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Diageo Financial Control Sr. Analyst - Secondment: 6 months in Bogota, Colombia
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 ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About The Function
Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We’re part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.
Whether we’re utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future — no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we’ll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.
The Financial Control function plays a critical and highly influential role within the organization, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our financial information, which directly impacts strategic decision-making and overall business success. As the guardians of financial accuracy, this team is responsible for preparing detailed financial statements for both management and local reporting, ensuring compliance with the highest standards and regulations. By managing internal and external audits, the Financial Control team supports transparency and accountability across the organization.
Joining Diageo’s Shared Service Center means becoming part of a global function where innovation, professional development, and the opportunity to make a real impact are at the forefront.
About the role:
Perform monthly and annual closing routines, ensuring compliance with the company's schedule as well as disclosure deadlines;
Prepare explanations of the biggest variations occurring in the month and year; striving classification errors;
Preparation of accounting reconciliations of balance sheet accounts and their variations in respect to to year over year and month over moth;
Make accounting records when needed;
Commercial acumen to accounting process management and analysis;
Carry out analysis of ongoing commercial plans, checking with financial reports, purchasing department and legal documents, in order to maintain the reliability of the balance sheet;
Follow-up of reconciliation issues with the responsible areas.
Delivery of internal controls relevant to its activities as bridge explanation of management books in English;
Support for external and internal audits, preparing information, explanations and collecting documentation;
Support in business projects such as: changes or adaptation of legislation, ensuring that accounting classification standards and procedures are being followed;
Assistance in delivering documentation for inspections;
Identification and develop improvement processes and systemic implementations regarding management reports;
Review of the chart of accounts and accounting scripts under its scope;
Accounting support for other areas, Management and Board of Directors
Understanding and supervising Headquarters policies, ensuring full services
Carry out other activities related to your role and work process procedures, as vital;
Know and align with the company's internal procedures and code of ethical conduct;
Develop, maintain and align with the area's procedures and work instructions;
Role Responsibilities:
Preparation, analysis and delivery of working capital analysis of trade spend, campaigns legalizations.
Preparation of monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
Preparation of monthly reporting schedules for financial statements global consolidation purposes.
Supporting external and internal audits, preparing information, explanations and collecting documentation.
Preparing information for requests and reports from stakeholders within the organization.
Analysis and preparation of reports, and monitoring of the implementation of commercial investment in A&P from the perspective of balance sheet figures, as well as initiatives to improve performance and efficiency in the market.
Preparation of ad hoc local and corporate requirements.
Analysis and recognition of inter-company royalties.
Execution of SOX controls.
Assistance in preparation of documentation required for inspections of Government entities.
Analysis of P&L items below operating profit, identifying significant variations and trends.
Supporting the development of internal market policies, ensuring they are properly designed and implemented, and complying with accounting standards at both corporate and local levels.
Experience / skills required:
Degree in Accounting Sciences
Experience with Accounting practices adopted for multinational companies (Local GAAP and IFRS)
Experience in preparing closing reports
Have worked with SAP - FI and CO modules
Advanced office package
Knowledge of Tax legislation
English: Advanced
Minimum 5 years experience
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re
supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Rewards & Benefits Statement:
We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive 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 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 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:
Bogota - EOB
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2026-03-20
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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