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About You

We are looking for an individual who would like to kick off their career at a global function of a multinational company with plenty opportunities to grow and develop. We are looking for someone who has an ambition to work in Finance and has the curiosity and interest to get to know the field of Taxation in depth.

About the role

The purpose of this role is to ensure that the UK and ROI markets' direct tax processes (including CIT, TP and other supplementary returns) are undertaken accurately, efficiently (utilising automation and outsourcing where applicable) and on time and the surrounding internal control procedures, legislative requirements are adhered to.

The role will also be working closely with the Direct Tax Senior to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes as well as preparing balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring these are done on time and in an internal and external control compliant way. The responsibilities include actively leading tax document retention for your markets.

The role is encouraged to supply to the continuous improvement of the direct tax compliance processes as well as promptly responding to market queries in respect of markets in their responsibility and supporting direct tax leaders, business partners, SME-s in non-routine questions, projects, and during tax audits in their competency.

What you'll bring

• Qualified graduate economist (University or College degree in Economics, Finance or Accounting) with 0 - 1 year post qualification in finance/tax
• Experience at an operational level in tax, controls and risk management is an advantage
• Strong analytical and questioning skills
• Good numerical skills and confident excel usage
• Able to work with tight deadlines
• Attention to details and overview of the business: able to operate at the detailed level when necessary but always focuses on the big picture.
• Self-motivated and well organised approach to work
• Fluency in English

Benefits

• 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 statement

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!