Job Title-

Assistant Manager - Finance Experience-3

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.

Diageo Global Business Operations the largest and most matured member of the network, provides various finance and accounting related activities and HR operations services to the relevant Diageo entities across the globe.

About the Function-

Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We're part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we're utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future - no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we'll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

About the team-(TE)

About the role-

Executional Understanding: Knows how to make things happen in immediate environment by using formal and informal channels.

. Driving change: Embraces change and takes ownership for driving initiatives in own area

. Positive Intent: Sustains a positive outlook across a range of situations. Encourages this in others.

. Effective communication: Summarises the fact and delivers the message using different communication styles according to the audience. Aware of impact they have on others.

. Prioritisation: Operates in determined and purposeful manner. Organises actions around key goals.

. Anticipates customers needs: Proactively looks to identify people's needs from various sources. Truly anticipates people's needs and manages expectations.

. Problem solving: Agrees a clear course of action in non-routine issues without support. Involves all related parties to resolve cross-functional issues.

Purpose of Role:

This Team will be responsible to produce and submit BFC reporting and disclosures as per IFRS and global group reporting instructions for various Diageo entities. The overarching aim is to provide accurate reporting by the team and the narrative behind figures. Key to success is continuing to build on our partnerships within Finance and with multiple stakeholders.

. Manage and accountable for the BFC financial reporting packs for Diageo entities and ensure balance sheet accounts reconciliations and GLAT management.

. Accountable for ensuring compliance with group reporting policies and procedures.

Role Responsibilities-

. Understand the various business movements and provide business insights for such moves to the teams and work with Finance colleagues to review and improve controls around the submitted numbers.

. Participate in the relevant Group Finance calls to ensure smooth execution of the process.

. Key interface between FC community and the Financial reporting team.

. Support internal / external audit.

. ensure balance sheet accounts reconciliations and GLAT management.

. Work with key stakeholders in Finance team, business and regulatory affairs and support projects and relevant updates to the database as a result of regulatory initiatives/ changes.

. Ensure smooth month end close as per global group reporting guidelines.

. Ensure compliance and adherence with all the relevant CARM controls applicable to the financial reporting team.

. Drive continuous improvement and automation agenda to improve service efficiency and maximise customer satisfaction

. Measure KPI's and Data Quality.

. Ensure high engagement - Train, coach, motivate and develop skills of the team.

Experience / skills required -

Operation Management

A good understanding of the Reporting Framework and Product, Risk and regulatory drivers of the businesses is preferred.

- Strong presentation skills, networking and communication skills (verbal and written)

- Advanced skills in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc)

- Working knowledge in a proprietary tool such as SAP, BFC, Power BI is preferred.

Other Work Experience

. Has deep understanding of the group financial reporting, accounting concepts, BS reconciliations, month close process, various RtR functions in order to ensure integrational thinking across the teams.

. Be able to work in a deadline driven environment.

. Excellent time management and influencing skills.

. Excellent communication skills in English

. Degree in Finance. Professionally qualified like CA/ CMA/CPA

. Excellent business partnering and stakeholder management skills

. Ability to communicate complex accounting ideas simply to a business audience and identify accounting implications of business issues.

. Superior analytical and problem solving skills

. Strong understanding of risk and controls

. Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently and set own agenda

. Personal ownership for issue resolution

. Curiosity for business issues

Flexible Working Statement-

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're

supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement- (TE)

Diversity statement-

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where

everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and

celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an

inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual

orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products

companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next

level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers

around the world.

Feel inspired Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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