Corporate FP&A Lead Analyst

Job title: Corporate FP&A Lead Analyst

Contract type: Full-time, permanent

Location: Budapest

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 an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we build shared value.

The role

• Proactively resolves issues and identifies growth opportunities with vitality, maintaining a strong customer service focus
• Delivers high-quality reporting and insightful business analysis, redefining sophisticated data into relevant insights tailored for diverse audiences
• Provides actionable, realistic recommendations that account for business impacts and budget implications, balancing sound commercial judgment with logical problem-solving
• Builds strong, credible relationships with functional leads, the Controller's Group, and RtR through effective networking and interpersonal skills, improving financial literacy across non-financial teams
• Supports monthly O&R and actual reporting for Central Corporate functions and collaborates closely with Corporate Finance team members on ad-hoc requests, primarily aiding the Corporate FP&A Junior Manager and Senior Manager.

• Focus: 90% P&L, 10% Balance Sheet
• Leads the monthly actual reporting
• Coordinates O&R input collection and forecasting
• Analyzes profit centers for "vs Plan" and "YoY" variances, supporting recommendations alongside FP&A Junior and Senior Managers
• Actively participates in corporate planning and AOP submissions using tools like BFC and Anaplan
• Allocates central corporate results to regions for group external reporting

Supports ad-hoc analyses and project work where central corporate engagement is vital

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Management, or Finance
• 3+ years of relevant professional experience in finance or related fields
• Good communication skills in negotiation, influence, and expectation management
• Proficient in financial systems and advanced Excel for complex data analysis
• Solid understanding of SAP or similar ERP systems
• Excellent analytical skills with a dedication to accuracy
• Ability to balance multiple business partners
• Self-driven and capable of working independently
• Persistent and solution-focused, with the ability to dive deep into issues until resolve
• Proficient in English

Benefits of working here

• Outstanding 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

Inclusion & Diversity

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 outstanding contribution each person brings.

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

Character Is Everything