Centralized A&P Analyst

Job Description :

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we create brands consumers love. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate and innovate. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating!

About the Function:

Our Marketing team are creators, helping to build and nurture some of the world’s most loved brands. We craft amazing connections with people around the world to celebrate our brands’ legacies and reimagine them for the world today, and into the future.

Everything we do is underpinned by a deep understanding of our consumers, behaviours, trends, and technologies. Using our genius and creativity, we unlock our brands’ uniqueness, understand their purpose, and put them at the heart of celebrations everywhere. Together, we’re celebrating diversity and challenging stereotypes through our advertising and marketing. Wherever your talents lie, from Design to Consumer Planning, you’ll be celebrated and supported in our inclusive culture.

About the role:

The Centralized A&P Analyst role provides critical analytical and operational support to Diageo’s Centralized A&P funding model. This role is responsible for the day‑to‑day administrative, reporting, and coordination work required to support disciplined spend management and financial governance. The Analyst works closely with Managers and the Director to ensure budgets, Purchase Orders, invoices, and reporting are accurate, up to date, and compliant with established controls. This role is execution‑focused, detail‑oriented, and essential to keeping centralized spend operations running smoothly at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Support day‑to‑day spend management operations across centralized A&P budgets, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely execution.

• Create and open Purchase Orders, validating required information, coding, and documentation prior to submission and approval by Managers or the Director.

• Provide administrative and analytical support for budget tracking, maintaining spreadsheets, trackers, and system views by brand, market, activity, and supplier.

• Support spend reporting and reconciliation, including data pulls, validation, variance checks, and preparation of regular reporting materials.

• Assist with reconciliation processes, including GRing support, accrual tracking, invoice validation, and documentation to support approvals and issue resolution.

• Support CPS and activity setup, including accurate use and validation of WBS codes prior to spend activation.

• Coordinate with agency partners to collect required billing documentation, confirm spend details, and resolve basic invoice or PO discrepancies.

• Maintain organized documentation and audit trails to support financial governance and compliance requirements.

• Support Managers by preparing insights, summaries, and materials used for roll‑ups and updates to the Director.

• Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, or process inefficiencies and flag them to Managers for resolution.

Experience / skills required:

• 1–3+ years of experience in analytics, finance, budgeting, operations, or reporting, preferably within a matrixed organization.

• Exposure to PO, invoicing, accrual, or budget tracking processes is strongly preferred.

• Experience working with spreadsheets, financial trackers, and reporting systems.

• Comfort working cross‑functionally with Commercial, Brand, Finance, Operations teams, and external partners.

• Strong attention to detail with a demonstrated ability to manage high volumes of data accurately.

Skills & Attributes

• Detail‑Driven Executor: Highly accurate, organized, and disciplined in managing data and administrative tasks.

• Analytical Mindset: Comfortable working with numbers, reconciliations, and reporting to support decision making.

• Supportive Team Player: Thrives in a support role, enabling Managers and Directors to operate effectively.

• Process‑Oriented: Follows established controls and governance while flagging gaps or risks early.

• Clear Communicator: Able to clearly document, organize, and communicate information to internal teams.

• Adaptable & Reliable: Comfortable operating in evolving ways of working and handling recurring operational tasks with consistency.
  

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

3WTC

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-05-013 WORLD TRADE CENTER, NY: SALARY RANGE IS FROM $66.413 TO $110.688 (ANNUAL)

At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.