Senior Analyst Planning in A&P FP&O Demand team

Job Title: Senior Analyst Planning in A&P FP&O Demand team

Location: Budapest

Contract Term: Permanent

Grade: 5C

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 – Crafting iconic drinks chosen for life’s moments – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

About the Function

The Financial Planning & Operations team sits at the heart of Global Finance, helping shape better business decisions through robust planning, forecasting, and performance insights. We partner with teams across markets and regions to deliver the financial plans that drive Diageo's strategy and support sustainable growth.

About the Role

We're looking for a highly motivated Senior Analyst, Planning to join our A&P FP&O Demand team. In this role, you'll play a key part in delivering high-quality financial planning processes, partnering with markets and finance teams to enable better business decisions through accurate planning, insightful analysis, and continuous process improvement and standardization.

You'll work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment where you'll have the opportunity to contribute to planning transformation initiatives, improve global processes, and build strong relationships with stakeholders across regions.

• Deliver planning and forecasting activities for assigned markets or regions, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant execution.

• Partner with Finance and market stakeholders throughout planning cycles to provide guidance and resolve planning queries.

• Produce financial analysis, KPI reporting, and insights that support business decision-making.

• Contribute to planning transformation initiatives, including process improvements, systems enhancements, and testing of new capabilities.

• Build and maintain planning documentation, governance materials, and process mentorship.

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and continuously improve planning processes and user experience.

• Collaborate with colleagues across Finance to drive consistent ways of working and best practices.

About You

• A university degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field.

• 1–4 years of experience in Finance, preferably in FP&A, planning, forecasting, or business analysis.

• A solid understanding of financial planning and forecasting processes.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.

• Experience working with finance systems such as SAP, Anaplan, Power BI, or similar planning and reporting tools.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build effective working relationships.

• A proactive mindset, strong organizational skills, and a continuous improvement mentality.

• Fluency in written and spoken English.

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

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

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 embrace 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, mindsets, 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.

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