Location: Budapest

Contract type: Permanent

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 function

Financial Control is currently our biggest function in Hungary supporting Europe, North-America and Africa.

About the role

The Financial Controlling Lead Analyst supports the Financial Controller and the market, coordinates and supervises activities of FC analyst within the team and supports/ coordinates other departments. Will support the market/other departments with technical related questions and issue resolution, also support people in different functions such as tax, group accounting when it comes to Financial Controlling, technical accounting matters.

Key accountabilities

• Support key Financial Controlling processes: month end and period end closes, journal entry preparation, financial statement preparation and review, KPI and data quality monitoring, balance sheet review preparation, adherence to CARM controls

• Support that statutory and management reporting for the legal entities within the scope of the role is completed accurately, on time and in line with internal and external controls.

• Prepare year-end statutory adjustments and transfer pricing reports with the relevant stakeholders in the market and in Group.

• Support the FAC process, provide analysis for the FAC completion

About You

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance, business, or accounting

• 3-4 years’ experience in relevant area

• Excellent business English knowledge

• Good Risk Management (Internal Controls, Managing Risk, Embedding Compliance & Ethics)

• Strong Financial Controlling knowledge (Balance sheet, Group and Local Financial Reporting, Accounting principles)

• Strong analytical and technical skills

• Ability of building and sustaining close working relationships and influencing Senior management

Benefits Working here

• Opportunity to climb up on the career ladder

• We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym

• Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar

• Easy to reach downtown location

• Our unique brands are available in our staff shop

• We live our values and color our lives

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 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.