Financial Controlling Lead Analyst

at  Diageo

Job Description :
Job Title: Financial Controlling Lead Analyst
Location: Budapest
Contract type: Full-time, Permanent
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.
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.
About the role
The Financial Lead Accountant 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, the timely and accurate submission of the financial & statutory report
• Give technical accounting support within the FC team,
• Partner with the RTR team to ensure the information in the legal entity financial statements accurately and completely reflects our business operations
• Support the decision-making process with different financial controlling analysis,
• Perform month end close responsibilities including journal entry preparation, supports the reconciliation process (e.g. accounting mentorship and ensuring accurate backup information and data in alignment with PCAOB requirements)
• Prepare financial & statutory reports and supervise 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

About you

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance / Accounting/ Business Administration
• Qualified accountant
• 4-5 years’ experience in 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

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

Diversity & Inclusion
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
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Budapest
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2024-03-0

• Ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes, the timely and accurate submission of the financial & statutory report
• Give technical accounting support within the FC team,
• Partner with the RTR team to ensure the information in the legal entity financial statements accurately and completely reflects our business operations
• Support the decision-making process with different financial controlling analysis,
• Perform month end close responsibilities including journal entry preparation, supports the reconciliation process (e.g. accounting mentorship and ensuring accurate backup information and data in alignment with PCAOB requirements)
• Prepare financial & statutory reports and supervise 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 requirement