planning platforms
• Work as a true business partner for the RTD & SV brand teams and finance function for ad-hoc projects and analysis, driving continuous improvement to achieve best-in-class analytics and finance support
• Analyze and track Brand Marketing spend, ensuring a high level of forecast accuracy and investments are optimized whilst seeking opportunities to improve efficiency of spend
• Develop P&Ls for new product launches/innovations initiated by brand teams - Includes new product launches, size extensions, re-design, DTV, discontinuations
• Maintain a long-term view of strategic innovation pipeline across the RTD portfolio, partnering with key stakeholders to understand and quantify impacts to long-term innovation strategy
• Conduct post-performance analysis on key innovations to identify key learnings that can be integrated into future projects
• Assist with benchmark creation across the RTD team, always displaying a PDCA mindset
• Identify opportunities, and implement solutions, to enhance analysis and insights through process and reporting improvements

Qualifications

• Strong finance professional with ~3-5 years of progressive financial experience with proven record of increasing responsibility scopes
• Undergraduate degree in accounting, finance, or another business-related field. Accreditations such as CPA, CFA, and/or advanced degree not required but would be a plus
• Ability to extract, manipulate, and analyze data for key insights with a strong attention to detail
• Prior P&L experience in a region or segment of a consumer facing business would be ideal
• Knowledge of key systems and ability to construct financial model to aid in data analysis
• Able to develop and maintain key working relationships within the organization
• Excellent communication and people skills with ability to develop and maintain key working relationships within the organization and display a high degree of integrity
• An analytical mind, exceptional with the numbers
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stage projects to their completion
• Good business acumen and understanding of strategy, competitive dynamics, pricing strategies, customer economics, brand building economics, ROI concepts
• Demonstrates key competencies to a high standard: Collaboration, Self-Driven, Attention to detail and ability to manage complex data

At Suntory Global Spirits, people are our number one priority, and we believe our people grow together in diverse and inclusive environments where their unique insights, experiences and backgrounds are valued and respected. Suntory Global Spirits is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, military veteran status and all other characteristics, attributes or choices protected by law. All recruitment and hiring decisions are based on an applicant's skills and experience.

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