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.
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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!
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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:
Working in Finance at Diageo, you will be a disruptor, as you will challenge your business partners, a value creator, as you will understand strategic growth drivers, and an expert, as you will maintain financial stewardship and accountability. By doing so, you will grow and develop your career across a variety of roles.
As Senior Financial Analyst for Southern Hub, which includes Shelbyville, Stitzel-Weller, Lebanon & Tullahoma sites, your role will be to provide finance and business performance management support to the manufacturing operation, which includes distillation and maturation of whiskey as well as bottling activities.
This is a newly created role with a reporting line to the Finance Director Supply Operation. The Financial Analyst will work closely with the Finance Manager of the Southern Hub. The role will be based out of Shelbyville plant. This role requires regular visits to Southern Hub sites.
Role Responsibilities:
- Provide financial analysis of the manufacturing costs of Southern Hub sites.
- Work with the site manufacturing business partners for delivering productivity targets.
- Organize and manage month-end close reviews and related reporting.
- Support the development and consolidation of annual operating plans (AOP), the latest estimates (LE) and delivery of financial results.
- Consolidate and submit various reports related to manufacturing operations.
- Simplify reporting and financial processes by using digital tools, continuously identify and drive operational improvement and automation for better efficiency in reporting, consolidating & analyzing financial information.
- Maintain a strong internal control & compliance environment and participate in periodic inventory counts.
- Partner with the leadership of Southern Hub sites, including Shelbyville, Stitzel-Weller, Lebanon & Tullahoma sites for day-to-day operation.
- Work with the Business Shared Services for timely and accurately closing the Books and performing various financial analysis.
- Effectively collaborate across the finance community (Tax, Insurance, Supply, FP&A, etc.).
- Business partner with other Supply organizations including Planning, Blending, Technical, Procurement etc. and coordinate the flow of information between multiple levels of management.
Experience/skills required:
- 3+ years of accounting experience, preferably within a manufacturing consumer goods environment.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in finance or accounting is required.
- Strong Excel skills. SAP knowledge a plus.
- Excellent analytical and reporting skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- Excellent networking skills.
- Basic accounting knowledge.
- Financial analysis skills, including ability to manage complex data for financial analysis, reporting and decision support.
- Ability to effectively business partnering with site leadership, communicating across finance organizations and managing multiple partners.
- Strong stewardship mentality.
- Hard-working and working independently.
Diversity statement:
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And crafting 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 encouraged 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, mentalities, 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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