Job Description

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Position Title
Manager (D&T/ITQ)
Function/Group
Finance
Location
Mumbai
Shift Timing
1.30pm to 10.30pm
Role Reports to
Senior Manager - D&T & ITQ
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 Haagen-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 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

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or Economics
• Minimum years of related experience required: 9+years
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to interact effectively with all levels
• Advance Excel skills, strong technical and analytical skills

Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed

• Strong business partnering abilities
• Independent and results-oriented
• Ability to shift priorities quickly when necessary
• Ability to align priorities with business strategy and vision
• Anticipates future business/ stakeholder needs and accelerates what is possible
• Deep expertise of systems and data structures - finance and cross-functional
• Process oriented with focus on consistency and integrity
• Analyses successes and failures to learn and continuously improve existing procedures and processes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Preferred Professional Certifications: CA, MBA, PGDBA, MMS
• Preferred years of related experience: 9-12 years
• Preferred Degree Requirements: Masters
• Preferred Major Area of Study- Finance, Analytics, Accountancy

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.

Skills Required