Supply FP&A Africa Lead analyst

at  Diageo

Job Description :
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
The Supply Financial Controlling and Analysis team is a truly global and diversified department. We are contributing through the end-to-end Supply Chain from the consumer to the supplier. We are playing a big part in making our brands as we source, distill, brew, pack, and ship.
Here you can be truly connected to our brands and can get an insight into Procurement sourcing strategy and support their work with financials. You can be the Finance business partner to the Production sites and the Logistics team moving finished goods from the factories to the warehouse, then to the distributors or consumers.
Now we are looking for a colleague to join our newly built Africa team covering the Financial Control activities for Supply processes.

About the Role

• Take full responsibility for the day to day management of the respective Profit and Loss & Balance sheet area from accounting, reporting and controlling perspective in a non-standard COGS environment
• Decision support for business partners through value add analysis, thorough understanding of movements on accounts, the business reason behind those, and collection and presentation of Risk & Opportunities
• Planning – Full coordination with markets, sense check and validate the bottom up results to the top down expectation
• Prepare quality reconciliations through deep understanding of the figures supported, reported
• Continuously monitor the respective P&L and/or BS accounts for any inconsistencies
• Prepare and post accruals to ensure the month-end results show the clear and fair picture
• To ensure that financial processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding internal control procedures are strictly adhered to in line with CARM processes
• To contribute ideas, energy, enthusiasm and support to the continuous improvement of the process. Simplify and standardize processes across Region end-to-end.
• Ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes in a non-standard COGS environment
• Coordination of the month-end closure, yearly planning processes for the respective area
• Leading the consolidation of country or function level data along with the required level of non-financial insight
• Project managing of process initiatives and system developments
• Liaising with external Auditors and coordinating the audit work

About You

• University or College degree in Finance and Accountancy / Economics / Business
• 3-5 years of experience in Finance / Financial Controlling
• Experience in a Shared services environment is considered as an advantage
• Excellent Business English knowledge
• Strong MS Excel skills
• Good communication and business partnering skills with senior partners
• Strong analytical skills and attention to details

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
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our people 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!
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this.
We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. 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.
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Budapest
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2024-09-1

• Take full responsibility for the day to day management of the respective Profit and Loss & Balance sheet area from accounting, reporting and controlling perspective in a non-standard COGS environment
• Decision support for business partners through value add analysis, thorough understanding of movements on accounts, the business reason behind those, and collection and presentation of Risk & Opportunities
• Planning – Full coordination with markets, sense check and validate the bottom up results to the top down expectation
• Prepare quality reconciliations through deep understanding of the figures supported, reported
• Continuously monitor the respective P&L and/or BS accounts for any inconsistencies
• Prepare and post accruals to ensure the month-end results show the clear and fair picture
• To ensure that financial processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding internal control procedures are strictly adhered to in line with CARM processes
• To contribute ideas, energy, enthusiasm and support to the continuous improvement of the process. Simplify and standardize processes across Region end-to-end.
• Ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes in a non-standard COGS environment
• Coordination of the month-end closure, yearly planning processes for the respective area
• Leading the consolidation of country or function level data along with the required level of non-financial insight
• Project managing of process initiatives and system developments
• Liaising with external Auditors and coordinating the audit wor