Financial Planning and Analysis Lead Analyst - Africa FP&A team

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 create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Tower is part of Global Business Operations and provides oversight on financial activities and controls including general accounting, management and external reporting and financial planning and analysis. The tower is responsible for the interpretation of financial and statutory data, the coordination and management of financial and statutory reporting, the management of the P&L and balance sheet delivering solutions that will increase insight and transparency. Tower responsibilities also include ensuring there is a true and fair representation of business performance at the cut-off point for the period and transparency on financials for Business Performance Management.

About the Role

As a FP&A Assistant Manager, you will work closely with the In-Market Finance and FP&A teams to drive business performance through strong financial and commercial insight. You will work with senior collaborators and business divisions. You will provide accurate and timely reporting and analysis to support long-term planning, forecasting, and decisions. You will also ensure a robust financial control environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as the finance business partner for assigned business unit(s), with day-to-day ownership of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and key operational KPIs.

• Partnering with business leaders to identify performance drivers, highlight inefficiencies, and unlock opportunities for improved efficiency and value creation.

• Supporting the FP&A team with clear, insightful, and user-friendly analysis to enable effective business conversations.

• Delivering timely forecasts and insights based on trend analysis and close collaboration with partners.

• Leading and supporting monthly management reporting processes, including BPM reports, landing reports, O&R, working capital, and cash flow reporting, and preparing materials for review meetings.

• Preparing and submitting the Annual Operating Plan and Strategic Plan.

• Ensuring completeness and accuracy of market and profit center figures, continuously supervising P&L accounts and resolving inconsistencies.

• Applying sound business judgment to complex financial topics, resolving issues, and providing thorough, accurate, and timely analysis as required.

• Ensuring finance policies and procedures are understood and consistently followed across the team and the market.

About you

• Degree educated in relevant finance / accounting/ business administration

• 4-5 years experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, and/or Financial Controlling

• Strong accounting experience

• Good accounting knowledge

• Have an excellent understanding of BW, SAP, PowerBI solution with the ability to think broadly when a system related challenge occurs and extract data in a way that supports decision making

• Proficient English knowledge

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.

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