Diageo Recruits Supply Finance Director

Africa is one of the highest growth areas within Diageo and the plans for financial year 2013 (F13) - Financial year 2015 (F15) in Africa include breakthrough levels of trading profit growth. Guinness Nigeria Plc (GNPlc) is the biggest market within Diageo Africa and one of the biggest beer markets for Diageo worldwide and key to Diageo’s strategic intent of becoming a more sizeable player in beer.
Supply is critical to enable such high levels of growth.

Job Title: Supply Finance Director

• Responsible for direct reports and a semi large team with strong functional influence spanning 3 breweries
• Manage wide range of stakeholders including Supply Director, Commercial Director, Senior Group finance  etc.
• Play key role in Supply leadership team, Commercial leadership team and Africa Supply finance leadership team.
• Take the lead in embedding excellent CC&E standards in Supply
• Lead the development of an expert Supply Finance function in Nigeria 

• Developing and leading an expert Supply Finance function in Nigeria, covering performance management, decision support and process / control excellence across COGS, inventory and Capex.
• Partnering with the Supply Director and Leadership team to deliver excellent, well planned outcomes. 

• Developing a strong Supply Finance organisation in Nigeria to enable sustainable delivery of excellent financial results with no surprises
• Driving performance management in Supply across COGS, Inventory and Capex, ensuring transparency, accuracy and delivery of targets
• Building decision support capability in Supply Finance to ensure all key decisions are properly supported locally by quality financial analysis to drive value maximisation
• Ensuring that Supply processes are efficient and well controlled and make best use of SAP functionality
• Partnering with the Supply Director to ensure that CC&E is well embedded across the Supply organisationb>

• Qualified Accountant with minimum 10+ years post NYSC experience
• Significant hands on Supply Finance experience, ideally in a SAP environment
• Broader demand finance experience is an advantage
• Experience of working in developing markets with both in market and cross-functional teams and ideally Supply
• High level of communication and influencing skills.
• Extensive project management skills, both as a leader and key team member.
• Strong background in continuous improvement and exposure to implementing best practice in operations and financial management.
• People management experience / proven ability to identify and develop talent