Senior Analyst Overheads - Financial Planning & Operations

Job Title: Senior Analyst Overheads - Financial Planning & Operations

Location: Budapest

Contract terms: Permanent

Grade: L5C

About us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life. 

About us

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 function

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, owns 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.

• Assist in delivering and continuously improving global financial planning processes in assigned markets and regions. Make sure planning activities are completed accurately and consistently according to global standards.

• Partner with Finance and market stakeholders to support planning cycles, address business requirements, and drive the adoption of global planning processes and capabilities.

• Contribute to improvements in execution, systems enhancements, and transformation initiatives that strengthen planning effectiveness, efficiency, and user experience.

• Deliver financial planning activities for assigned markets and regions, ensuring adherence to governance standards, planning calendars, and process requirements.

• Support planning improvements in execution, systems enhancements, and transformation initiatives through analysis, testing, and effective collaborator engagement.

• Prepare planning analysis, KPI reporting, and process documentation to support governance, continuous improvement, and informed business decision-making.

• Resolve planning queries and collaborate with stakeholders to address issues, improve process effectiveness, and enhance the overall user experience.

• Find opportunities to simplify, standardize, and continuously improve planning activities across the assigned portfolio.

What you will bring

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

• 2–4 years of relevant Finance experience, ideally within FP&A, financial planning, forecasting, or business analysis.

• Good understanding of financial planning and forecasting processes.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured approach and strong attention to detail.

• Experience using financial planning, reporting, or analytical tools (e.g. SAP, Anaplan, Power BI, or equivalent).

• Good communication and partner management skills, with the ability to build effective and collaborative working relationships.

• Proactive and well-organized, with a strong sense of ownership and a dedication to continuous improvement.

• Proficient in spoken and written English.

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

Flexibility

This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time and compressed hours. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Diversity statement

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.

Recruitment Scam Warning

Protecting candidates is very important to us. All communications regarding your application will come from an email address ending in @diageo.com. In our recruitment process, we'll never ask for money.