Lead FP&A Analyst - GB market

Job title: Lead FP&A Analyst - GB market

Contract type: 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 a meaningful role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we build shared value.

The Team

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.

This specific role is supporting Diageo Great Britain, the biggest market in Europe with circa £1bn NSV per year. The lead analyst will support the monthly BPM cycle including landing, month end close and forecast activities and with that will be involved in the full P&L evolution of GB. Besides the monthly activities, responsibilities also include the ownership of stock-in-trade reporting and analysis through which the individual can gain direct exposure to senior partners of the business, such as the Finance Director, the Head of Commercial Finance and Financial Controller of GB.

We are looking for a talent who would like to build an outstanding career in finance and are willing to grow and invest in their developments.

The role

• Partner with In-market Finance team and FP&A team
• Prepare and submit Annual Operating Plan and Strategic Plan
• Build accurate forecasts based on identified trends in the actuals and information collected from the partners
• Day to day financial management of the P&L/BS/Cash, drive financial performance, operational KPIs)
• Partner 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 partners, building phenomenal relationships, supporting them with accurate and timely reporting, respond to ad hoc requests to ensure robust strategic planning
• 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
• Ensure the completeness of profit center/market figures and continuously supervise the respective P&L accounts for any inconsistencies
• Support finance processes where business judgement is needed, provide accurate, detailed, and timely analysis as needs are identified and requested
• Generate insights for the business unit(s)'s leaders by pointing out inefficiencies and highlighting further efficiency opportunities
• Support the FP&A team by providing insightful, user-friendly information to support business conversations
• Resolve complex problems

About you

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance / Accounting/ Business Administration
• 4-5 years' experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, and/or Financial Controlling
• Strong accounting experience
• Good accounting knowledge
• Experience in a global FMCG or shared services environment is considered as an advantage
• Have a good 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 in English knowledge

Benefits of working here

• Outstanding 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 outstanding 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