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Position title: FP&A Manager - MENA

Contract: Permanent, full-time

About us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we build shared value.

About the Function

FP&A Experience is part of Global Business Operations and provides oversight on financial activities and controls including management and external reporting and financial planning and analysis. The department is responsible for the interpretation of financial data, the coordination and management of financial reporting, the management of the P&L delivering solutions that will increase insight and transparency, steering towards the defined strategy of the markets as well as driving automatization and innovation in the decision support infrastructure.

The role

• Ensure the management and execution of the performance management agenda through the development of a robust annual plan, reinforced by a monthly rhythm of processes and analysis to provide timely information and insight, forecast and enable the organisation to make high quality decisions that drive peer leading performance.

• Drive the monthly BPM cycle and Landing and O&R reviews.Responsible for the management of cash flow and extended working capital requirements, processes

• Develop an efficient and effective planning process for the organisation, ensuring that all internal and external factors are considered to develop a robust plan in the service of our strategic ambitions that optimally allocates our global resources. Work with business partners and employees to deliver the planning process to standards and timelines.

• Focus the business unit leadership team on the actions required to keep performance on track and ensure that the process supporting the BPM cycle is robust and delivers the right information each month in a timely and fit-for-purpose manner.

• Continually strive for standard process and develop a culture of innovation and continuous improvement to ensure continued efficiency and effectiveness.

• Build and maintain value-driving relationships across the organisation that support business performance and integrate reporting across all business functions. Hold business partners accountable for the delivery of their financial and non-financial commitments.

• Work with Global Brand teams on brand objectives - within market objectives for countries, channels, brands.

• Have a detailed understanding of the business strategy to support business decisions.

The role also includes full responsibility to account for, track and manage the region’s Market’s Advertisement & Promotions budget, through close interaction with the marketing and commercial teams. Regular functional & operational engagement with the Regional Finance Director and other cross-functional departments & Leaders of the organization will be an integral part of this role.

The FP&A Manager is a member of the senior LT with dedicated responsibilities around organizational efficiency and transformation agenda, capability building and people development. Regardless of role location the FP&A Manager is required to lead, coordinate, mentor people both in an immediate team, as well as across the related teams in FP&A tower and in-market when it comes to all aspect of financial performance matters.

About you

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Finance / Accounting/ Business

• 7-8 years’ experience is management or financial accounting, Financial Performance & Analysis, and/or Financial Controlling

• Experience in a global FMCG or similar multifaceted operating environment

• Proficient English knowledge

• Commercial Acumen: Understand the whole business operation in detail and can see connections across departments to see the big picture. Aware of competitors for existing core business. Recognizes key trends and industry characteristics

• Influencing skills: Establish relationships with teams across business units and markets. Proven track record to impact and influence, at a senior partner level, virtually across markets with solid networking, influencing & interpersonal skills

• Effective communication skills: Construct short story lines, adapt documents and presentations for the intended audience (complexity, detail, altitude). Presents material in a clear confident manner & leads non-verbal communication, in service to message

Benefits of working here

• 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

Inclusion & Diversity

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Character Is Everything

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Budapest

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-06-10

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

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