Commercial Finance Manager Portugal Lisboa

Commercial Finance Manager Portugal
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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YOUR OPPORTUNITY

As Commercial Finance Manager for Portugal, you’ll be a core member of the Portugal Leadership Team and the right‑hand to the Head of Commercial. You will drive financial performance, influence strategic decisions, and embed world‑class finance practices across the market. You’ll partner with Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and Shared Services to ensure Bacardi Portugal meets its short‑term targets and long‑term growth objectives.

About You

You must be a
- starter, fearless to influence
- making, and drive capability across Portugal, mixing detail & the bigger picture to drive growth in line with strategy.

You must demonstrate a Founder’s mentality, taking ownership for the P&L & our core KPIs to help Portugal beat dynamic plan.

As a leader within the South Cluster Finance team, you will consistently drive high performance with your team and be comfortable influencing & communicating across the matrix at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnering: Shape Portugal’s commercial agenda: lead Commercial Finance and support RGM initiatives (pricing, mix, promotions) to maximize revenue and margin.
• Provide decision support to Marketing and Sales on brand investments, innovation business cases, and promotional spend ROI.
• Collaborate with the Head of Commercial and Leadership Team to align financial plans with Portugal’s strategic priorities.

• Planning, Forecasting & Analysis: Own the Market P&L: produce monthly/quarterly forecasts and variance analyses against budget, dynamic plan, and prior periods.
• Lead cadence of regular business reviews, focused on identifying key drivers of variances to plan.
• Build simulations and sensitivity analysis to highlight risks and opportunities vs current trajectories/forecasts and drive corrective actions.
• Lead the financial planning & forecasting processes for Portugal (Budget, Dynamic Plan, IAP).
• Collaborate & communicate with the South Cluster finance team to evaluate and act on results, trends, developments.

• Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting: Prepare management reports, dashboards, and presentations with clear commentary.
• Escalate and resolve customer disputes related to billing or credit control as needed.
• Represent Bacardi in meetings with banks, regulators, and statutory authorities.

• Governance & Controls: Ensure full compliance with local statutory accounting, internal policies, and audit requirements.
• Interface with Bacardi Enterprise Services (BES), Tax, and Internal Audit to resolve issues and improve processes.
• Maintain robust control frameworks and SLAs with
  - service partners.

Skills

• Proven ability to act as a trusted business partner, translating financial insights into actionable recommendations that drive revenue and margin growth.
• Expert in building scenarios, conducting variance analyses, and developing KPIs and dashboards.
• Deep understanding of Revenue Growth Management and collaboration with Marketing, Sales, and Supply Chain.
• Leadership skills with a track record of managing and coaching
  - performing teams.
• Experience in designing finance processes, controls, and governance frameworks.
• Outstanding presentation and communication skills; proficiency in Excel, Power
  BI, ERP systems (SAP), and knowledge of Anaplan and TM1 is a plus.
• Fluent in English; proficiency in Portuguese is highly advantageous; Spanish is a plus.

Personal Qualities

• Ability to foster a culture of ‘Belonging’.
• High
  - awareness and reflection.
• People agility to relate and navigate tough situations.
• Results and mental agility to deliver results and think strategically.
• Change agility with a growth mindset.

Leadership Agility

At Bacardi, we value attributes that elevate our 3Fs: Fearless, Family, Founder culture. These include Belonging, Self-Awareness, People and Results agility, Mental and Change agility.

Disclaimer: Bacardi promotes diversity and equal opportunity. We do not tolerate discrimination based on any protected characteristic.

U. S. applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws.

Perks of Working for us

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package including competitive pay, benefits, incentives, allowances, and
- being programs, linked to performance.

• Competitive Pay, Holiday/Paid Time Off, Retirement/Pension Plan

Health & Wellbeing benefits include medical, critical illness, life insurance, and more. Additional benefits vary by region and employment type.