Assistant Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

About us

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, Gordons, and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform, and how we create shared value.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted, and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world's very best people.

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

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Partner with In-market Finance team and FC team
• Partnering with business divisions and functions to drive business performance through the provision of financial / commercial expertise and insights, whilst supporting the delivery of the financial targets and an effective control environment.
• Partner to the senior collaborators, building great relationships, supporting them with accurate and timely reporting, respond to adhoc requests to ensure robust strategic planning
• Support the FP&A team by providing insightful, user friendly information to support business conversations
• Ensure that the policies and procedures are understood and followed in the team and in the market as well

Purpose of the Role:

• Act as the finance business partner of the respective business unit(s) (Day to day financial management of the P&L/BS/Cash, drive financial performance, operational metrics)
• Generate insights for the business unit(s)'s leaders by pointing out inefficiencies and highlighting further efficiency opportunities
• Support delivering timely information and insights, forecasting
• Resolve sophisticated problems

Accountabilities:

• Support delivery of monthly management reporting processes (various BPM reports, landing report, O&R, Extended WC and cash flow reporting and forecasting,) also prepare deck for the related review meetings
• Prepare and submit Annual Operating Plan and Strategic Plan
• Ensure the completeness of profit center/market figures and continuously monitor the respective P&L accounts for any inconsistencies
• Create accurate forecasts based on identified trends in the actuals and information collected from the partners
• Support finance processes where business judgement is needed, provide accureate, thorough and timely analysis as needs are identified and requsted

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience educated in relevant finance / accounting/ business
• Financial Planning & Analysis, and/or Financial Controlling experience is strongly preferred
• 5 years experience in relevant area
• Strong accounting experience
• Good accounting knowledge
• Experience in a global FMCG or similar dynamic operating environment
• Experience in a Shared services environment is considered as an advantage
• Have an excellent understanding of BW, SAP, PowerBI solution with the ability to think broadly when a system related challenge occurs and extract data in a way that supports decision making
• Fluent English knowledge

Diversity statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of "celebrating life every day everywhere". This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Character Is Everything

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