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 create a career worth celebrating.
About the Function:
Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We're part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.
Whether we're utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future - no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we'll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.
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About the team:
About the role:
Diageo's Shared Service Center plays a crucial role in supporting Diageo's Latin American markets by delivering high-quality financial, operational, and analytical services. By implementing efficient processes and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, our function ensures that markets benefit from streamlined operations and enhanced business insights. This empowers local teams to make informed decisions, driving growth and efficiency. As a center of excellence, it acts as a true business partner, collaborating closely with markets to achieve strategic objectives.
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) is integral to the business operating rhythm, providing insightful data and analysis to drive the long-term sustainable performance of Diageo. A dynamic and integral force within our organization dedicated to driving financial excellence and strategic decision making. Our team plays a pivotal role in shaping the financial future of the company, ensuring that every decision aligns with our overarching business objectives.
The FP&A Sr. Analyst is responsible for precise budget control of the "Trade Spend" investment, delivering timely and accurate reports to budget owners. Acting as a business partner to the commercial finance team, the analyst gains a deep understanding of business performance, providing data-driven insights and ensuring mid-term forecast accuracy while identifying associated risks and opportunities.
Joining Diageo's Shared Service Center means becoming part of a global function where innovation, professional development, and the opportunity to make a real impact are at the forefront.
Role Responsibilities:
- Track and analyze monthly financial performance, understanding main variances between rolling forecasts and actual figures, as well as against yearly plans and previous year's data.
- Participate in the financial cycle, which includes annual operating planning, monthly projections, closing activities, and balance reviews.
- Coordinate and consolidate the monthly forecast with Commercial Finance Team to ensure an accurate and timely report.
- Prepare month-end closing activities, including journal entries, accruals calculation, and customer or brand allocations.
- Ensure proper control and maintenance of internal orders, keeping an adequate budget assigned to each one.
- Prepare and deliver financial reports to business partners, providing high-quality information to aid decision-making and assure proper budget control.
- Keep process documentation updated and accurate.
- Collaborate in local or global projects related to the Trade Investment Process.
- Work closely with the Commercial Finance Team to ensure that trade investment figures are accurately posted in the system and align with external sales and profitability goals.
Key Performance Indicators
- Forecast Accuracy: Maintain control over monthly accuracy of financial forecasts against actual performance, aiming for 97% accuracy.
- Reporting Timeliness and Quality: Ensure timely submission of financial reports and forecasts, meeting all deadlines set within the financial cycle while maintaining high data quality.
- Variance Analysis: Collaborate with Commercial Finance Team to understand variances between actual and forecasted figures, developing the capability to explain any discrepancies.
- Control compliance: Regularly review and monitor compliance with established controls related to the Trade Investment process to prevent failures and ensure accurate financial reporting.
Key Relationships
- Finance Director
- Commercial Finance Team
- Financial Control (FC) and Record to Report (RTR) Teams
- Cross-Functional Teams
- FP&A team members
The Power Skills You Bring
- Planning and forecasting
- Understand the impact of the accounting process and practice.
- Creative thinking
- Analytical thinking
- Understanding and knowledge of relevant finance tools and systems.
- Data literacy
- Detail--oriented, analytical, proactive, and can work under pressure with minimum supervision.
- Communication and storytelling
- Curiosity and lifelong learning
- Motivation and self-awareness
Experience / skills required:
- Education: Degree educated and part qualified - studying for a professional financial qualification.
- Experience: 3 or more years proved experience in a global FMCG or similar dynamic operating environment.
- Language: English Professional working proficiency
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're
supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Rewards & Benefits Statement:
We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:
Diversity statement:
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating 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 welcomed 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, mindsets, 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 new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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