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Diageo FP&A Overheads Analyst in Bogota, Colombia

Job Description :

Job Posting Title: FP&A Overheads Analyst

Location: Bogotá

Type of Contract: Permanent

About us:

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of excellent character, and in 250 years, nothings changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy. And it’s 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 world’s very best people.

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Context/Scope:

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Experience Tower is part of Global Business Operations and covers a set of planning, forecasting & analytical activities that support business decisions and help understanding of overall financial health by combining financial, operational and external data in one place. It involves supporting strategic planning, leading Annual Operating Planning (AOP), supporting landing, handling performance analysis, and generating insights on strategic market and regional le vel. Tower responsibilities also include ensuring timely, accurate, standardized reporting combined with beneficial analysis. Fast and sharp insights to understand what factors drive business performance with the aim to devise early warning signals to better anticipate risks and help identify growth opportunities, support quick & accurate decision making and act as excellent business partners to achieve financial goals.

Leadership Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain value driving relationships across the organisation that support business performance. Hold the business partners to account for the delivery of overhead commitments.

  • Mobilize resources to help team to mitigate/course correct risks and uses experience and judgement to actively search for opportunities.

  • Collaborate with senior management on standard methodologies, O&R, value creation for the team and takes a lead in ensuring that robust processes are in place, policies are followed.

  • Guides the team to generate insights into issues quickly, prioritises effectively, develops solutions that drive the business forward and focus on resolving route cause.

  • Set the team up for longer term success and work with them in their development areas. Dimensions of the role

  • Fully owns delivery of Region’s Overhead yearly budget from all aspects

  • Manages great variety of senior customers including: Market Regional Finance Director, Market Finance Director, FP&A Managers, In market teams, FC, RFC, as well as occasionally working with Group Finance and other Group Functions on overheads.

Purpose of Role

  • Lead & manage OH Team to drive efficient and effective overhead business planning, reporting & analyses.

  • Provide management leadership & support to ensure excellent service level & quality.

  • Helps the team to develop cost reduction strategies, drive cost savings projects and opportunities with budget owners, play the role of thought partner & functional expert.

  • Expert on a specific Overhead category and provides recommendations to achieve efficiency targets/goals.

  • Lead compliance & controls in the overhead area, ensures the accuracy and compliance through robust application of policies & procedures, in line with internal and external requirements.

  • Continuously improving the quality and efficiency of Overheads based on best practices, ensuring that fit-for-purpose standard operating procedures are in place and e involve as business needs change.

  • Having a thorough understanding of the business strategy, advise on financial implications of business decision, provides insight, and ensure that financial implications are carefully considered.

  • Provide regular communication, drive overhead review conversations with various levels of management.

Top 3-5 Accountabilities

The successful candidate will be expected to take full ownership of the processes and deliverables they are assigned. Including:

  • Region ’s AOP, O&R ownership and active participation on Monthly Business Performance Management reviews. Work with business in strong partnership to deliver accurate financials.

  • Go be yond the numbers using a variety of analytics, data sets to drive insights that focus on opportunities and risks and provoke actions to drive value for the business.

  • Regular business updates with senior management

  • Develop hard-working overhead team

Qualifications and Experience Required

  • University / College Degree in finance / business

  • Minimum of 4 years working and management experience in multinational corporate environment, with successful experience in managing and driving change, experienced people manager

  • FP&A, management accounting, Overhead cost controlling & reporting processes

  • Fluent English knowledge

  • Proven ability to impact and influence Effective communication Challenges the as is Leadership Skills

Leadership Skills

Be Authentic :

Stands for what is right and important and does what they say without exception, demonstrating the kind of integrity that inspires others. Builds and sustains trust through real relationships, challenging effectively wherever vital.

Constantly Deliver Great Performance :

Finds solutions, influences delivery of results for the business, contributes to shaping the future of the business and inspires others to deliver the strategy. Moves effectively between strategy and operational detail, judging when or where to intervene. Knows and is responsive to external influences on the business and ensure controls are in place to guarantee Diageo’s performance and reputation.

Create conditions for people to succeed :

Builds' alignment; committed to outstanding teamwork, consistently improves. Provides the context for others to own the outcome, provides the context for the people to think, decide, act.

Barriers to Success in Role

  • Lack of Finance/accounting knowledge / qualification

  • Unable to maintain a robust financial control environment, ensuring compliance with all regulatory and internal control requirements.

  • Lack of ability to drive continuous improvement and change whilst and bringing people with them on the journey and continuing to be delivering baseline performance; Unable to think innovatively and find solutions to complex problems.

  • Unable to understand business issues.

  • Unable to build great relationships, poor communication skills and lack of professional maturity, unable to challenges others with ensuring we are doing the “right thing” for the business at all times.

  • Unwilling to take ownership for issue resolution and driving tasks to completion.

  • Lack of ability to handling priorities, making evaluated decisions

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our people 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.

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And crafting an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is an important part of this.

We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. 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.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Bogota - EOB

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-12-20

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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