Business Senior Financial Analyst – Global Admin Analytics

About the job

Position Title: Business Senior Financial Analyst – Global Admin Analytics Function/Group: Finance Location: Mumbai Shift Timing: 1.30pm to 10.30pm Role Reports to: Sr Manager- GAAT 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. Job Overview: Purpose of the role: The Senior 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. Key Accountabilities: • Analytics and Insights – provide analysis and insights around actuals to help inform forecast • Monthly Business Review: build/ provide Monthly/Quarterly business review decks & proactively manage queries from Business partners • Support projects and improvements for team around plan and reporting • Deliver on budgeting and forecasting exercise, report creation, and planning templates to support team members and business partners. • Provide oversight to Monthly JE and YE close process and procedures • Lead in establishing effective data quality requirements; partner with team members to enable and define process requirements for resolution • Own core data model hierarchies and attributes, define document related policies and maintain/adapt as needed. • Provide outstanding global end user support resolution (timely, effective, sustainable tools, etc) • Understands the business needs, being proactive with initiative mindset to think, define process requirements to an evolving process. Able to shift priorities quickly when necessary. • Stakeholder management – anticipates future business/stakeholder needs and accelerates what is possible. • Aligns priorities with business strategy and vision • Analyzes successes and failures to learn and continuously improve. • Proficient at handling the financial systems, forecast tools and document flows, while always ensuring strong compliance with internal controls. • Ad hoc request support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, Data Analytics, or related field
• CA, MBA, PGDBA, MMS

About the company

General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. Today, it operates as a global team, delivering business value, service excellence, and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.