Job - Japan FP&A Senior Operations Lead

​About Diageo

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 insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function

Our Global Business Operations (GBO) team are facilitators, providing strategic, financial, and business services that are critical to the day-to-day performance of our business, with a team of over 2,000 dedicated and passionate people supporting 21 markets across the world.

Our global remit offers huge learning opportunities. We encourage learning and development in skills needed now and in the future across digital, industry, professional, and domain. Wherever you start, you’ll be rewarded with a world view and the recognition you deserve in our inclusive and supportive culture.

About the Team

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Experience 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 level.

Leadership Responsibilities:

The FP&A Senior Manager is a member of the senior LT with dedicated responsibilities around organizational effectiveness and transformation agenda, capability building and people development.

Regardless of role location the FP&A Senior Manager is required to lead, coordinate, coach people both in an immediate team, as well as across the related teams in FP&A tower and in-market when it comes to all aspects of financial performance matters.

Purpose of the role:

To ensure management and execution of the Performance management agenda through development of a robust annual plan, reinforced by a monthly rhythm of processes and analysis to deliver timely information and insight, forecasting and to enable the organization to make high quality decisions which drive peer group leading performance.

Top Accountabilities

• Drives the monthly BPM cycle and Landing and O&R reviews.   Responsible for the management of cash flow and extended working capital requirements, processes.
• Develop an efficient and effective planning process for the organisation, ensuring all internal and external factors are considered in developing a robust plan in service of our strategic ambition that effectively allocates our global resources. Work with business partners and stakeholders to deliver the planning process in line with standards and timelines.
• Focus the Business Unit Leadership team on the interventions required to keep performance on track and ensure that the process supporting the BPM cycle is robust and delivers the right information each month in a timely and fit for purpose manner.
• Lead the evolution of data and reporting foundations to provide robust, timely, and fit-for-purpose measurement and insight generation in support of performance management, including production and maintenance of dashboards.
• Leverage AI and automation tools to streamline reporting and analytics
• Continually aim for best practice and develop a culture for innovation and continuous improvement in service of continued efficiency and effectiveness.
• Able to influence the decision-making process and support themid-term strategy conversation

Qualification and Experience Required

• Degree educated in relevant finance / accounting/ business.
• Proven experience(12 + years) management in financial accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis is required. Cash Forecasting and performance management and/or Financial Controlling experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience working in Supply Chain/Operations well preferred.
• Tools : Microsoft 365, PowerBI, Automation, sophisticated Excel Skills
• Experience in a global FMCG or similar multifaceted operating environment
• Fluency in English and Japanese language required.

Commercial Acumen: Understand the whole business operation in detail and can see connections across departments to see the big picture. Aware of competitors for existing core business. Recognizes key trends and industry characteristics.

Influencing:  Establish relationships with teams across business units and markets. Proven ability to impact and influence, at a senior collaborator level, virtually across markets with solid networking, influencing & communication skills.

Effective Communication: Construct short story lines, adapt documents and presentations for the intended audience (complexity, detail, altitude). Presents material in a clear confident manner & leads non-verbal communication, in service to message.

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you and we’ll work together so that you’re supported from day one.

Rewards & Benefits

At Diageo, we offer a competitive and thoughtfully designed rewards package that supports your ambitions, wellbeing, and lifestyle:

Competitive Compensation

• Attractive annual base salary aligned with market benchmarks
• Work-from-home (WFH) allowance to support flexible working
• Performance-based Annual Incentive Plan

Lifestyle & Everyday Benefits

• Product allowance so you can experience and enjoy our portfolio of brands
• Transportation support through reimbursement of commuting expenses

Health, Protection & Wellbeing

• Comprehensive insurance coverage, including term life protection
• Annual health check-up to help you stay at your best
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program offering confidential support for you and your family

Work-Life Balance

• Generous paid annual leave to recharge and maintain a healthy balance

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 the next level 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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Recruitment Scam Warning

Protecting candidates is very important to us. All communications regarding your application will come from an email address ending in @diageo.com. In our recruitment process, we’ll never ask for money.

If you have any questions, please reach out to your Talent Engagement Lead, John Cedrique Rimonte, at JohnCedrique.Rimonte@Diageo.com