Global Tech - Finance Proximity Executive (Africa & Middle East)

Meet Pernod Ricard and experience Our Convivial Spirit

Ready to join Pernod Ricard, the world’s the #1 premium spirits organization with the industry’s most comprehensive and diversified portfolio of premium brands including 18 of the world’s top 100 spirits brands? As Créateurs de Convivialité, our purpose is to inspire authentic moments of sharing through our iconic brands, including Absolut Vodka, Jameson Irish Whiskey, and Martell Cognac, sold in over 160 countries. “Conviviality” is our secret ingredient, poured into everything we do, and rooted in every one of us who works here. Collective spirit drives our success, empowering you to craft your path and bring your authentic self to every occasion.

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ABOUT THE TECH TEAM

Our global Tech team operates in an agile manner within a dynamic product organization. Immerse yourself in a collaborative environment where innovation thrives, and your contributions will play a direct role in shaping the path of our cutting-edge products. As a key player in our agile setup, you'll have the opportunity to enhance efficiency, foster creativity, and play a pivotal role in our product development process. Become part of a team that embraces adaptability and values continuous improvement, ensuring we stay at the forefront of global technology advancements.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

The Global Tech Proximity Finance Executive AME will drive the alignment of finance operations with technology to enhance efficiency and support Pernod Ricard's strategic goals.

THE TEAM YOU WILL WORK WITH

• The Finance Proximity Executive will ensure demand, testing, change, adoption and ultimately value creation of the Tech Finance Product portfolio.

• They will also support the local and legacy applications until their migration to the target Product landscape. They will report to the Domain Proximity Lead to share value and adoption metrics – and collaborate with other domains Proximity team members to ensure consistency.

• They will finally participate in the end-to-end management of demands in their functional area coming from the business and Tech, support the consolidation, assessment and prioritization of demands with the relevant stakeholders.

WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YOU

The role involves collecting local insights and feedback on products, conducting change management activities, ensuring the secure deployment of global products in Affiliates, and facilitating the engagement of local Key User communities.

• Capturing affiliates needs and specificities on a specific product domain: Conduct interviews and surveys with affiliates to understand their requirements within my specific product domain and arbitrate/challenge their claims and analyze affiliate data and feedback so tailored solutions that address their specific needs and align with the product's offerings can be considered by Product teams

• Incident Management: Act as the liaison between the Business and the incident support team within the ME, provide functional skills to qualify incidents and orient them to the right capability teams

• Performing roll-out and change management actions for global products of their domain scope: Gather insights and user feedback to enhance product functionality and user experience, prepare relevant change plan & activities and perform local change impact assessment and change activities to ease local adoption of global products, support test activities with end users and perform defined required roll-out activities

• Value Realization: Collect & consolidate relevant metrics/insights to report on value delivered from Products at affiliate level

QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Industrial, Computer, Software, Business Engineering, MIS or a related field is required.

Experience: 7 years of Tech experience, preferably with companies in the FMCG sector (Food/Beverage/Tobacco industry experience preferred)

Capabilities:

• Good knowledge in the Finance domain scope, with a deep understanding of challenges in the Finance for their geographical scope

• Experience in SAP S4/ Hana, FI, CO, SD, MM

• Experience in ERP Software Oracle JD Edwards is a plus

• Good knowledge of cross function interactions in SAP and Reporting Systems such as Power BI.

• Good knowledge of E- Solutions such as e-invoice, e-delivery note etc.

• Mastery of testing and deployment methods and tools

• Understanding of agile principles and associated ways of working

• Mastery in Project Management

• Having of ITIL or COBIT certification is a plus

• Having a project management certification, Agile, PMP etc

• Collaboration& team spirit

• Fluency in English

What We Offer (Please ensure that the 'What We Offer' section is adapted to reflect local benefits, policies, and practices as applicable.)

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being and career growth.

• Opportunities for international exposure and collaboration across diverse teams and markets.

• A vibrant, inclusive culture that fosters professional development and celebrates individuality.

Joining and contributing to an Inclusive workplace

As Créateurs de Convivialité, we are committed to better reflect the richness of our society, the marketplace, and communities in which we operate. We believe that it is the best way to build effective teams, understand our consumers by market and sustainably grow our business.

Pernod Ricard is part of Forbes World’s Best Employers and has been recognized by Equileap among the top 100 Employers for Gender Equality. As a skills-based organization, we ensure fair processes and equal opportunities for all candidates and team members by assessing your skills against role expectations. We recognize that some of you might need extra support with your application, require accommodations or special arrangements for your interview, if this is the case, please contact us, we would be delighted to support you and welcome your application.

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2026-01-31

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