Lead Financial Analyst

**Meaningful Work From Day One**:
**What You Can Expect**:
**Business Analytical Support**
- Financial Performance Analysis: Proactively identify opportunities for business value improvement; analyze problem areas and help identify solutions.
- Portfolio Strategy Support: Work with business and finance leadership on ad hoc projects to support the development of global brand and commercial priorities by category and/or segment to help influence long term strategy, media investment allocation and annual business planning processes.
- Provide analytical tool leadership in the development in these areas to support global portfolio strategy, resource allocation recommendations, competitive analysis, pricing strategy and overall business analysis.
- Geographic and Portfolio Expansion: Provide analytical tool leadership to identify and analyze growth opportunities for market expansion and portfolio development.
- Responsible for the global rollup of the DPP demand forecast for the Jack Daniel’s portfolio, twice per year. This will require developing a robust and flexible financial model, identifying trends and insights, and managing stakeholder alignment. Assess advanced analytics techniques to improve forecast accuracy.
**Data Visualization & Tool Application Development**
- Design, Implement, and Support Business Intelligence reporting using advanced data visualization and analytics tools, with a specific focus in Tableau.
- Design and build publication-ready data visualizations using diverse sets of structured and unstructured data.
- Monitor and resolve performance issues specific to dashboard development and delivery.
- Lead the development of the brand teams visualization techniques.
- Work closely and collaboratively with teams to ensure alignment of views on brand performance, new product development strategy and initiatives and the overall approach on portfolio planning and analysis.
- Provide thought leadership on new areas of communicating and/or analyzing
information.
**Cross-Functional Partnerships & Influence**:
- Strategize in collaboration with functional teams to identify data-driven solutions to ongoing needs across the organization.
- Consolidate and integrate brand information across functions (e.g., consumer, trade, financial) into meaningful insights about brand performance and potential opportunities and communicate to extended brand team members any implications for brand and market strategies.
- Work in tandem with the Advanced Analytics team to develop distributed computing capabilities to handle large-scale data storage and computation, and deployment of such a platform for analytical purposes.
- Strategize in collaboration with finance and marketing teams to identify data-driven solutions to ongoing needs across the organization.
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the global marketing teams and finance leadership.
- Utilize influential communication skills to provide recommendations on potential analytical solutions based on business requests and needs.
- Act as an advocate for the adoption of advanced analytics in the organization. Drive adoption and utilization of developed tools through relationships with business partners and through ongoing training.
- Move forward multiple projects by employing project management techniques.
- Exhibit overall effective communication skills in order to collaborate across all business stakeholders.
**We Are Looking For People Who**:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Business or other business-related degree; 5+ years related business and/or financial experience (commercial, brand and/or consumer-based analysis).
- Fluent in English language, both written and verbal
- Demonstrated business acumen
- Proactive self - starter with the intellectual curiosity to go looking for relevant questions to be answered
- Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in financial modeling and analysis
- Demonstrated ability to lead projects with cross-functional teams to meet consensus goals.
- Demonstrated oral and written communication skills with ability to discuss financial strategies and translate into actionable plans
- Team contributor who puts the success of the group ahead of personal ambitions
- Exhibit the intellectual integrity and professional maturity to provide management with objective and impartial analysis
- Ability to independently plan and prioritize multiple diverse work projects within the department
**Technical Qualifications**
- Demonstrated ability and knowledge of various software packages, particularly Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SAP.
- Extensive expertise in analyzing large, complex, multi-dimensional datasets with a variety of tools, and accomplished in the use of statistical analysis environments, with a specific focus in R.
- Experience with RStudio Server Pro, RStudio Connect, and using RMarkdown for creation of deliverables.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently.
- Extensive experience with Tabl

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