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Diageo Assistant Manager - Finance Experience-2 in Bangalore, India
Job Description :
Job Title: Assistant Manager - Finance Experience-2
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 ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About the Function:
Our Global Business Operations (GBO) team are facilitators, providing strategic, financial, and business services that are critical to the day-to-day performance of our business. With a team of over 2,000 dedicated and passionate people supporting 21 markets across the world, we have offices in Bangalore, Budapest, Bogota, and Manila.
Our global remit offers huge learning opportunities. We encourage learning and development in skills needed now and in the future across digital, industry, professional, and domain. Wherever you start, you’ll be rewarded with a world view and the recognition you deserve in our inclusive and supportive culture.
About the team:
About the role: (TE)
Market Complexity:
Diageo Global Business Operations the largest and most matured member of the network, provides various finance and accounting related activities and HR operations services to the relevant Diageo entities across the globe.
Leadership Responsibilities:
· Executional Understanding: Knows how to make things happen in immediate environment by using formal and informal channels.
· Driving change: Embraces change and takes ownership for driving initiatives in own area
· Positive Intent: Sustains a positive outlook across a range of situations. Encourages this in others.
· Effective communication: Summarises the fact and delivers the message using different communication styles according to the audience. Aware of impact they have on others.
· Prioritisation: Operates in determined and purposeful manner. Organises actions around key goals.
· Anticipates customers’ needs: Proactively looks to identify people’s needs from various sources. Truly anticipates people’s needs and manages expectations.
· Problem solving: Agrees a clear course of action in non-routine issues without support. Involves all related parties to resolve cross-functional issues.
Purpose of Role:
This Team will be responsible to produce and submit BFC reporting and disclosures as per IFRS and global group reporting instructions for various Diageo entities. The overarching aim is to provide accurate reporting by the team and the narrative behind figures. Key to success is continuing to build on our partnerships within Finance and with multiple stakeholders.
· Manage and accountable for the BFC financial reporting packs for Diageo entities and ensure balance sheet accounts reconciliations and GLAT management.
· Accountable for ensuring compliance with group reporting policies and procedures.
Top Accountabilities:
· Understand the various business movements and provide business insights for such moves to the teams and work with Finance colleagues to review and improve controls around the submitted numbers.
· Participate in the relevant Group Finance calls to ensure smooth execution of the process.
· Key interface between FC community and the Financial reporting team.
· Support internal / external audit.
· ensure balance sheet accounts reconciliations and GLAT management.
· Work with key stakeholders in Finance team, business and regulatory affairs and support projects and relevant updates to the database as a result of regulatory initiatives/ changes.
· Ensure smooth month end close as per global group reporting guidelines.
· Ensure compliance and adherence with all the relevant CARM controls applicable to the financial reporting team.
· Drive continuous improvement and automation agenda to improve service efficiency and maximise customer satisfaction
· Measure KPI’s and Data Quality.
· Ensure high engagement - Train, coach, motivate and develop skills of the team.
Qualifications and Experience Required:
Operation Management
A good understanding of the Reporting Framework and Product, Risk and regulatory drivers of the businesses is preferred.
- Strong presentation skills, networking and communication skills (verbal and written)
- Advanced skills in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc)
- Working knowledge in a proprietary tool such as SAP, BFC, Power BI is preferred.
Other Work Experience
· Has deep understanding of the group financial reporting, accounting concepts, BS reconciliations, month close process, various RtR functions in order to ensure integrational thinking across the teams.
· Be able to work in a deadline driven environment.
· Excellent time management and influencing skills.
· Excellent communication skills in English
· Degree in Finance. Professionally qualified like CA/ CMA/CPA
· Excellent business partnering and stakeholder management skills
· Ability to communicate complex accounting ideas simply to a business audience and identify accounting implications of business issues.
· Superior analytical and problem solving skills
· Strong understanding of risk and controls
· Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently and set own agenda
· Personal ownership for issue resolution
· Curiosity for business issues
Experience / skills required:
Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.
Rewards & Benefits Statement: (TE)
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 embrace 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, mindsets, 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 the next level 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:
Bangalore Karle Town SEZ
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2026-04-22
With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 29,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.
Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.
With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.
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