Inventory Global Process Owner at Diageo

About the Role

This role is the Global Process Owner (GPO) for Inventory end to end, including every aspect of inventory financials. This role partners with various stakeholders, including Financial Controlling & Analysis Inventory leads, in-market finance, and Supply Plan teams to drive processes which enable Diageo to bring value to inventory financial controlling and analysis processes.

The role includes regular collaboration with work-stream leads, markets and functional heads and it will require understanding of Diageo Finance processes, systems and tools, and financial data across all markets and functions.

• Defining, establishing, and embedding global Inventory finance Processes
• Be specialist owner of the IHR (Inventory Health Report) tool, manage enhancements and system updates
• Lead benchmarking conversations with other FMCG companies to understand what best in class looks like and base our own inventory FC&A process on that
• Be the Global expert of the inventory finance processes
• Define, maintain, and communicate Global Process Framework(s), Process Flow Charts, and related documentation re the assigned Finance Processes
• Coordinate the globally standard Finance activities
• Consult into Transform projects to create and define the new Inventory process

About You

• University / College Degree in finance / business
• Understanding of financial processes, with particular focus on Inventory value, Inventory and SLOBS  (Slow-moving and obsolete inventory) reporting, provisioning & forecasting
• 7+ year of finance experience ideally in an FMCG environment
• Inventory management experience is an advantage
• Good organisation skills with an attention to detail
• Able to present/communicate data in a simple factual way for users at all levels in the organisation
• Able to inspire change in the organisation through influencing senior partners
• Attitude to learning new systems

Benefits of working here

• 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