Diageo

Commercial Finance Manager, Canada

Diageo$90K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of finance experience in a fast-paced environment
  • Proven ability to develop data-led insights to influence strategy
  • Strong understanding of performance management and financial metrics
  • Experience with commercial finance, forecasting, and risk management
  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams including FP&A and supply chain partners

Responsibilities

  • Drive performance management and investment decisions with Regional Performance Directors
  • Provide data-driven decision support to commercial teams
  • Lead the national forecasting process in collaboration with FP&A
  • Manage opportunity and risk to meet financial objectives
  • Oversee Supply chain operations and governance related to finance

Benefits

  • Inclusive workplace culture fostering diversity
  • Opportunities for professional growth and skill development
  • Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that values innovation
  • Build impactful business strategies with global influence
  • Participate in shaping the future of celebrated brands
Full Job Description
Job Description :

About the Function:

Finance at Diageo is about more than the numbers, it's about shaping the decisions behind them.

From guiding investment to unlocking growth, this team plays a critical role in how we perform today and how we plan for tomorrow. You'll work with data, insight and digital tools to influence strategy and help drive a business that operates at global scale.

It's a fast-moving environment where no two days are the same, and where you'll be supported to build your skills, grow your career and make a real impact.

Which Finance organization will you join?

Working in Finance at Diageo, you will be a disruptor, as you will challenge your business partners, a value creator, as you will understand strategic growth drivers and an expert, as you will maintain financial stewardship and accountability. By doing so, you will grow and develop your career across a variety of roles.

About the role:

You will drive phenomenal decision making with your business partner and support the business in setting and realizing its performance ambition and AOP with a particular focus on the Dynamic value creator area of the Finance Mission:
  • Bring data-led insights - crafting winning strategies and provoking great business outcomes
  • Embrace a winning mentality - having the courage to act
  • Look outwards - always adopting an external lens
  • Lead and embrace change - creating new value and crafting our future
  • Active risk managers - guiding inquisitive business decisions


Role Responsibilities:

Functional
  • Partner the Regional Performance Directors in driving outstanding performance management, customer and brand investment decisions.
  • Provide decision support to the commercial teams, which will ultimately improve Net Sales Value, Gross Profit and Gross Margin % whilst delivery gains on market share.
  • Leads the national forecasting process in partnership with FP&A and commercial colleagues managing opportunity and risk management to deliver against financial objectives.
  • Leading the S&OP from Finance with Supply
  • Overall M&E governance
  • Efficiency - SLOBS, Discos and Allocations


Leadership:

Win through Execution
  • Sets and pursues direction without guidance and takes a wide view of their accountabilities
  • High energy and ambition to achieve successful outcomes and high standards
  • Balances analysis and execution and adjusts thinking in the face of new information
  • Actively spots opportunities or issues and identifies which are urgent and important
  • Generates a range of workable solutions, decides what should be done and takes action


Shape the Future
  • Sees the big picture and possibility from multiple angles and through a creative lens
  • Frames issues in a way that creates clarity and incorporates others' best thinking
  • Accurately digests large amounts of information and breaks down sophisticated problems thoroughly
  • Challenges themselves and others to take on new or unfamiliar tasks and ways of working


Inspire through Purpose
  • Finds broader meaning in their work and aspires to make a significant difference
  • Reads their environment and understands how culture and context influences people's perspectives
  • Is actively aware of the impact they have on others and tunes in to the needs of individuals around them
  • Communicates in a compelling, persuasive and impactful way
  • Draws on a variety of influencing styles to engage different audiences


Experience / skills required:

Invest in Talent
  • Displays confidence in their ability to meet challenges and succeed
  • Maintains belief and optimism and bounces back quickly from setbacks or failures
  • Demonstrates a realistic and thoughtful awareness of their own capabilities
  • Proactively seeks feedback and development for growth and takes action

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

Worker Type :
Regular

Primary Location:
Downtown Toronto

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :
2026-07-07

About Diageo

Diageo is a British multinational alcoholic beverages company, with its headquarters in London, England. It is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine. Diageo's brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Buchanan's and Windsor whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. The company was formed in 1997 from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan. Diageo has operations in more than 180 countries and employs around 27,000 people.
Learn more about Diageo
Size
27,783 employees
Market Cap
$100.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.1 billion
5 Year Trend
+5.1%
Revenue
$11.4 billion
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