Diageo

Job Description :

Job Title: Financial Controlling Junior Manager (Statutory) - French speaker

Location: Budapest

Contract: 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.

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.

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. 

• Support the Financial Controller to understand business operations and issues, ensure the financial implications of these are captured accurately in the financial and statutory statements 
• Ensure the information in the legal entity financial & statutory statements accurately and completely reflects our business operations 
• Give technical accounting guidance for different areas within the team and in the region
• Support the decision-making process with different accounting analysis, 
• Ensure that the policies and procedures are understood and followed in the team and act as advisor to other GBO group function teams 
• Support the internal and external audits 
• Perform month end close responsibilities including journal entry preparation (e.g., accounting mentorship and ensuring accurate backup information and data in alignment with PCAOB requirements) 
• Ensure that financial & statutory processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding internal control procedures are strictly adhered to in line with the internal (CARM) and external requirements, 
• Support the FAC process, provide analysis for the FAC completion 
• Provide the Financial Control team with technical accounting mentorship and act as the technical expert for of the Financial Controlling team 
• Understand, interpret, and implement Group Accounting and Reporting requirements; communicate requirements to the rest of the Financial Control team and to relevant teams in the market 

About you

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance / Accounting/ Business Administration 
• Qualified accountant, French GAAP knowledge is required
• 6-7 years’ experience in accounting/statutory area 
• Proficient English and French business language knowledge
• Experience working within an international / multicultural environment 
• Outstanding Risk Management (Internal Controls, Managing 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 alternative solutions for issues 

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

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Budapest

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2023-12-13