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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. This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who enjoys balancing financial planning, performance analysis, and pricing strategy to help deliver the region’s financial targets.

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.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills
Advanced PowerPoint skills
Hyperion Essbase experience strongly preferred
Business intelligence tools experience strongly preferred
Nielsen/IRI experience strongly preferred
NABCA experience strongly preferred
Power BI experience strongly preferred
ThinkCell experience strongly preferred

Location

New York

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

5+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Master of Business Administration preferred

Salary/Compensations

$114,000.00 to $142,450.00

Benefits

Professional development
Internal career mobility
Great benefits and perks

About the Company

Pernod Ricard is a global premium international champagnes and spirits company.
We’re the team behind leading brands such as ABSOLUT® Vodka, Jameson® Irish Whiskey, Malibu®, Kahlúa® Liqueur, The Glenlivet®, Beefeater and Malfy Gins, and a leading portfolio of American whiskey brands including Jefferson’s, Rabbit Hole, TX, Smooth Ambler and Skrewball™ whiskey.
Working at Pernod Ricard is all about igniting conviviality in all that we do.
Conviviality means human connection, authenticity, friendly, and jovial.
Conviviality is energy and spirit with a splash of je ne sais quoi and is a core philosophy around how we live and work at Pernod Ricard.
Guided by our 4 core values: (1) grounded in the real; (2) fiercely authentic; (3) passion for challenge; and (4) connected beyond borders; we are team players, dream makers, trailblazers, movers and (cocktail) shakers.
We have a passion for living life to the fullest, making new friends every day, and realizing our potential as people and as a business!
Pernod Ricard USA is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.
Pernod Ricard is a worldwide leader in the spirits and champagne industry, blending traditional craftsmanship, state-of-the-art brand development, and global distribution technologies.
Our prestigious portfolio of premium to luxury brands includes Absolut vodka, Ricard pastis, Ballantine’s, Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, and The Glenlivet Scotch whiskies, Jameson Irish whiskey, Martell cognac, Havana Club rum, Beefeater gin, Malibu liqueur and Mumm and Perrier-Jouët champagnes.
Our mission is to ensure the long-term growth of our brands with full respect for people and the environment, while empowering our employees around the world to be ambassadors of our purposeful, inclusive and responsible culture of authentic conviviality.
Pernod Ricard’s consolidated sales amounted to € 10,959 million in fiscal year FY25.
Pernod Ricard is listed on Euronext (Ticker: RI; ISIN Code: FR0000120693) and is part of the CAC 40 index.

Equal Opportunity

Pernod Ricard USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It employs qualified individuals based solely on ability, training, and experience, and does not and will not, discriminate for or against any employee or applicant for employment or promotion based upon actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service or any other classification protected by law.
Offers will be subject to United States local terms.
Pernod Ricard USA is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Pernod Ricard USA will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. To request reasonable accommodation during the application process, contact us at PR_NA_TalentAcquisition@pernod-ricard.com.