Senior Financial Accountant - Treasury

Job title: Senior Financial Accountant - Treasury

Contract type: Full-time, permanent

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 Team

The Financial Reporting team is a key part of Diageo’s Controller’s Group, playing a central role in ensuring accurate, transparent, and timely external financial reporting. The team focuses on:

• Preparing the Group’s Annual Report, Red Book, Press Release, and statutory filings such as 20-F and 6-K, with particular emphasis on Treasury-related sections.

• Monitoring and reporting on central and treasury entities, ensuring governance, compliance, and risk management in Treasury Operations and Financial Reporting.

• Acting as the primary point of contact for assigned regions, providing regional support on group accounting questions and reviewing figures submitted by markets.

• Being a great partner with external advisors, including PwC, and providing technical support on projects affecting external reporting.

• Driving group-level initiatives and collaborating closely with markets to enhance reporting accuracy and efficiency.

Diageo is a complex, international business and one of the top 10 companies in the FTSE All-Share Index. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to consolidating and reporting group results, providing critical support across accounting, reporting, and risk management for Finance and Treasury.

This role supports the accurate and timely preparation of external financial statements and reports, including:

• Preparing accounting papers and supporting documentation for complex accounting issues.

• Involvement in Transactional FX and Net Investment hedging documentation processes.

• Performing market value calculations for financial instruments and managing related operational tasks.

• Ensuring accurate and timely reporting of Treasury entities and monitoring all treasury transactions for accounting impacts.

• Supporting statutory accounts for Treasury entities and producing relevant sections of the Group Annual Report and Half-Year Results.

• Collaborating with Group Tax, auditors, and service providers on reporting and project-related matters.

• Enhancing execution and rationalization across accounting and reporting functions.

• Supporting the Financial Reporting Junior Manager/Manager with projects and business-as-usual tasks, ensuring compliance with internal controls.

About you

You are a dynamic finance professional with 2–3 years of experience in multinational corporations or Big Four environments, holding a BA or MA in Finance, Accounting, or a related field. You thrive in fast-paced, complex environments, with a consistent track record in accounting, reporting, and finance projects. You are passionate about driving accurate and timely financial processes, streamlining workflows, and delivering solutions that create real business value. Known for your strong analytical skills, proactive problem-solving, and ability to influence and inspire teams, you enjoy working collaboratively to achieve results.

What Makes You Successful:

• Accounting & Reporting Expertise: Hands-on experience with General Accounting (GA) and Record-to-Report (RTR) processes, ensuring precision and compliance.

• Project & Process Excellence: Experience contributing to finance projects, optimizing efficiency, and delivering impactful outcomes.

• Strategic Prioritization: Skilled at managing multiple tasks and deadlines while maintaining high-quality results.

• Collaboration & Leadership: Builds strong relationships across teams, motivates peers, and drives effective solutions.

• Communication: Strong business English with the ability to engage partners and finance teams effectively.

• Professional Attributes: Self-motivated, reliable, and a dedicated team player with a proactive outlook.

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