About the position:

1. Assist in month end close tasks ensuring clean, accurate and reliable transactional details in the general ledger with appropriate audit trail documentation

2. Develop finance-business partnering relationships with France operational teams, such as logistics, winery and vineyard operations, services including capital and asset planning

3. Provide monthly analysis of financial performance, tying financial results to operational actions. Report information to the appropriate level of detail for the intended audience (ranging from tactical to Group summaries) and capturing financial risks and opportunities

4. Assist in coordinating and consolidating monthly IBP forecasts, including critically evaluating inputs provided by operational teams and following process guidance from Group finance teams

5. With business partners, assist identification and analysis of business improvement opportunities, including those linked to capital projects

6. Assist in coordinating and delivering budgets, forecasts and strategic plans in accordance with timetables and Group guidance. This covers both P&L and balance sheet

7. Support and work with other finance team to deliver outputs, specifically: Treasury Business Services for month end close and balance sheet reconciliations, capex and asset processes, accounts payable

8. Ensuring various planning and reporting tools as issued by Group and Central Supply FP&A are adhered to and that our PBCS planning system is loaded to accurately reflect financial plans

9. Assist with inventory reporting such as Current/Non-Current splits, including commentary

10. Preparation of balance sheet reconciliations, as directed

11. Preparing commentary and analysis, as required, for quarterly balance sheet review (QBSR) using Group/Corporate schedules/templates

12. Support inventory costing processes: manufacturing (work order) accounting and variance analysis, standard cost rates calculation, product costing in conjunction with Global Costing policies and processes, vintage costing, etc

13. Respond in a timely manner to queries from internal and external audit and Group finance teams

14. Ensure issues and risks, whether financial or controls / governance, are escalated

About you:

1. Bachelor’s degree (BS/BBA) in Business, Accounting, Finance, Business Economics, or a related analytical discipline

2. Minimum of 3 years post qualification experience

3. Analytical experience, accounting experience (GL)

4. Strong Excel spreadsheet skills

5. English language (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) self-assessed level B2 or higher)