Financial Accounting Lead

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, Gordons, 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.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted, and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

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

About You

We’re looking for an individual with a drive to be the best and delivering results within the controllership team and markets. You must have the ability to drive change for efficiency and the skills to work with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Closely supports the Financial Controller and other FC team members and liaises with other internal & external stakeholders.
• To ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes, the timely and accurate submission of the financial & statutory report
• Prepare statutory reports and oversee the statutory adjustment and transfer pricing process
• Ensure that financial & statutory processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding control procedures are strictly adhered to in line with the internal (CARM) and external requirements – you want to focue
• Support the team in understanding, interpretation, and implementation of Group accounting and reporting requirements, policies and procedures.
• To give technical accounting support to the FC team and other stakeholders
• To partner with the RTR team to ensure the information in the legal entity financial statements accurately and completely reflects our business operations
• To ensure that financial processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding internal control procedures are strictly adhered to in lines with CARM processes
• To support internal and external audits
• Support the FAC process, provide analysis for the FAC completion
• Performs Capital Structure Review process to ensure liquidity is managed effectively and efficiently

Leadership Competencies:

• Works with moderate levels of independency, solving a range of problem within their area of responsibility.
• Analyses possible solutions based on knowledge and experience of procedures, best practices and the business context.
• Understands key business drivers and the external market.
• Applies judgement and is accountable for own work. May provide guidance to new team members or lead workstreams of projects as applicable.
• The impact of the work will be felt across others in the team and may impact a range of operational or service activities in other teams.
• May require a need to collaborate and communicate complex or sensitive information and build consensus with others.

Diversity statement

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