Financial Analyst-GAAT

Position Title

Business Financial Analyst

Function/Group

Global Admin Analytics Team (GAAT)

Location

Mumbai- Powai

Shift Timing

1.30pm – 10.30pm IST

Role Reports to

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 http://www.generalmills.com

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 Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

Job Overview

Join the Global Admin Analytics Team (GAAT) and take on an important role in leading the Global Admin reporting for plan and estimates to support our overall GAAT strategic priorities.

The GAAT team supports business decisions to prioritize and estimate admin spending including compensation and non-compensation expenses like travel, professional fees. This role will work in an expense management team handling Compensation and Non-compensation levers of expenses and to ensure providing information to leaders across the globe to enable right investment and resourcing decisions.

We’re looking for someone with an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand key business assumptions, drivers of change, understand financial systems and processes, as well as the ability to effectively communicate with and educate users while demonstrating a strong overall customer service orientation

This role shall provide significant cross-functional exposure as well as the opportunity to develop and enhance global business partnership skills, analytical and reporting expertise.

Key Accountabilities

• Perform actuals and variance analysis, provide insights to help build and inform forecast. Support WHQ GAAT resources and other business partners.
• Identifying areas of operational efficiencies, understanding cost structures, analyzing cost drivers, and identifying opportunities for cost reduction.
• Provide oversight to Monthly Journal entries and year end close process and procedures in coordination with ACE.
• Proficiency in Data Analysis for collecting, analyzing and interpreting the information to perform strong mathematical and statistical analysis, partner with WHQ–GAAT resources to enable and define key messaging of the financial drivers to the leadership team.
• Support projects and improvements for admin team around plan and reporting (Finance Transformation)
• Need for impactful presentation skills. Ability to create and deliver compelling presentations to effectively communicate financial information and recommendations.
• Own core data model hierarchies and attributes; define and 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.
• Proficiency in using spreadsheet software (Excel). Working knowledge of any financial modelling software is welcomed.
• Understanding of business strategy to drive right communication to Business Leads to aid strategic decision-making.
• Proficient at handling the financial systems, forecast tools and document flows, while always ensuring strong compliance with internal controls.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field
• At least 2-3 year 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 Skillset

• Understands the business needs, being proactive with Initiative mindset to think, define process requirements to an evolving process.
• Strong mathematical and statistical skills for performing financial analysis and interpreting data.
• Anticipates future business/ stakeholder needs and accelerates what is possible.
• Process oriented with focus on consistency and integrity
• Understanding of key interdependencies with other cross-functional data set.
• Aligns priorities with business strategy and vision
• Analyses successes and failures to learn and continuously improve.
  
  

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.