Diageo

Job Description :

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 insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

We’re legal experts, understanding the sophisticated laws that surround our business and our much-loved brands. Our Legal team are responsible for a range of legal challenges, from Corporate and Intellectual Property to Merger & Acquisitions and Compliance.

We’re always seeking new and creative ways to take on the evolving challenges that today’s commercial world presents. Our dedicated colleagues around the world are not just outstanding lawyers but also brilliant communicators and advisors. Whatever your skill as a lawyer, your distinct and valuable perspective will be celebrated and nurtured in our inclusive culture.

About the role:

The Business Integrity team promotes and protects Diageo’s Spirit of Integrity through the design, implementation and monitoring of an effective, risk based, agile and future forward ethics and compliance program. The program is focused on bringing to life our overall performance ambition and must also meet, at a minimum, the best practice standards benchmarked against UK, US and local legislation. This includes maintaining and embedding our Code of Business Conduct (the Code) and an appropriate framework of policies and standards that support the Code; developing appropriate principles-based engagement and ensuring delivery of training to support the application of the Code and policies; investigating and responding to potential breaches of the Code and policies; assessing how to minimize compliance risks; and ensuring employees are aware of and feel comfortable using our whistleblowing channels.

Ethical behavior (‘doing business the right way from grain to glass’) is increasingly synonymous with a company’s overall sustainability, which makes it a crucial component of corporate governance. A breakdown or reduction in focus on this component could have serious legal, financial and/or reputational consequences for Diageo. You will act as business partner to the head of the business unit and its executive team to help them own, drive and handle their accountabilities related to ‘doing business in the right way’. You will act as second line of defense to your market, overseeing risk indicators and potential red flags; looking for insights and root causes for breaches; as well as advising on and coordinating interventions to mitigate risks.

Role Responsibilities:

• The role reports directly to Vice President, Americas Business Integrity with a dotted line into CCV and SLAC Managing Director
• Key business partner to all business leadership teams across CCV and SLAC operating units with exposure to both business unit and the regional executive team
• Primary partner to Global Audit & Risk team (internal audit)
• Influence and advise senior partners to maintain a strong tone-at-the-top, and reinforce accountability and awareness of the Business Integrity agenda.
• Shape the market’s culture of integrity, which includes proactive risk identification and developing plans to effectively embed our Code and policies through tailored engagement interventions.
• Act as trusted advisor across all levels of the organization to drive compliant behavior and provide decision support on controls, risk and compliance matters.
• In partnership with Business Integrity and the Learning & Development team, ensure proper delivery of risk-based training program on our Code, policies and standards, and monitor effectiveness of the same.
• Oversee the market’s breach management process (including publicizing channels, supporting investigations as assigned, undertaking remediation management, and evaluating the adequacy/consistency of breach consequences) and conduct a ‘root cause analysis’ to advise 'lessons learned' communications / engagement as needed.
• Facilitate risk management activities such as the consolidation of KRIs, coordinate periodic governance forums (i.e. RMCs), and oversee automatic monitoring / analytics to enable simplified and proactive management of risk.
• Use data related to compliance and the insights from such data to enable timely actions.
• Facilitate market’s governance (compliance, risk, controls), such as the tracking and reporting of remediations for identified deficiencies within agreed upon time periods, and supporting submissions to the ARC and FAC.
• Inform relevant partners as to impact of new regulations related to compliance and partner with Global Controls Assurance (GCA) as to business change projects (e.g., processes, systems, route to market): GCA will instruct as to controls implications and changes to the control framework, and BI will consult with GCA as to local market nuances and other compliance implications

Experience / skills required:

• Demonstrated, sustained experience in compliance and ethics, governance, enterprise risk management, and investigations. Leadership skills including confirmed business partnering and communication skills across a large global, public company. Demonstrate good judgement to raise issues to region and/or global partners when appropriate. Demonstrated and confirmed ability to influence senior management in large organizations.
• Highly motivated self-starter with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with senior business leaders and different teams across the organization.
• Seasoned leader with at least 12+ year experience with at minimum 8 years of experience in roles directly connected to compliance and ethics, governance, risk management and investigations – i.e. Big Four, Legal, and/or internal audit. CPG experience a plus though not required
• University degree or equivalent experience in Accounting, Finance, or related field and professional qualification(e.g. CPA, Law degree, or equivalent)
• Certification in corporate investigations preferred not required: Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Anit Money Laundering (CAMS), Certified Financial Crime Specialist (CFCS) or Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF)
• Cutting through ambiguity and complexity, a demonstrated ability to lead, drive and embed change across fast-paced and large multi layered matrix organizations
• Demonstrated brilliance in execution to impeccably high standards and deep personal accountability for great performance

Flexible Working Statement:

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

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

Rewards & Benefits Statement:

We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly driven 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 accept 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, approaches, 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 new heights 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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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Panama City

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-07-11