Global Marketing Finance Lead Analyst

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we create brands consumers love. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate and innovate. 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

Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We’re part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organization, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we use our digital capabilities and analytics to guide business strategy or build capacity to invest in the future, each day is different in this financial group. Wherever your skills lie, we’ll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

The Global Marketing Finance team is supporting the Global Brand teams of Diageo hence gives a great opportunity to understand more about our core activity. Our activities range from providing analysis and insights to budgeting and spend tracking.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced FP&A Lead Analyst to act as a key finance business partner to the Global Innovation team, supporting end-to-end financial planning, performance management, and reporting. This role plays a critical part in enabling effective decision-making, ensuring strong financial discipline, and supporting the delivery of innovation priorities.

The successful candidate will engage directly with Global Innovation interested parties, as well as senior partners across multiple Global Marketing teams and the Diageo Global Licensing. The role will support day-to-day financial activities, monthly performance reviews, reporting, and budget management, providing insightful analysis and driving transparency across the cost base.

Key responsibilities include supporting the annual planning cycle, managing monthly financial reviews, contributing to forecasting processes, and overseeing actuals reporting. The role also focuses on identifying risks and opportunities, ensuring clear and consistent reporting, and driving financial rigor across a complex and fast-paced interested party environment.

Key responsibilties:

• Provide financial support for the OIE budget within Global Innovation including admin tasks and reporting.

• Manage A&P (Advertising&Promotion) budgets for non‑branded central teams

• Deliver full P&L oversight for the Global Licensing team, manage invoices, support decision making

• Lead the month‑end closing process to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant financial reporting.

• Partner closely with multiple business teams to ensure financial information fully and accurately reflects operational performance.

• Monitor and validate O&R reporting, collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather insights and ensure accuracy for OIE, DGL (Diageo Global Licensing) and Non-Branded A&P

• Prepare and post monthly journal entries, including accrual calculations, to ensure accurate period-end financial data in the system (~10% of the role)

• Provide guidance on budget-related inquiries and ensure costs are accurately allocated to the correct GL accounts while strictly adhering to compliance requirements and internal financial controls.

• Ensure adherence to financial policies and procedures within the team and serve as a trusted advisor to other GBO functional groups.

About you

• Degree in relevant finance / accounting/ business area

• 4-5 years’ experience in Finance / Financial Planning & Analysis / Controlling

• Strong Financial Controlling knowledge (Balance sheet, Group and Local Financial Reporting, Accounting principles)

• Strong financial / commercial analysis background, proven track record to connect with collaborators at varying levels and the ability to flex to different market environments/ cultures

• Ability to prioritize and lead expectations of several stakeholders.

• Strong Excel knowledge and analytical skills

• Fluent English knowledge

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. We recognize 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

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 new heights 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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