Supply Finance Manager, Plainfield

Job Description :

About us:

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we create brands consumers love. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate and innovate. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray, and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one’s talent and personality.

About the Function:

Finance at Diageo is about more than the numbers, it’s about shaping the decisions behind them.

From guiding investment to unlocking growth, this team plays a critical role in how we perform today and how we plan for tomorrow. You’ll work with data, insight and digital tools to influence strategy and help drive a business that operates at global scale.

It’s a fast-moving environment where no two days are the same, and where you’ll be supported to build your skills, grow your career and make a real impact.

Which Finance organization will you join?

Working in Finance at Diageo, you will be a disruptor, as you will challenge your business partners, a value creator, as you will understand strategic growth drivers and an expert, as you will maintain financial stewardship and accountability. By doing so, you will grow and develop your career across a variety of roles.

About the role:

This role reports to the Finance Director, Supply Operation and is based out of Plainfield, Illinois. The operations at the site includes processing and bottling of Diageo brands.

As Finance Manager, your role will be to:

• Lead the financial reporting, accounting, and analysis of the financial performance of the manufacturing operation at the sites.

• Lead the development of the annual operating plans (AOP), latest estimates (LE) and delivery of financial results.

• Partner the development and implementation of strategic initiatives.

• Drive performance and decision-making process by providing financial support and leadership.

• Identify performance enhancement opportunities and work with the site leadership to execute them.

• Maintain a strong internal control & compliance environment.

• Simplify reporting and decision-making processes by leveraging digital tools.

• Identify and pro-actively manage risks and opportunities and provide performance insights.

The role will:

• Partner with the leadership of the manufacturing sites under your remit.

• Work with the Business Shared Services for timely and accurately closing the Books and performing various financial analysis.

• Effectively collaborate across the finance community (Tax, Insurance, Supply, FP&A, etc.).

• Business partner with other Supply organizations including Planning, Blending, Technical, Procurement etc., and coordinate the flow of information between multiple levels of management.

What will you need to succeed in this role?

• Solid end-to-end supply chain and cost accounting understanding.

• Ability to effectively business partner and communicate across supply and finance and managing multiple stakeholders.

• Financial analysis skills, including ability to manage complex data for decision support, reporting and financial planning.

• Strong stewardship mindset.

• Self-driven, working independently.

Experience / skills required:

• 5+ years of financial management and accounting experience, preferably within a manufacturing consumer goods environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting is required; a professional accounting designation or MBA is preferred.

• Excellent leadership, analytical and planning skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Strong technical accounting, planning, analysis, reporting and systems expertise. SAP knowledge a plus.

• Proven ability to distill complex business issues, provide logical, compelling, and clear plans for action.

• Requires excellent leadership and networking skills and ability to lead and influence organizational changes.

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Plainfield Plant

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-06-01

PLAINFIELD, ILLINOIS: SALARY RANGE IS FROM $100,800 TO $168,000 (ANNUAL)

At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 29,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

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