Finance Director - Fp&A And Performance Management

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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!

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.

The role of Finance Director – FP&A and Performance Management will serve as a key member of the Diageo North America FP&A team. The candidate will be leading the FP&A corporate team, playing a key role in influencing the strategic direction of the business through a combination of insightful analysis and business partnering to executive team of Diageo North America. In this unique position, excelling in business understanding, financial capabilities, and inter-personal skills will be the components of significant valuable impact.

Accountabilities

• Develop and standardize board level reports and presentations.
• Lead and support the delivery of process simplification and standardization
• Partner with Accounting and Investor Relations to support the quarterly earnings process and regulatory filings.
• Continually drive for best practice and develop a culture for innovation
• Lead the company-wide headcount planning and expense budgeting and forecasting process.
• Partner with Financial systems team to build and deliver a financial systems integration roadmap
• Manage key elements of financial planning, closing and reporting processes (Strategic Plan, AOP, Outlook, actuals and O&R) for P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
• Support investment and resources allocation decision
• Develop an efficient and effective planning process for the organization, ensuring all internal and external factors are considered in developing a robust plan
• Be a business partner to Executive team to provide the thought leadership and challenge on strategic issues
• Proactively identify insights that focus on all opportunities and risks to the delivery of our plans and provoke actions to drive performance improvements.
• Lead the company-wide headcount planning and expense budgeting and forecasting process.

Qualifications And Experienced Required

• S&OP and business performance management
• Prior experience on a global organization or global role
• Structured financial analysis to support decision making.
• Business performance management
• Understanding of internal controls & accounting principles.
• 7+ years of demonstrated success in a dynamic financial organization partnering with various other functions
• Critical Finance Capabilities and consistent track record of outstanding financial and strategic analysis and delivering meaningful recommendations based on this analysis.
• 4+ years of experience in corporate finance/FP&A required, preferably in a consumer good company

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 Diageo to succeed and 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.

Worker Type

Regular

Primary Location:

3WTC

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date

2023-05-11

Salary Range

Minimum Salary:

$136069

Maximum Salary

$226781

At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.