Job Description: Position title: Senior Analyst - FP&A; - Overhead COE 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. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has a relevant role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we build shared value. Context/Scope: Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A;) Experience Tower 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 le vel. Tower responsibilities also include ensuring timely, accurate, standardized reporting combined with beneficial analysis. Fast and sharp insights to understand what factors drive business performance with the aim to devise early warning signals to better anticipate risks and help identify growth opportunities, support quick & accurate decision making and act as excellent business partners to achieve financial goals. Leadership Responsibilities - Build and maintain value driving relationships across the organisation that support business performance. Hold the business partners to account for the delivery of overhead commitments. - Mobilize resources to help team to mitigate/course correct risks and uses experience and judgement to actively search for opportunities. - Collaborate with senior management on standard methodologies, O&R;, value creation for the team and takes a lead in ensuring that robust processes are in place, policies are followed. - Guides the team to generate insights into issues quickly, prioritises effectively, develops solutions that drive the business forward and focus on resolving route cause. - Set the team up for longer term success and work with them in their development areas. Dimensions of the role - Fully owns delivery of Region’s Overhead yearly budget from all aspects - Handles great variety of senior collaborators including: Market Regional Finance Director, Market Finance Director, FP&A; Managers, In market teams, FC, RFC, as well as occasionally working with Group Finance and other Group Functions on overheads. Purpose of Role - Lead & handle OH Team to drive efficient and effective overhead business planning, reporting & analyses. - Provide management leadership & support to ensure excellent service level & quality. - Helps the team to develop cost reduction strategies, drive cost savings projects and opportunities with budget owners, play the role of thought partner & functional authority. - Authority on a specific Overhead category and provides recommendations to achieve efficiency targets/goals. - Continuously improving the quality and efficiency of Overheads based on best practices, ensuring that fit-for-purpose standard operating procedures are in place and evolve as business needs change. - Having a thorough understanding of the business strategy, advise on financial implications of business decision, provides insight, and ensure that financial implications are carefully considered. - Provide regular communication, drive overhead review conversations with various levels of management. Top 3-5 Accountabilities - Region ’s AOP, O&R; ownership and active participation on Monthly Business Performance Management reviews. Work with business in strong partnership to deliver accurate financials. - Go be yond the numbers using a variety of analytics, data sets to drive insights that focus on opportunities and risks and provoke actions to drive value for the business. - Regular business updates with senior management - Develop high performing overhead team Qualifications and Experience Required - University / College Degree in finance / business - Minimum of 8-9 years working and management experience in multinational corporate environment, with successful experience in handling and driving change, experienced people manager - FP&A;, management accounting, Overhead cost controlling & reporting processes - Fluent English knowledge - Confirmed ability to impact and influence Effective communication Challenges the as is Leadership Skills Leadership Skills Be Authentic: Stands for what is right and important and does what they say without exception, demonstrating the kind of integrity that inspires others. Builds and sustains trust through real relationships, challenging effectively wherever vital. Constantly Deliver Great Performance: Finds solutions, influences delivery of results for the business, chips in to shaping the future of the business and inspires others to deliver the strategy. Moves effectively between st