General Mills India | Sr Financial Analyst

Key accountabilities

• In this Senior Financial Analyst role on the Global Supply Chain Finance team, the focus is on leading FP&A and financial governance for raw materials impacting the P&L.
• The role partners with sourcing and cross-functional teams to drive margin improvement, identify cost-saving opportunities, and deliver strong planning, forecasting, and reporting support.
• Shift Timing for this role is: 1.30 pm to 10.30 PM
• Applicants must meet minimum age qualifications in the country in which the job is located.
• Provide financial leadership to procurement category teams across Global Sourcing: Direct & Indirect.
• Lead end-to-end financial processes including inflation guidance, Spring Plan, monthly actuals, and forecasting cycles.
• Support and lead Holistic Margin Management (Cost Efficiency) programs across Platform teams.
• Act as the financial business partner to Platform Directors and Category Buying teams.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration across sourcing, operations, and finance teams.
• Drive deep-dive analysis to identify and quantify purchase savings opportunities.
• Drive efficiencies in our annual and monthly planning/reporting processes.
• Assess performance against plan and identify opportunities to close gaps.
• Identify data outliers, determine root cause and action.
• Identify and partner with Global FP&A Capabilities team on tool enhancements ideas, testing to improve quality of insights.
• Leverage tools, processes and ways of working from Supply Chain Finance to partner on the execution of the Global Supply Chain Finance FP&A processes and serve-up insights to the business.
• Leverage strong knowledge of SAP cost modules to assess pricing, volume impacts, incoterms, and vendor terms

Preferred qualifications

• Professional Certifications: CA, MBA, PGDBA, MMS.
• Supply Chain Finance knowledge is preferred.

General Mills, Inc.

General Mills was formed on 20 June 1928 in its present form when James Ford Bell merged Washburn-Crosby with a number of other regional flour mills, and its roots go back to the Minneapolis Milling Company, incorporated in 1856. Its shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in November 1928. The company is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and sells branded foods through retail stores, including breakfast cereals, baking mixes, refrigerated dough, soup, snack foods and ice cream. It added the pet food maker Blue Buffalo in 2018. In India, General Mills runs the General Mills India Center in Mumbai, a global capability centre that supports the group in supply chain, digital technology, innovation, consumer insights and finance. A satellite office for digital and technology staff opened in Pune in 2025.

Finance hiring is concentrated in Mumbai and covers a wide range of work: corporate finance, supply chain accounting, financial consolidation on OneStream, US payroll tax, SAP finance, cost management, FP&A, brand finance, global internal audit and global finance operations. Roles run from executive and trainee level to associate director and head of function. Several postings ask for a Chartered Accountant or an MBA in Finance, and cost management trainee roles are open to candidates pursuing CMA Intermediate or Final. Internal audit roles prefer CPA, CIA or CISA, and other postings ask for a graduate or postgraduate degree.

• Industry: Branded packaged foods: cereals, baking mixes, refrigerated dough, soup, snacks, ice cream and pet food (Blue Buffalo)
• Headquarters: Golden Valley, Minnesota, United States (listed on the NYSE as GIS)
• In India: General Mills India Center in Mumbai, a global capability centre covering supply chain, digital and technology, innovation, consumer insights and finance, with a satellite office in Pune (Kalyani Nagar, opened 2025)