Financial Controlling Lead Analyst - ESG

Job title: Financial Controlling Lead Analyst

Contract type: Full-time, permanent

Job level: L5B

About us

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

The team

Financial Controlling and Analysis (FC&A) Tower is part of Global Business Operations and provides oversight on financial activities and controls including general accounting, management and external reporting and financial planning and analysis. The tower is responsible for the interpretation of financial and statutory data, the coordination and management of financial and statutory reporting, the management of the P&L and balance sheet delivering solutions that will increase insight and transparency.

The role

The Financial Controlling Lead Analyst will support the team members with technical related questions and issues, also support people in different functions such as tax, group accounting when it comes to financial controlling, technical accounting matters.

Main responsibilities

• Ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes, including journal entry preparation and supporting the reconciliation process (e.g., accounting mentorship and ensuring accurate backup information in alignment with PCAOB requirements)
• Timely and accurate submission of financial, statutory, and ESG reports; supervise the statutory adjustment and transfer pricing process
• Partner with the RTR team, FP&A, and market teams to ensure the legal entity financial statements accurately reflect our business operations
• Support decision-making processes with various financial controlling analyses
• Ensure that policies and procedures are understood and followed within the team; act as an advisor to other GBO group function teams
• Ensure that financial, statutory, and ESG processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time, and that surrounding control procedures are strictly adhered to in line with internal (CARM) and external requirements
• Understand, interpret, and implement Group Accounting and Reporting as well as ESG reporting requirements; communicate these requirements to the Financial Control team and relevant teams in GBO.
• Support the FAC process by providing analysis for its completion.

About you

• Degree educated in relevant finance / accounting/ business
• Qualified accountant
• 4-5 years' experience in relevant area
• Experience working within an international / multicultural environment
• Outstanding Risk Management (Internal Controls, Managing Risk, Embedding Compliance & Ethics)
• Strong Financial Controlling knowledge (Balance sheet, Group and Local Financial Reporting, Accounting principles)
• Strong analytical skills to be able to see and understand the big picture and deliver high level message, offering solutions for issues
• Proficient English knowledge
• ESG reporting related experience is an advantage

Benefits of working here

• Unique Family Leave opportunity
• We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world
• You will deal with world class brand portfolio
• Wide variety of thematic events, afterwork activities organized by employee communities
• Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop
• We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym
• Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar

Inclusion & Diversity

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of "celebrating life every day everywhere". This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.

Character Is Everything