Finance Manager - Customer Marketing

Job Title: Finance Manager – Customer Marketing

Location: Hybrid – with weekly travel to our head office in Hemel Hempstead

Job Length: Permanent – Full Time

Competitive Salary with extensive benefits:

• Monthly product allowance – alcoholic & non-alcoholic options available
• Private Medical options
• Life Assurance
• Company bonus scheme
• Access to 24/7 GP services
• Enhanced pension contribution
• Generous holiday (inc bank holidays)
• Access to a range of high street discounts

Carlsberg Britvic is the largest multi-beverage supplier in the UK and is home to some of the most iconic and popular beers & soft drinks, including Carlsberg Danish Pilsner, 1664, Poretti and Brooklyn to ale favourites such as Hobgoblin and Wainwright. For soft drinks, Carlsberg Britvic’s brands include J2O, Robinsons, Tango and London Essence along with the licence rights to the Pepsi portfolio in the UK including Pepsi MAX, 7UP, poppi, Lipton Iced Tea and Rockstar Energy.

With a strong national footprint, the Carlsberg Britvic business includes 5 production facilities and 16 logistics depot’s servicing customers up and down the UK.  As the Dynamic, Multi-Beverage Powerhouse, we are united by a single, consistent goal: ensuring our people thrive.

About the role:

We are now recruiting for a Finance Manager – Customer Marketing. Playing a key role for the Customer Marketing team, enhancing their return on investment, delivering insight and value, ensuring sound financial governance across the area.

Role Responsibilities:

• Partner with Customer Marketing and Brand teams to improve financial control, maximise ROI, and improve commercial decision-making.
• Identify financial risks and opportunities early, providing insight and recommendations to optimise business performance.
• Manage forecasting and budgeting activities, building robust plans with clear assumptions and risk & opportunity management.
• Deliver timely, impactful reporting and dashboards that provide clear visibility of performance and support action-oriented decisions.
• Engage stakeholders constructively to align immediate delivery needs with long-term value creation.
• Enhance financial governance across customer marketing investments, ensuring effective controls and compliance.
• Improve continuous improvement by simplifying processes, systems, and reporting, enhancing efficiency and insight across the function.
• Support integration initiatives and wider finance projects, helping embed best practice and consistency across the business.
• Ensure finance processes are documented, understood, and embedded to support effective ways of working.

Experience and Key Attributes:

• Professionally qualified accountant (CIMA, although other recognised financial qualifications will be considered)
• Advanced analytical and financial modeling skills, with the ability to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights
• Commercially minded, with a strategic outlook and an understanding of how finance drives business performance
• Motivated and results-focused, with the initiative to identify opportunities and see projects through to completion
• Solid stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across all levels of the business
• Pragmatic problem-solver, comfortable navigating ambiguity and handling complex challenges
• FMCG experience within a manufacturer or retailer environment

Our commitment to diversity equity & inclusion

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences - including those of different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, religions, and socioeconomic statuses. We actively seek to create a safe and inclusive environment for all of our colleagues, where diverse perspectives are welcomed, and inclusive practices are embedded in everything we do.

 We are happy to support accessibility needs, to ensure a fair and equitable experience for all candidates, so please do let us know if you require any adjustments during the recruitment process.

Application Process:

We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled anytime, so please apply as early as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application.

This is an exciting time to join our newly formed business – with their incredible individual history’s, innovation of products and some of the UK’s most iconic brands, Carlsberg Britvic strives to deliver the best service to our customers and consumers. We aim to make a difference, bringing together two diverse companies, our global reach enables opportunity, growth and a chance to work with some fantastic people.