Senior Finance Analyst

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 ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to build a career worth celebrating.

Which company will you join?

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one’s talent and personality.

Which Finance organization will you join?

Working in Finance at Diageo, you will be a disruptor, as you will challenge your business partners, a value creator, as you will understand strategic growth drivers, and an expert, as you will maintain financial stewardship and accountability. By doing so, you will grow and develop your career across a variety of roles.

About the role:

As Senior Financial Analyst for Valleyfield, QC, Canada (VF) and Gimli, MB, Canada (GM), your role will be to provide finance and business performance management support to the manufacturing operation, which includes distillation, maturation and blending of whiskey as well as bottling of various Diageo brands.

This is a newly created role with a reporting line to the Finance Director Supply Operation. The Financial Analyst will work closely with the Finance Manager of VF & GM. The role will be based out of Valleyfield plant. This role requires regular visits to Gimli plant.

Role Responsibilities:

• Provide financial analysis of the manufacturing costs of the two sites.
• Work with the site manufacturing business partners for delivering productivity targets.
• Organize and manage month-end close reviews and related reporting.
• Support the development and consolidation of annual operating plans (AOP), the latest estimates (LE) and delivery of financial results.
• Consolidate and submit various reports related to manufacturing operations.
• Simplify reporting and financial processes by using digital tools, continuously identify and drive operational improvement and automation for better efficiency in reporting, consolidating & analyzing financial information.
• Maintain a strong internal control & compliance environment and participate in periodic inventory counts.

The role will:

• Partner with the leadership of Valleyfield & Gimli sites for day-to-day operation.
• Work with the Business Shared Services for timely and accurately closing the Books and performing various financial analysis.
• Effectively collaborate across the finance community (Tax, Insurance, Supply, FP&A, etc.).
• Business partner with other Supply organizations including Planning, Blending, Technical, Procurement etc., and coordinate the flow of information between multiple levels of management.

Experience / skills required:

• Basic accounting knowledge.
• Financial analysis skills, including ability to run complex data for financial analysis, reporting and decision support.
• Ability to effectively business partner with site leadership, communicating across finance organizations and managing multiple partners.
• Strong stewardship mentality.
• Hard-working and working independently.
• Bilingual (English & French) is preferred.

• 3+ years of accounting experience, preferably within a manufacturing consumer goods environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in finance or accounting is required.
• Strong Excel skills. SAP knowledge a plus.
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Excellent networking skills.

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At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others.  (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.)  The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.