Financial Controlling Lead Analyst - Italian speaking

at  Diageo

Job Description :
Job Title: Financial Controlling Lead Analyst - Italian speaking
Location: Budapest
Contract: permanent, full-time
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.
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, business 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 to the FC team
• Partner with the RTR/Business teams 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
• Ensure that the policies and procedures are understood and followed in the team and act as advisor to other GBO group
• function teams
• Perform month end close responsibilities including journal entry
• preparation, supports the reconciliation process (e.g. accounting
• guidance 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
• Understand, interpret, and implement Group Accounting and Reporting requirements; communicate requirements to the rest of the Financial Control team and to relevant teams in GBO
• Support the FAC process, provide analysis for the FAC 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 and Italian knowledge

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 :
2024-05-2

• Ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes, the timely and accurate submission of the financial & statutory report
• Give technical accounting support to the FC team
• Partner with the RTR/Business teams 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
• Ensure that the policies and procedures are understood and followed in the team and act as advisor to other GBO group
• function teams
• Perform month end close responsibilities including journal entry
• preparation, supports the reconciliation process (e.g. accounting
• guidance 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
• Understand, interpret, and implement Group Accounting and Reporting requirements; communicate requirements to the rest of the Financial Control team and to relevant teams in GBO
• Support the FAC process, provide analysis for the FAC completio