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Lead Analyst Overheads - Financial Planning & Operations
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📊 Market 800,000 GBP–1,200,000 GBP/mo (9,600,000 GBP–14,400,000 GBP/yr)
About the Company
Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands across spirits and beer categories. It operates in more than 180 countries and produces in more than 140 sites around the world. Some of the key brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Smirnoff, Don Julio, Tanqueray, Ketel One, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Guinness. The Financial Planning & Operations team is part of Global Finance and is responsible for planning, forecasting, and analytical activities that support business decision-making and provide a comprehensive view of the company's financial health by bringing together financial, operational, and external data. The team supports strategic planning, leads the annual planning cycle and monthly forecasting processes, and generates market- and regional-level insights to understand the key drivers of business performance.
About the Role
The role involves partnering with Finance, functional, and market stakeholders to understand business requirements, resolve complex planning issues, strengthen planning effectiveness, and enable high-quality business decision-making, as well as driving planning improvements and monitoring planning performance.
Responsibilities
- ● Partner with Finance, functional, and market stakeholders to understand business requirements, resolve complex planning issues, strengthen planning effectiveness, and enable high-quality business decision-making.
- ● Drive planning improvements in execution, systems enhancements, and analytical initiatives that improve planning effectiveness, operational efficiency, and user experience.
- ● Monitor planning performance, find opportunities for process optimization, standardization, and continuous improvement.
- ● Contribute planning expertise to cross-functional projects and transformation initiatives, supporting the adoption of global planning processes, solutions, and guidelines across the organization.
- ● Lead the delivery and continuous improvement of global financial planning processes across assigned markets and regions, ensuring planning activities are executed consistently, efficiently, and in line with global standards, governance requirements, and planning calendars.
Requirements
- ● Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related discipline.
- ● 4-6 years of relevant Finance experience, with exposure to FP&A, financial planning, forecasting, or business performance management.
- ● Good understanding of financial planning processes and finance systems.
- ● Experience supporting improvement in execution, standardization, or transformation initiatives.
- ● Strong analytical, communication, and collaborator management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively.
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