ABOUT GENERAL MILLS

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

JOB OVERVIEW

Function Overview

The Finance organization partners across General Mills to provide financial expertise to guide and govern the company. We bring a distinctive skill set to help the company sustainably drive strong returns on investment, whether that’s brand investments, capital investments or resource investments. We hold ourselves accountable for the areas where we are uniquely positioned to drive results – what we call our Strategic Priorities – but we never lose sight of the fact that we only truly win when the company wins. The Finance function operates as a global team through the partnership of a series of enterprise-focused and business-embedded groups.

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Purpose of the role

Support the Global Emerging Markets (GEMS) business with the end-to-end planning process (PEAK), helping to enable consistent profitable growth. Be an SME in financial forecasting and ensure each cycle submissions are complete and accurate. Provide stakeholders with insightful reporting & analysis. Be the expert in the financial systems, forecast tools and document flows, while always ensuring strong compliance with internal controls.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Submission of Financial Forecast and PEAK support:- 50%

• Assist in preparation and consolidation of data for financial reporting and GPS
• Review submissions for forecasting and budgeting process, managing plugs before finalisation
• Ensuring a complete and accurate financial forecast is submitted, using vol from Demand team, collaboration with cross function teams
• Assisting with the compilation of decks for each Peak monthly meetings
• Provide support on various ad-hoc financial requests from management and senior FA/SFAs
• International MBR deck preparation
• Presence in MBR , MOM tracking for MBRs and follow up on action points
• Key contact for Market Finance Lead

Reporting and Analysis (BAU+ Ad hoc): 50%

• Preparing and distributing actual business results to stakeholders
• Detailed financial summary maintained and refreshed each month
• Base level variances in numbers
• Organising working files and managing hygiene
• Call out Key discrepancies and movements vs plan/Fcst, deep dive analysis, Key drivers & business causals
• Preparing Volume Mix Analysis, AOC. Diligent tracking for monthly MJs
• Perform Scenario planning, ROI analysis, profitability analysis/trend analysis
• Support for Admin Review
• Close collaboration with finance teams and other functions for forecast consolidation Extended Support for SP cycle from developing templates, providing differential cuts analysis and business commentaries, decks presented to the Leadership Team (LT)

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS