Junior Manager, FP&O Process Excellence

Job Title: Junior Manager, FP&O Process Excellence

Jog level: L5A

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.

Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands across spirits and beer categories.  It operates in more than 180 countries and produces in more than 140 sites around the world. Some of the key brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Smirnoff, Don Julio, Tanqueray, Ketel One, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Guinness.

About the team

The Financial Planning & Operations team is part of Global Finance and is responsible for planning, forecasting, and analytical activities that support business decision-making and provide a comprehensive view of the company's financial health by bringing together financial, operational, and external data.

The team supports strategic planning, leads the annual planning cycle and monthly forecasting processes, and generates market- and regional-level insights to understand the key drivers of business performance. By identifying emerging trends and developing early warning signals, the team helps anticipate risks, uncover growth opportunities, and enable timely, accurate, and data-driven decision-making across the business.

About the role

• Lead and manage assigned FP&O processes, ensuring consistent execution, effective governance, and alignment with global standards across planning, forecasting, and analytical activities.

• Drive continuous process improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and optimize ways of working, while leading the implementation of process and system enhancements that improve efficiency, controls, user experience, business performance, and decision-making.

• Partner with Finance, Markets, Global Functions, and Digital & Technology teams to gather business requirements, resolve process issues, and ensure the successful adoption and implementation of FP&O processes, technologies, and best practices across the organization.

• Monitor process performance through KPIs, governance routines, and stakeholder feedback, identifying opportunities to enhance effectiveness, compliance, operational excellence, and overall process maturity.

• Develop and maintain process documentation, training materials, and communications to support the adoption of global standards, knowledge sharing, and continuous capability development.

About you

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related fields

• 5–7 years of experience in Finance, with strong exposure to FP&A, financial planning, forecasting, business performance management, finance operations, or financial controlling

• Strong understanding of end-to-end finance processes, with experience in decision support, management reporting, and performance analysis

• Proven experience driving process improvement, standardization, automation, or finance transformation initiatives.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate financial and operational data into actionable business insights and recommendations.

• Data literate, with experience using finance systems, planning solutions, and reporting or visualization tools (e.g., SAP, Anaplan, Power BI, or similar).

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across Finance, Markets, Global Functions, and Digital & Technology teams within a matrix organisation.

• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and capable of handling multiple priorities while delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced environment.

• Continuous improvement mindset, with a proactive approach to simplifying processes, strengthening controls, and enhancing efficiency and user experience.

• Self-motivated, adaptable, and collaborative, with the ability to work independently while contributing effectively to cross-functional teams

• Fluent spoken and written English

Flexible Working Statement

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.  

Rewards & Benefits Statement

We recognise 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

Diversity statement:

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 the next level 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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