Business Financial Analyst

Job Description:

Position Title

Business Financial Analyst

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

This role provides critical leadership in the areas of capital investment, accounting and controls and financial reporting. This role provides cross-functional exposure as well as the opportunity to develop global business partnership skills while working to continuously improve global capital processes, controls, and reporting. This role will work closely with functional business partners and the Global Capital Team in managing and executing capital projects. There is opportunity for this role to evolve over time as the initial work becomes more efficient and we continue to transform and evolve.

The 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

• Manage the capital investment budgeting, tracking & analysis to deliver the annual capital plan

• Provide accounting & controls leadership to functional business partners

• Policy interpretation & guidance to ITQ Engineers

• Capital Project Life-Cycle guidance to ITQ Engineers

• Facilitate Annual ITQ Fixed Asset Audit with ITQ Engineers

• Develop Depreciation and Project Expense forecast for ITQ Capital projects

• Influence process & controls improvements if necessary with Global Capital Team

• Provide guidance and issue resolution during the capital project lifecycle

• Support business partners on capital prioritization and approval recommendations

• Contribute to other ad hoc projects as needed

• Support projects and work in tandem with Global Admin team around plan, forecasting and reporting

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, Data Analytics, or related field
• 3-5 years of professional experience with some accounting experience preferred
• Working knowledge of SAP
• Able to identify and extract the right data from financial systems to provide meaningful analysis
• High sense of urgency; ability to be proactive, respond quickly, and hit deadlines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Understands the business needs, being proactive with initiative mindset to think and define process requirements process
• Able to shift priorities quickly when necessary
• Process oriented with focus on consistency and integrity
• Transition experience will be an added benefit
• Professional Qualification: CA, MBA, PGDBA, MMS