Financial Planning Analyst

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.

The FP&A Analyst ensures precise budget control of the “Advertising and Promotion” investment, providing timely and accurate reports to the budget owners. Works as a business partner of the marketing team by fully understanding business performance, with data-driven advice and mid-term forecast accuracy.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the Marketing Team to support strategic aims and targets, ensuring alignment between marketing initiatives and financial objectives.
• Analyze monthly financial performance, understanding key variances between rolling forecasts, actual figures, yearly plans, and previous years.
• Engage in the financial cycle, including the annual operating plan, monthly projections, closing activities, and balance reviews.
• Prepare and execute month-end closing activities, including journal entries, accrual calculations, and brand allocations.
• Coordinate and consolidate the monthly forecast with all budget owners, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in reporting.
• Maintain control over internal orders, ensuring adequate budgets are assigned and properly managed.
• Prepare and deliver comprehensive financial reports to business partners, providing high-quality information to support decision-making and ensure proper budget control.
• Keep process documentation up to date and accurate to reflect any changes in procedures or systems.
• Contribute to local or global projects related to the A&P process, ensuring alignment with financial objectives and best practices.

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 budget owners 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 A&P process to prevent failures and ensure accurate financial reporting.

Key Relationships

• Marketing Team (Marketing director & budget owners)
• Sales Team (Budget owners)
• Finance Director
• Consumer Finance and Finance Partners.
• FP&A Team Members
• Cross-functional teams

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

Requirements

• Education: Degree educated and part qualified - studying for a professional financial qualification.

• Experience: 2 or more years proved experience in a global FMCG or similar dynamic operating environment. 
• Language: English Professional working proficiency
• Language: Portuguese highly desirable

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:

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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