Job Title

Corporate FP&A Manager:

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.

Which company will you join?
From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We're the world's leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It's why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one's talent and personality.

About the role:
To lead and complete the Performance Management agenda through development of a robust quarterly plan, reinforced by a monthly rhythm of processes and analysis to deliver timely information and insight to enable the organization to make high quality decisions which drive peer group leading performance. Develop financial scenarios and recommendations to advise new concept development and portfolio investment prioritization.

About you
We're looking for an individual with a phenomenal balance of hard financial skills and strong leadership behavior. You will need to have full P&L and cash flow understanding, be capable to anticipate and handle risks and opportunities and add new value from financial reporting. Strong eye for business, financial analytical thoroughness and outstanding customer relationships and partner management are required. Handling ambiguity, organization and great interpersonal skills are critically important for the success in this role.

Role Responsibilities:

• End to end execution and engagement of the organization on Planning and Reporting systems, data, processes, operating model, and capabilities that support the delivery of our strategic and operational performance objectives.

• Handle planning process and calendar for the organization, ensuring all internal and external factors are considered in developing a robust plan in service of our strategic ambition that efficiently allocates our resources.

• Lead and complete the standard end to end monthly financial reporting and analysis, working with business partners and customers to deliver the planning and forecasting processes in line with standards and timelines.

• Collaborate with business partners to understand and challenge components of performance and forecasts. Quantify opportunities and risks and help develop contingency plans.

• Hold business partners to account for the delivery of their financial and non-financial commitments.

• Use analytics to go beyond the numbers, using a variety of data sets to drive insights that focus on all opportunities and risks to the delivery of our plans and provoke actions to drive performance improvements.

• Work to drive North America convergence with global standards for Planning and reporting systems, data, processes and operating model.

• Key interactions- In-market leadership teams, Commercial, Supply, Marketing. Act as trusted business advisor in order to challenge and support the business to improve overall performance and develop in-market BPM capabilities.

• Finance business partners - provide proactive support and collaboration on delivery of end-to-end Finance operating model to our clients.

• Group Finance teams / Enterprise operations - collaborate closely with teams to provide high quality, timely management information to the business.

• Governance & Change - support local delivery of changes / improvements. Positive relationships across Business Shared services to drive efficiency and effectiveness in all our core processes

Experience / skills required:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience with relevant professional qualifications
• 5+ experience in a global CPG or similar dynamic operating environment
• Collaborating and influencing effectively with remote/virtual teams

Critical finance capabilities:

• Structured financial analysis to support decision making.
• S&OP and business performance management.
• Understanding of internal controls & accounting principles.
• Adaptable and clear interpersonal skills
• Systems, tools & technologies
• PowerBI, Anaplan, SAP

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.

Diversity statement: (RC)
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.