Lead FP&A Analyst - Southern Europe FP&A Team

Job Title: Lead FP&A Analyst - Southern Europe FP&A Team

Location: Budapest

Contract Term: full-time, permanent

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, 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 build shared value.

About the scope
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Tower is part of Global Business Operations and provides oversight on financial activities and controls including general accounting, management and external reporting and financial planning and analysis. The tower is responsible for the interpretation of financial and statutory data, the coordination and management of financial and statutory reporting, the management of the P&L and balance sheet delivering solutions that will increase insight and transparency.

About 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 KPIs)
• 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 complex problems.
• Support delivery of monthly management reporting processes (various BPM reports, landing report, O&R,)
• Prepare and submit Annual Operating Plan and Strategic Plan
• Ensure the completeness of profit center/market figures and continuously supervise 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 accurate, thorough and timely analysis as needs are identified and requested

About you

• Degree educated in relevant finance / accounting/ business
• Financial Planning & Analysis, and/or Financial Controlling experience is strongly preferred
• 4-5 years' experience in relevant area
• Strong accounting experience
• Good accounting knowledge
• Experience in a global FMCG or similar multifaceted 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
• Proficient English knowledge

Benefits of working here

• Unique Family Leave opportunity
• We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world
• You will deal with world class brand portfolio
• Wide variety of thematic events, afterwork activities organized by employee communities
• Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop
• We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym
• Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar

Inclusion & Diversity

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.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.

Character Is Everything