Senior Manager Commercial Finance

What makes this a great opportunity?

We are looking for people who bring something unique to Suntory Global Spirits - themselves. We value differences, and we appreciate what each of us can contribute. We inspire each other, and challenge ourselves to innovate, improve, advance new ideas and try new things. We create endless opportunities to Unleash Your Spirit every day in a culture that is charged, creative, challenging and fun.
Suntory Global Spirits is a world leader in premium spirits with $5.5 billion in annual revenues and an ambition to become the World’s Most Admired Premium Spirits Company. We have a strong vision and strategy, an incredible brand portfolio grounded in quality and craftsmanship, an unwavering commitment to sustainability and top talent across the organization. We are focused on driving value across key priorities including American whiskey, Japanese Spirits, Scotch, Tequila and Ready-to-Drink. Headquartered in New York City, Suntory Global Spirits is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings, which is world renowned for delivering quality and excellence across a range of products and categories.

This role offers an opportunity to grow and learn as a business leader, develop an extensive set of skills through a variety of meaningful projects at an all-India level. Working in a multi-function team environment helps you be a leader with impact.
 

Role Responsibilities

Mission of Role 
•    Strategically partner to deliver on commercial ambition through thought leadership and insightful analytics for a sustainable & profitable growth. 
•    Be an enabler for commercialization efforts, adaptation, and adjustment of RGM strategy, policy, and process governance to support Commercial and Compliance requirements in an effective yet efficient way. 
•    Create conceptual and innovative environment for team to deliver on the functional vision that is aligned with entity’s strategy and values.
•    Inspire and develop team members to own responsibility and contribute as independent finance leader of their respective markets. Build and strengthen cross functional connects.

Role Responsibilities 
•    Strategic partner to Suntory Global Spirits India’s growth agenda from Commercial Finance perspective
•    Develop knowledge base of state excise laws and implication to effectively partner in pricing strategy with RGM function over budget and strat plan cycle.
•    Define and drive long term credit strategy for India in partnership with Credit function while ensuring strong control on accounts receivable and collection governance.
•    Partner on policy formulation, implementation and roll out of key initiatives keeping in view dynamic and versatile ask of the market.
•    Participate in key decisions pertaining to strategic initiatives, operating model, and operational execution.
•    Review and define RTM strategy for the organization for profit maximization and customer/ distributor satisfaction keeping in view the industry landscape and category/ product play.
•    Participate in industry body forums to establish connects and understand latest happenings, drive change management, partner, and lead advocacy efforts.
•    Support Internal Controls and Compliances requirements: Ensuring minimal observations in internal and statutory audits and driving minimal observations out of Compliance reviews by partnering with Legal, Compliance and Controlling functions.
•    Collaborate closely with the marketing team to drive innovation agendas, offering critical support in pricing strategies for new product launches.
•    Participate in Gemba with commercial team to gather market insights and provide strategic guidance to enhance business processes in alignment with industry best practices.
•    Strategically review process cycles to drive standardization and automation with an objective to achieve efficiency and eliminate manual tasks and redundancies. Ensure processes commensurate with size, scale, complexity, and business needs. 
•    Build a high-performing centralized team focused on adding value through streamlined processes and simplified ways of working, providing business support and solutions, while developing talent to elevate the overall function.
•    Build strong functional capability at each zone to ensure robust control and efficient working with on ground team as well as strengthen business partnering with all functions.
•    Be a leader with impact to inculcate growth and values driven culture for the direct and allied teams, attracts great talent and retain and develop in house talent. Drive People development and engagement.
 

Qualifications

Experience/ other aspects
•    10- 15 years of managerial experience. Professionally qualified (CA / MBA) candidate will be preferred
•    Role will involve moderate amount of travel

Role Specific Competencies 
•    Strong communication & Interpersonal skills
•    Proficient in MS Office
•    Proactive, takes initiative, team player
•    Strong analytical rigor, strategy mindset and problem-solving skills
•    Strong leadership and organizational skills
•    Commercial Acumen 
•    Stakeholder Expectation Management
•    Compliance / Controlling