Sr. Financial Analyst

Position Title

Sr. Analyst – Central Forecast Team

Function/Group

Finance

Location

Mumbai

Shift Timing

11 am to 8 pm

Role Reports to

Manager – Central Forecast Team

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

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

50% of Time Financial Forecast, PEAK. Spring Plan & Stakeholder support:

• SME for Financial Forecasting System,
• Key contact for Market Finance Lead,
• Ensuring a complete and accurate financial forecast is submitted, using vol from Demand team,
• Review Analyst submissions for forecasting and budgeting process,
• Assisting with the compilation of decks for each Peak monthly meetings (PMR, DRM, MBR, SR),

40% of Time Reporting and Analysis

• Provide meaningful analysis to stakeholders on Financial Results
• Call out key discrepancies and movements vs plan/Fcst,
• Preparing and distributing actual business results to stakeholders,
• Pricing and Expense (Admin, Marketing, Trade) consolidation and reporting,
• In-market measures for distributor markets

10% of Time Daily Activities:

• Discussion of results and performance with Stakeholders,
• Continuous improvement of existing procedures and processes,
• Preparation of CWC forecast,
• Evaluation of distributor trade spend forecast (TAF).

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• Education – Full time graduation from an accredited university (Mandatory- Note: This is the minimum education criteria which cannot be altered)
• Required Professional Certifications: B.Com
• Minimum years of related experience required: 7+ years

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Preferred Degree Requirements: Masters
• Preferred Major Area of Study: Finance, Analytics, Accountancy
• Preferred Professional Certifications: CA, MBA
• Preferred years of related experience: 7-9 years

Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed

Should have an excellent level of financial & business acumen as well as advanced competency in Excel. Needs to be a strong partner to both market finance and cross functional teams. Understands the business needs, anticipates, and responds to evolving business requirements. Is an excellent communication and is comfortable becoming an SME in complex areas.

Partnering with Stakeholders

• Comfortable communicating across functional teams and with senior stakeholders,
• Able to critically evaluate financial performance and present the same,
• Has a learning mindset,
• Has a customer service mindset,
• Anticipates future stakeholder needs and accelerates what is possible.

Submission of Financial Forecast and PEAK support

• Use BPC forecast system to ensure all financial inputs are inputted and accurate,
• Critically review forecast output for missing or outlier datapoints,
• Closely liaise with the business finance team with regards forecast submission and output each month,
• Build standardized Peak decks for each monthly meeting (PMR, DRM, MBR, SR),
• Work with stakeholder to put together financial scorecard for each HUB review.

Monthly Reporting

• Monthly actual performance report (vs FCST, SP, LY etc), prepare and distribute to stakeholders,
• Detailed financial summary maintained and refreshed each month,
• Expense (Admin, Marketing, Trade) consolidation and reporting,
• Prepare & distribute NPD sales and distribution for each forecast,
• Monthly Trade spend report with accruals and claims by Customer/Distributor,
• Distributor market reports – IMS, Distribution and Inventory levels,
• SRM/HMM consolidation and reporting.

Other Responsibilities:

• Ad hoc stakeholder reporting requests (Market/Brand/Pack performance, Time period analysis, customer performance etc)
• Compilation of CWC forecast.

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.