Job - FP&A Lead

About Diageo

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 build shared value. 

The area

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Experience Area is part of Global Business Operations (GBO) and provides oversight on financial activities and controls including general accounting, management and external reporting and financial planning and analysis.

The Experience Area’s 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.

The Experience Area responsibilities also include ensuring there is a true and fair representation of business performance at the cut-off point for the period and transparency on financials for Business Performance Management.

As part of our ongoing talent pipelining strategy, we are seeking to connect with high-potential professionals for future opportunities. This role is crafted to build a strong network of candidates who can be considered as new positions become available.

The role

• Work closely with the regional leadership teams across businesses, markets, and functions on the overall financial management of the region

• Develop and own the region wide annual budgeting and forecasting processes

• Evaluate business and reporting processes to drive efficiencies; drive continuous improvement initiatives and share standard processes

• Lead region wide reporting processes including monthly forecast, executive presentations, business reviews and general reporting communications including analysis of key performance indicators, trends, and areas of concern

• Perform quality reviews and analyses of financial results and forecasts

• Shape decision making process across the business and long-term strategy conversation.

• Lead FP&A team including holding regular FP&A meetings to update the team on performance, projects, finance systems

• Provide ongoing direction and constructive feedback to FP&A team members to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of support services to market and regional leadership

• Establish FP&A team objectives to align with company goals and evaluate performance against established critical metrics

About you

• Degree in finance / accounting/ business administration

• Extensive (10–12+ years) track record in FP&A, Financial Performance & Analysis, and Financial Controlling across global FMCG/CPG, Pharma, or Retail sectors

• Experience in managing and mentoring with a team of colleagues

• Can effectively delegate, mentor, and leverage resources

• Lead by example, demonstrates strong work ethic, has initiative and is a self-starter demeanor

• Skilled in conflict resolution and problem solving, a creative problem solver

• Proficient in English

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