Business Senior Financial Analyst – Global Admin Analytics

Job Description:

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

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

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

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 enterprise-focused and business-embedded groups.

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.

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-

• 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 oversite 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

Minimum Qualification-

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, Data Analytics, or related field
• 6 – 9 years of related experience
• Strong technical and business partner communication skills, Stakeholder management
• Process oriented with focus on consistency and integrity

Preferred Qualification-

• Previous experience in FP&A
• Deep expertise of systems and data structures - finance and cross-functional data
• Understanding of key interdependencies with other cross-functional data set
• Professional Qualification: CA, MBA, PGDBA, MMS

Company Overview:

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.