FP&A Governance SME - Secondment for 6 months

Job Title: FP&A Governance SME - Secondment for 6 months

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Contract Term: Full-time or Part-time, Secondment for 6 months

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 create shared value.

Your Impact
As an FP&A Process SME, you'll play a key role in optimizing our Financial Planning & Analysis processes, ensuring Diageo's financial operations stay at the forefront of standard processes. Supporting the FP&A Global Process Excellence Lead, you'll work closely with senior finance leaders, advising on strategic decisions, and driving significant changes across our global finance teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive Automation: Identify and lead initiatives to eliminate manual journals and automate processes. You'll be instrumental in minimizing inefficiencies, ensuring smoother and faster reporting across regions.
• Change Management: Collaborate with Market Finance Directors and other partners to communicate and implement process changes. You'll provide crucial training, ensuring alignment and support.
• Strategic Analysis: Conduct thorough impact analyses on proposed changes, ensuring feasibility across markets and identifying alternatives where vital
• Process Documentation: Build clear, detailed process documentation, ensuring new workflows are fully understood and seamlessly integrated into team routines
• Weekly Updates: Keep the project team advised with regular progress reports, making sure all stakeholders stay aligned and connected.

What You'll Bring:

• Education & Expertise: Master's or Bachelor's degree in finance or business, with a deep understanding of FP&A processes
• Analytical Skills: Strong ability to interpret sophisticated data, derive insights, and communicate these optimally to various partners
• Stakeholder Management: You're skilled at building alliances and gaining support for strategic changes, especially within finance and cross-functional teams
• Adaptability & Initiative: A flexible, self-motivated professional who can thrive in a dynamic environment and becomes comfortable with shifting priorities

Why Join Us?

• Collaborative Culture: Be part of an encouraging, global team that values your insights and fosters an inclusive environment.
• Career Impact: This role is an outstanding chance to create a substantial impact on Diageo's global financial operations, helping us remain agile, efficient, and future-ready.

If you're ready to drive significant change in a global setting and grow within a respected organization, we'd love to hear from you.

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