Job Description:
Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life.
LAC Innovation Finance Manager
Purpose
The Innovation Finance Manager is the finance business partner to LAC Innovation Team and to Innovation teams across LAC markets. Responsible for an innovation brand portfolio greater than $200 million across Latin America and the Caribbean.
This role leads the regional Innovation Finance function providing strategic guidelines, analyzing innovation projects from a business standpoint, leading the performance management of the projects and markets, and consolidating the overall ambition for the short-term and long-term plan. Is the finance point of contact for the LAC executive team and supports the innovation BPM for all markets. The primary purpose is to improve and provide guidance on the business outcomes aligned with the region’s ambition and objectives. You will be responsible for providing financial expertise to influence decision making, plan with the Innovation Leadership team (regional and integral) to ensure appropriate prioritization and alignment to business needs and provide transparent financials insights to internal and external partners.
This role reports to the Head of Finance Innovation - LAC and works directly with the LAC Innovation regional team and with the market’s innovation teams and finance managers.
Complexity of role




- High degree of exposure to leadership and cross-functional teams across LAC (both demand and supply) as well as global counterparts (GBT, ISC, Global Finance and Tax).
- Requires cross-functional collaboration to improve business outcomes of Innovation, RGM (Revenue Growth Management), Brand Finance (decision support), Commercial Innovation and Commercial Planning (size of price planning, brand launch activations and execution, promotional strategies), Marketing (A&P; Investment), Supply and Demand Project Leads (COGS management and influence / project spend).
- Key focus on Business Performance Management (BPM)
- Handle the R&D; annual budget to compliantly fund project developments, run future trends research to define the innovation pipeline in the region and other new product requirements at the conceptualization stage.
- Balance multiple priorities, including high volume of projects, business partnering and supporting agenda, broader finance agenda, Innovation Finance continuous improvement and team management.
- Balanced focus between short-term and long-term financial governance, always with a strategic focus by sustainable growth planning and influencing broader Innovation Agenda.
Key outputs
- Innovation Strategy:_
- Strategically planning, partnering with Innovation Leadership team to build/maintain and influence the 3-year rolling plan for LAC innovation.




- Connecting role to ensure Innovation plans are meeting partner needs across the regional Innovation Team and the markets, Supply, Global Innovation, Marketing/Brand Finance.
- Prepare 3-5 year strategic plan and Innovation contributions to be showcased in executive-level presentations.
- In year Innovation execution, planning and forecasting:_
- Oversee financial governance of all innovation, brand change and RGM regional projects, supporting market teams in their decision support efforts.
- Financial influence and consolidation for new projects (Accelerate 360 process), including briefing key regional and market partners.
- Consolidate the latest regional Pipeline and expectations/ambition of Innovation
- Partner with Finance Systems for a more automated financial performance overview. Ensure KPI´s management.
- Budget owner_
- Plan and secure annual Innovation budget for LAC Innovation project R&D; (Research & Development) and T&E; (Travel & Entertainment).
- Handle budget forecasting / outlooks by partnering with budget owners.
- Propose project budget re-allocations where under or overspends are identified in partnership with Innovation Leadership Team.
- Performance Management and Reporting_
- Full control of financial reporting of LAC Innovation in Global Reports.
- Support monthly Innovation BPM´s with markets Innovation teams to oversee current performance and outlook, support and challenge decision making.
- Periodically assess Innovation projects performance vs. expectations and influence action (e.g. partnering with Commercial Finance team to drive remediation action on profitability, or Margin Management team on COGS interventions, or drive A&P; investment Innovations prioritization).
- Assess and complete initiatives such as Vol, NSV and profit enhancement opportun

📌 Finance Manager - Lac Innovation (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Diageo
📍 Ciudad de México