Job Title: Financial Controlling Lead Analyst
Location: Budapest
Contract Term: Permanent, full time
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 role
The Financial Controlling Lead Analyst will support the team members with technical related questions and issues and report / advance matters to the Lead / Junior Managers within the area.
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- Ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes, the timely and accurate submission of the financial & statutory report.
- Give technical accounting support within their own field to the FC team,
- Partner with the RTR team to ensure the information in the legal entity financial documents accurately and completely reflects our business operations
- Support the decision making process with different financial controlling analysis,
- Ensure that the policies and procedures are understood and followed in the team and act as advisor to other GBO group function teams
- Perform month end close responsibilities including journal entry preparation, supports the reconciliation process (e.g. accounting mentorship and ensuring accurate backup information and data in alignment with PCAOB requirements)
- Prepare financial & statutory reports and supporting analysis
- Ensure that financial & statutory processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding control procedures are technically adhered to in line with the internal (CARM) and external requirements
- Understand, interpret, and implement Group Accounting and Reporting requirements; communicate requirements to the rest of the Financial Control team and to relevant teams in GBO
- Support the FAC process, provide analysis for the FAC completion
What you'll bring
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree
- Proven experience in Financial Controlling / Accounting / Statutory / Audit
- Qualified accountant
- 3-5 years' experience in relevant area
- Experience working within an international / multicultural environment
- Outstanding Risk Management (Internal Controls, Handling Risk, Embedding Compliance & Ethics)
- 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 solutions for issues
- 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
Inclusion & Diversity
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 outstanding contribution each person brings.
Character is everything.