**Job Description :** **Job Title:** FP&A Cash Global Process Lead **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 insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating. **About the Function:** Our Global Business Operations (GBO) team are facilitators, providing strategic, financial, and business services that are critical to the day-to-day performance of our business. With a team of over 2,000 dedicated and passionate people supporting 21 markets across the world, we have offices in Bangalore, Budapest, Bogota, and Manila. Our global remit offers huge learning opportunities. We encourage learning and development in skills needed now and in the future across digital, industry, professional, and domain. Wherever you start, you’ll be rewarded with a world view and the recognition you deserve in our inclusive and supportive culture. **About the team:** Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Experience 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 level. The Process Excellence team is established to drive a standard process & technical framework with their collaborators that works and supports Diageo to keep up market leader position. This purpose is achieved by embedded governance culture underpinned by global finance processes and policies that is supervised through relevant compliance measurement metrics. Additionally the Process Excellence Team is accountable for the delivery of business strategic change programmes, driving value through standard processes and demonstrating technologies and the deployment of lean, global and compliant ways of working across Diageo in a more consistent and efficient manner. **About the role:** The “Cash Global Process Lead” will support the Head of FP&A Process Excellence in management of Cash FP&A Process(es) within Diageo. The person in the role will regularly work with Market Finance Directors, Local Function leads as well as with Corporate Finance and Functional leads. Responsibility within this role spans the business strategic change requirements for their function/process. The post holder will be expected to take decisions that are in line with overall GBO strategy, but also ensure that the needs of the finance function are clearly met. **Role Responsibilities:** Establish, embed and continuously improve the Balance sheet and Cash flow-related Financial Process(es) to identify and deliver contribution to Diageo’s Strategy, Productivity Agenda and GBO’s Strategy. Drive the vital process and system changes to enable a robust and simplified Balance sheet review, reporting and analysis process and a simplified cash flow forecasting process to generate insight and understanding of drivers as part of an overall FP&A process. The Cash Global Process Lead will be accountable for: + Set vision and drive strategic direction for Cash by having an external lens and ensuring process keeps pace with standard methodology. + Define, establish and embed a global Balance sheet and Cash flow FC Process, ensuring connections to other financial processes, adherence to process and timelines. Build mechanisms for KPI reporting, exception management and critical issues. + Identify and drive operational improvement opportunities to optimise, simplify and automate the BS/Cash flow reporting/forecasting while also delivering a robust control agenda. + Own the technology in place to support the BS/CF processes, ensure that right governance in place to manage enhancements and system updates + Drive understanding across the Diageo leadership community of the role of the FP&A Process(es) in delivering Productivity, ensure understanding of the process and individual roles and responsibilities **Experience / skills required:** + Degree or equivalent experience educated in relevant finance / accounting/ business. + 8-10 years’ experience is Management or Financial Accounting, Financial Performance & Analysis, and/or Financial Controlling + Experience in a global FMCG or similar dynamic operating environment + Fluent English knowledge + Deep understanding of financial processes, with particular focus on Cash/WC forecasting and analysis, FP&A, decision support and BS reporting + Excellent communication skills - proven track record to impact and influence, at a senior collaborator level, virtually across markets with solid networking, influencing & communication skills. + Building International and cross functional relationships to drive engagement + Curious, willing to dig deeper into data and explore linkages + Able to draw insights from finance and non-finance data, construct short story lines, adapt documents and presentations for the intended audience (complexity, detail, altitude). Presents material in a clear confident manner & manages non-verbal communication, in service to message. + Detailed oriented, structured in approach to work + Willing to be flexible and work across work-streams and Diageo collaborators across the world + Self-motivated, team-player **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: TE** **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 accept 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, approaches, 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. _If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application._ **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** Gurugram **Additional Locations :** **Job Posting Start Date :** 2025-06-05 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. **DRINKiQ** What's your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. You can discover everything you need to know at DRINKiQ (https://www.drinkiq.com/en-gb/)