Job Description :

Job Title: Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

About the Function:
Our Global Business Operations (GBO) team are facilitators, providing strategic, financial, and business services that are essential to the day-to-day performance of our business. With a team of over 2,000 dedicated and hard-working people supporting 21 markets across the world, we have offices in Bangalore, Budapest, Bogota, and Manila.

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 encouraging culture.

About the team: TE

About the role:
The FP&A Manager is an individual contributor involved in extensive financial analytics and bringing insight to the data from different business dimensions, as required on time to time basis. The FP&A Manager may also need to lead a team provide functional leadership guidance & support to achieve required business objectives.

Regular engagement with FP&A Directors, Commercial Finance Director, SVP and CFO and other Senior Leaders of the organization will be an integral part of this role.

Market Complexity:

The FP&A Finance team is responsible for supporting the Regional Diageo businesses, including Spirits, Wine, Beer, Supply and Corporate functions. FP&A liaises with the various business finance and management teams to prepare our annual operating plan as well as forecasts through-out the fiscal year.
Business Performance Management (BPM) for Diageo is the holistic/ E2E process that incorporates and leverages all functions to deliver our ambition. This includes our Commercial / sales teams, Supply, Marketing, Net Revenue Management/ Pricing, HR and Finance.

The purpose of this FP&A role is to support delivery of the BPM reporting agenda for different regions.

You will be expected to lead the conversations with the markets across a number of areas. You will work with a variety of senior collaborators and their teams in market/function to see opportunities to drive business outcomes.

You would be responsible for generating insightful analytical reports and recommendations to further enhance performance and/ or risks to performanceSupporting the respective BPM cycle owner with the production of all reports (standard & non-standard) aligned to each unit(s).Provide ad-hoc reporting & decision support for the business divisions as required

Behavioural Skills (Soft Skills)

Strong verbal communication showing comfort in elaborating on ideasCreate conversation with senior leaders ( CFO,SVP, FP&A Directors, Commercial Finance Director) with data reference and identify vital analytical requirementsConfidence, clarity of thoughtsAmbition to take on new responsibilities to develop capability furtherComfort in ambiguity; Read the data, understands the data and interpreat information hidden in the dataBeing Purposefully curious, ask lots of question to have enough information and ability to filter the information fit to the purpose

Leadership Qualities

Agile enough to explore all possible sources for investigationAbility to influence senior collaborators to get the right informationUnderstanding of commercial impact of decisionsAttitude of winning and bringing closure to any issueDevelop talent and back-up planningInspire the team sighting the big picture and establish team’s work with that

Role Responsibilities:
 

Play a key role in the preparation and submission of Annual Operating Plan and Strategic Plan including supporting the OH planning, COGS Standard Reset process and overall consolidation.Responsible for producing decks for communication of management information to Exec & other senior mgmt.Act as FP&A collaborate with a businessAbility to create sophisticated excel financial modelAbility to calculate VPMC, Brand Mix analysisAbility to work on NSV Bridge and GM% BridgeAct as the contact point for Investor Relations and GroupDeliver monthly management reporting processes (WD5 scorecards, brand performance summaries)Provide accurate, thorough and timely analysis as needs are identified or requested. Rapid and accurate turn-around required for ad hoc queries.Develop a good working relationship with Regional Finance, Businesses, DBSC and Brand teams in order to conduct business matters smoothly as well as make improvements in business processes where applicable.Have an excellent understanding of BW, SAP and Micro-strategy, PowerBI solution with the ability to think broadly when a system related challenge occurs and extract data in a way that supports decision makingBe resident system expert in finance (BFC, BPM, Oneplan, VA)

Experience / skills required:

CA/CMA/MBA (Tier 2 schools), bachelor’s in finance/Marketing/Business Required10-12 years of experience in handling FP&A, Commercial Finance

Language skills

Good Business English, able to communicate effectively

Functional Skills

Superior analytical and planning skills.Strong FP&A background, good understand of financial foundations (P&L and Cash flow)Strong and extensive Excel, Power Point and broad business knowledge. Superior PC modeling skills.Strong understanding of financial systems, data processing and sophisticated analyticsExcellent written and oral communication skills.Strong strategic ability to understand / craft the story for DNA performance.Ability to work cross-functionally.Strong organizational skills to plan and complete projects

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.

Rewards & Benefits Statement: TE

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, approaches, 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.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Bangalore Karle Town SEZ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-01-27