Job Title: Financial Controlling Junior Manager
Location: Budapest
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.
The scope
Financial Controlling and Analysis (FC&A) Teams are part of the Controllers Group and provides oversight on financial activities and controls including general accounting, management and external reporting and financial planning and analysis. The teams are 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.
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The role
The Financial Controlling Junior Manager will support team members with technical and with soft-skill related questions and issues and will be responsible to delegate work within the team, also will coordinate or liaise with people in different functions such as tax, group accounting when it comes to financial controlling, technical accounting matters.
Key responsibilities:
- Take full responsibility for the day-to-day management of the respective Profit and Loss / Balance sheet area from accounting, reporting and controlling perspective
- Support the Head of Financial Control to understand business operations and issues, ensure the financial implications of these are gained accurately in the financial and statutory statements
- Provide decision support for business partners through value add analysis, detailed understanding of movements on accounts, the business reason behind those, and collection and presentation of Risk & Opportunities
- Planning - Coordinate 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. Ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes.
- Ensure that the policies and procedures are understood and followed in the team and act as advisor to other market & group functional teams
- Give ideas, energy, passion and support to the continuous improvement of the process. Simplify and standardize processes across IOI market end-to-end.
- Ensure that financial processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding internal control procedures are closely adhered to in line with CARM processes
- Project leading of process initiatives and system development
- Lead and mentor other team members
- Support the internal and external audits
About you
- Degree educated in relevant finance / accounting/ business
- Qualified accountant
- 6-8 years of experience in accounting area
- Experience working within an international / multicultural environment
- 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 alternative solutions for issues
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Fluent English 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