Manager - D&T/ITQ

ABOUT GENERAL MILLS

We make foodthe world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Hagen-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

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 India and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out

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 enterpri se-focused and business-embedded groups.

Purpose of the role

The Lead Financial Analyst will be focusing on analytics, reporting, forecast accuracy and establishing standardization. This individual will play a pivotal role in enhancing the Finance function through stronger analytics, financial modelling, and establishing a foundation for standardization.

We are looking for someone with an analytical mindset. Critical success factors for this role include the ability to understand key business assumptions and drivers, understand financial systems and processes, as well as the ability to effectively communicate with and educate business partners while demonstrating a strong overall customer service orientation. In this role you will be able to build your process excellence, reporting expertise and situational agility capabilities.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

. Lead in establishing effective data quality requirements define and own core data model hierarchies and attributes

. Create/Update documentation and maintain/adapt as needed across business

. Partner with relevant finance leaders to enable and define process requirements for standardization

. Perform activities including reconciliation across systems, cross charges, headcount forecast, forecast submission

. Analytics and Insights - develop standardized financial models to offer deep dive insights and business drivers

. Forecast Accuracy: Manage forecast accuracy & reporting for the business

. Monthly Business Review: build/ provide Monthly/Quarterly business review decks & proactively manage queries from Business partners

. Spring Plan for Compensation & Non compensation- effective management of spring plan schedule, deliver on budgeting & forecasting exercise Spring Plan templates, coordination with WHQ-GAAT resources

. Manage and monitor Month-end process and reporting for the segments/functions review and provide insights around actuals

. Support projects and improvements for team around plan and reporting

. Understands the business needs, being proactive with Initiative mindset to think, define process requirements to an evolving process (Finance Transformation)

• Proficient at handling the financial systems, forecast tools and document flows, while always ensuring strong compliance with internal controls understanding of key interdependencies with other cross-functional data sets
• Work with global stakeholders and teams as One team
• Ad hoc request support

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