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Financial Accounting Lead

AT Diageo
Diageo

Financial Accounting Lead

Shanghai, China

Financial Accounting Lead

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.

About the Function

Finance

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.

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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

Controlling functions are carried out smoothly and as expected. Provides the business not just regular and standard reports but creates and initiates transparent, value-adding and meaningful reporting that enables the business to address, improve and maintain best practices in supply operations. Reviews the Trial Balance and P&L and makes sure that the balances are compliantly recorded.

This includes management reports and analytics that feed into Execs (Supply Director) and key decision makers (Head of Move, Make etc), members of Finance Leadership Team and Global Supply Community to ensure that they are abreast with the current business performance and focus on the right areas are maintained and issues are escalated and resolved timely.

About the role

Plays a very important role in the asset accounting through tight working relationship with project managers and the accounting team, also leading the annual fixed asset validation exercise.

Role Responsibilities

This role is responsible for leading the statutory audit cycle and to support the tax submission.

Month end reporting
  • Run aged PO report and assist PO owners with the right PO housekeeping
  • Collect and submit capitalization requests from project managers / engineering team
  • GL action item review to ensure a healthy balance sheet
  • Provide accruals to the RtR team for processing
  • Review Trial Balance and ensure the recorded overheads are correct in terms of value and compliance


Performance review with Financial Director
  • Monthly Trial Balance and P&L review about the month-on-month movements
  • Quarterly Financial Statement Review
  • Annual Statutory Financial Statement Review, including audit findings


Environment, Social, Governance (ESG)
  • Monthly consolidation, validation and system submission
  • Annual plan submission


SKU reset and standard costing
  • Activity rate validation and standard cost reset for the locally produced products


Experience / skills required

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

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

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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Client-provided location(s): Shanghai, China
Job ID: Diageo-JR1107593
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • Pension
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Woman founded/led

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