Financial Controlling Lead Analyst

Job Title: Financial Controlling Lead Analyst

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Job level: L5B

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. 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

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. Tower responsibilities also include ensuring there is a true and fair representation of business performance at the cut-off point for the period and transparency on financials for Business Performance Management.

About the role

• Drive smooth and accurate month-end closes, including journal entries, reconciliations, and timely financial and statutory report submissions.

• Provide technical accounting support to the FC team and advise other GBO functions (Tax, Group Accounting, etc.) on complex accounting matters.

• Partner with RTR to ensure legal entity financial statements fully and accurately reflect business operations.

• Prepare financial and statutory reports; oversee statutory adjustments and transfer pricing processes.

• Support decision-making with actionable financial analyses, including contributions to the FAC process.

• Ensure processes are accurate, efficient, and compliant with internal (CARM) and external controls, interpreting and implementing Group Accounting standards while communicating requirements to the team.

• Serve as a point of guidance for the team, ensuring adherence to policies and procedures.

About you

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance / Accounting/ Business

• Qualified accountant

• 4-5 years’ experience in relevant area

• Experience working within an international / multicultural environment

• Exemplary 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

Benefits

• 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

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!