Lead Analyst Overheads Planning

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.

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

• Partner with Finance, functional, and market stakeholders to understand business requirements, resolve complex planning issues, strengthen planning effectiveness, and enable high-quality business decision-making.
• Drive planning improvements in execution, systems enhancements, and analytical initiatives that improve planning effectiveness, operational efficiency, and user experience.
• Monitor planning performance, find opportunities for process optimization, standardization, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute planning expertise to cross-functional projects and transformation initiatives, supporting the adoption of global planning processes, solutions, and guidelines across the organization.
• Lead the delivery and continuous improvement of global financial planning processes across assigned markets and regions, ensuring planning activities are executed consistently, efficiently, and in line with global standards, governance requirements, and planning calendars.

About You

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related discipline.
• 4-6 years of relevant Finance experience, with exposure to FP&A, financial planning, forecasting, or business performance management.
• Good understanding of financial planning processes and finance systems.
• Experience supporting improvement in execution, standardization, or transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaborator management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across functions.
• Ability to work effectively in a global, matrix organization and build strong relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on standardization, operational excellence, and process efficiency.
• Proficient in spoken and written English.

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