FP&A Manager, US Spirits

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 build 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 team:

The Financial Planning & Analysis job family is accountable for driving Diageo's end-to-end business performance management cycle. These roles set the rhythm and expected inputs and outputs of performance management, in line with standard global BPM processes and ensure that the BPM cycle is supported by high quality performance information and insights to enable timely course corrections. They also ensure a continued focus on continual improvements to processes, systems and data.

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.

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.
• Develop an efficient and effective 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 effectively allocates our resources.
• Drive, run and co-ordinate the standard end to end monthly BPM processes and analysis. Work with business partners and collaborators 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 NA convergence with global standards for Planning and reporting systems, data, processes and operating model.

• 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 the business divisions.
• 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

• Bachelors Degree with relevant professional qualifications
• 5+ years of experience in a global FMCG or similar dynamic operating environment
• Collaborating and influencing successfully with remote/virtual teams
• Support decision making
• Business performance management
• Presentation to senior leadership and other key partners
• Systems tools & technologies