Diageo - Manager - Finance - Marketing Vertical

Job Description :

Qualification - Qualified Chartered Accountant / MBA Finance

Experience - 2-4 years of post-qualification experience, ideally in an FMCG environment

1 Functional Responsibilities

This Role has two legs - Performance reporting on central marketing / Media spends and Financial accounting / audit. In Performance reporting the role will be accountable for Budget related activities, actual performance vs budget at a granular level of brand / segment / channel etc. In the Financial accounting / audit the role will be accountable for month / quarter / year end accrual of ATL - A&P, Preparing and sharing company's financials to the Statutory auditors and support Financial Audit related to ATL - A&P. This entails the complete ownership of Marketing - Media spends of the company.

2 Financial accounting / audit:

- Review and Approval for Marketing - media Overheads.

- Review of actual spends viz-a-viz previous period comparison

- Responsible for Stat Audits, Quarterly Limited review and interim, financial Audit of ATL A&P

- Inventory ageing and SLOB reporting of marketing materials

- Data ownership of ATL A&P to enable any analytics or auditor's requirement

- Performance ownership of GIC related to A&P KPIs

- Responsible to ensure control compliance for A&P processes

3 Performance reporting:

- Budget - preparation of all analytics for finalization of A&P budget and provide historical data for budget preparation

- Performance reporting and analysis of Actual vs Budget

- Provide innovation related inputs to Global team w.r.t brand wise AOP, Actuals, IOP, etc.

- Financial data for any on-going projects / analysis

- Preparation of analytics for the business partner engagement with the category board

- Managing Global data requests on timely basis