Lead Analyst FP&O - Specialty Business

About us

Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands across spirits and beer categories.  It operates in more than 180 countries and produces in more than 140 sites around the world. Some of the key brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Smirnoff, Don Julio, Tanqueray, Ketel One, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Guinness.

The Financial Planning & Operations team is part of Global Finance and is responsible for planning, forecasting, and analytical activities that support business decision-making and provide a comprehensive view of the company's financial health by bringing together financial, operational, and external data.

The team supports long-term planning. They lead the annual planning cycle and monthly forecasting processes. They also generate insights at market and regional levels to understand key drivers of business performance. By identifying emerging trends and developing early warning signals, the team helps anticipate risks, uncover growth opportunities, and enable timely, accurate, and data-driven decision-making across the business.

The Specialty businesses include a wide range of business divisions from the brand homes, through the Joint Venture structures till the non-standard, non-SAP businesses (e.g. J&B).

About the Role

• Lead the delivery and continuous improvement of global FP&O processes across assigned markets and regions, ensuring planning and reporting activities are executed consistently, efficiently, and in line with global standards.

• Partner with Finance, functional, and market stakeholders to drive planning and reporting excellence, improve process effectiveness, and enable high-quality business decision-making.

• Manage financial planning and reporting processes for assigned markets and regions, ensuring adherence to global standards, governance requirements, and planning calendars.

• Collaborate with collaborators to understand business requirements, resolve planning and reporting issues, and support the adoption of global processes, solutions, and standard methodologies.

• Drive financial process improvements, systems enhancements, and analytical initiatives that strengthen planning and reporting effectiveness, data quality, and operational efficiency.

• Monitor process performance, find opportunities for optimization and standardization, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

• Provide planning and reporting expertise to cross-functional projects and transformation initiatives, supporting the successful implementation of new processes and solutions.

About you

• Bachelor's or Master's n Finance, Business, Economics, or a related discipline.

• 4–6 years of relevant Finance experience, with exposure to FP&A, financial planning, forecasting, or business performance management.

• Good understanding of financial processes and finance systems.

• Experience supporting process improvement, transformation, or standardization initiatives.

• Strong analytical, communication, and partner management skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across functions and work in a global, matrix organization.

• Continuous improvement approach, with a focus on standardization, efficiency, and operational excellence.

• Fluent in spoken and written English.

​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

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

• Unique Family Leave opportunity

• We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world

• You will deal with world class brand portfolio

• Wide variety of thematic events, afterwork activities organized by employee communities

• Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop

• We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym

• Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar

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 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.

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