Position title: Senior Analyst - FP&A - Overhead COE
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 relevant role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we build shared value.
Context/Scope:
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Experience Tower is part of Global Business Operations and covers a set of planning, forecasting & analytical activities that support business decisions and help understanding of overall financial health by combining financial, operational and external data in one place. It involves supporting strategic planning, leading Annual Operating Planning (AOP), supporting landing, handling performance analysis, and generating insights on strategic market and regional le vel. Tower responsibilities also include ensuring timely, accurate, standardized reporting combined with beneficial analysis. Fast and sharp insights to understand what factors drive business performance with the aim to devise early warning signals to better anticipate risks and help identify growth opportunities, support quick & accurate decision making and act as excellent business partners to achieve financial goals.
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Leadership Responsibilities
- Build and maintain value driving relationships across the organisation that support business performance. Hold the business partners to account for the delivery of overhead commitments.
- Mobilize resources to help team to mitigate/course correct risks and uses experience and judgement to actively search for opportunities.
- Collaborate with senior management on standard methodologies, O&R, value creation for the team and takes a lead in ensuring that robust processes are in place, policies are followed.
- Guides the team to generate insights into issues quickly, prioritises effectively, develops solutions that drive the business forward and focus on resolving route cause.
- Set the team up for longer term success and work with them in their development areas. Dimensions of the role
- Fully owns delivery of Region's Overhead yearly budget from all aspects
- Handles great variety of senior collaborators including: Market Regional Finance Director, Market Finance Director, FP&A Managers, In market teams, FC, RFC, as well as occasionally working with Group Finance and other Group Functions on overheads.
Purpose of Role
- Lead & handle OH Team to drive efficient and effective overhead business planning, reporting & analyses.
- Provide management leadership & support to ensure excellent service level & quality.
- Helps the team to develop cost reduction strategies, drive cost savings projects and opportunities with budget owners, play the role of thought partner & functional authority.
- Authority on a specific Overhead category and provides recommendations to achieve efficiency targets/goals.
- Lead compliance & controls in the overhead area, ensures the accuracy and compliance through robust application of policies & procedures, in line with internal and external requirements.
- Continuously improving the quality and efficiency of Overheads based on best practices, ensuring that fit-for-purpose standard operating procedures are in place and evolve as business needs change.
- Having a thorough understanding of the business strategy, advise on financial implications of business decision, provides insight, and ensure that financial implications are carefully considered.
- Provide regular communication, drive overhead review conversations with various levels of management.
Top 3-5 Accountabilities
The successful candidate will be expected to take full ownership of the processes and deliverables they are assigned. Including:
- Region 's AOP, O&R ownership and active participation on Monthly Business Performance Management reviews. Work with business in strong partnership to deliver accurate financials.
- Go be yond the numbers using a variety of analytics, data sets to drive insights that focus on opportunities and risks and provoke actions to drive value for the business.
- Regular business updates with senior management
- Develop high performing overhead team
Qualifications and Experience Required
- University / College Degree in finance / business
- Minimum of 8-9 years working and management experience in multinational corporate environment, with successful experience in handling and driving change, experienced people manager
- FP&A, management accounting, Overhead cost controlling & reporting processes
- Fluent English knowledge
- Confirmed ability to impact and influence Effective communication Challenges the as is Leadership Skills
Leadership Skills
Be Authentic:
Stands for what is right and important and does what they say without exception, demonstrating the kind of integrity that inspires others. Builds and sustains trust through real relationships, challenging effectively wherever vital.
Constantly Deliver Great Performance:
Finds solutions, influences delivery of results for the business, chips in to shaping the future of the business and inspires others to deliver the strategy. Moves effectively between strategy and operational detail, judging when or where to intervene. Knows and is responsive to external influences on the business and ensure controls are in place to guarantee Diageo's performance and reputation.
Create conditions for people to succeed:
Builds' alignment; committed to outstanding collaboration, consistently sets the standard. Provides the context for others to own the outcome, provides the context for the people to think, decide, act.
Barriers to Success in Role
- Lack of Finance/accounting knowledge / qualification
- Unable to maintain a robust financial control environment, ensuring compliance with all regulatory and internal control requirements.
- Lack of ability to drive continuous improvement and change whilst and bringing people with them on the journey and continuing to be delivering baseline performance; Unable to think innovatively and find solutions to sophisticated problems.
- Unable to understand business issues.
- Unable to build great relationships, poor interpersonal skills and lack of professional maturity, unable to challenges others with ensuring we are doing the "right thing" for the business at all times.
- Unwilling to take ownership for issue resolution and driving tasks to completion.
- Lack of ability to handling priorities, making evaluated decisions
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.