FP&A Senior Finance Analyst - US Spirits

About Us:

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. 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 build a career worth celebrating.

Which company will you join?

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 team:

About the role:

The Financial Planning & Analysis job family is accountable for driving Diageo’s end-to-end business performance management cycle. These roles set the rhythm and expected inputs and outputs of performance management, in line with standard global BPM processes and ensure that the BPM cycle is supported by high quality performance information and insights to enable timely course corrections. They also ensure a continued focus on continual improvements to processes, systems and data.

Purpose of the role:

To lead and complete the Performance Management agenda through development of a robust quarterly plan, reinforced by a monthly rhythm of processes and analysis to deliver timely information and insight to enable the organization to make high quality decisions which drive peer group leading performance. This role supports the business in setting and realizing its performance ambition and AOP with a particular focus on the Dynamic value creator area of the Finance Mission:

• Bring data-led insights – creating winning strategies and provoking phenomenal business outcomes
• Embrace a winning mentality – having the courage to act
• Look outwards – always adopting an external lens
• Lead and embrace change – bringing value and shaping our future
• Active risk managers – guiding smart business decisions

Role Responsibilities:

• End to end execution and engagement of the organization on Planning and Reporting systems, data, processes, operating model, and capabilities that support the delivery of our strategic and operational performance objectives.
• Drive, run and co-ordinate the standard end to end monthly BPM processes and analysis. Work with business partners and collaborators to deliver the planning and forecasting processes in line with standards and timelines
• Track and report on business performance measurements and drive accountability through monthly performance reviews
• Collaborate cross functionally to monitor financial risks and opportunities and advise partners accordingly during key close periods
• Use analytics to go beyond the numbers, using a variety of data sets to drive insights that focus on all opportunities and risks to the delivery of our plans and provoke actions to drive performance improvements.
• Translate financial data into business narratives to support decision-making
• Contribute to standardization and automation initiatives within FP&A

Experience/skills required:

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Finance /Accounting or business
• Accounting designation (CPA/ CMA) or at minimum candidate is working towards it
• 3+ years’ financial analysis & reporting experience with some experience supporting commercial business partners preferably in a consumer goods environment
• Existing capability to build genuine relationships built on mutual trust & respect
• Collaborating and influencing optimally with remote/virtual teams
• Comfort with dealing with ambiguity, complexity and working within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and matrixed environment
• Deep personal accountability for great performance
• Strong commercial and numerical competence with attention to detail
• Intermediate/advanced excel, BPM (or Equivalent), CRM (advantage or similar) system knowledge.
• Demonstrate you have mastered the basics in Financial Analysis.

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And crafting 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 encouraged 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, mentalities, 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 the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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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.