Financial Accountant

You will be responsible for owning financial integrity for assigned Diageo entities by reviewing Trial Balance, Balance Sheet GLs and P&L, and ensuring entity results are accurate, compliant and audit-ready.

Key accountabilities:

• Review entity TB during month-end, quarter-end and year-end close; investigate unusual movements, misclassifications and open items.
• Manage Balance Sheet GLs for group reporting, ensuring reconciliations, substantiation, aging and movement explanations are complete.
• Review P&L results, validate accruals/reclasses and provide clear commentary to P&L owners on material variances.
• Act as key contact for Group Reporting on submissions, schedules, reporting queries and variance analysis.
• Coordinate external audit for assigned entities, including evidence review, query resolution and audit action closure.
• Review outputs from process operations teams such as R2R, AP, AR, Intercompany, Fixed Assets and other finance processes to ensure compliant accounting.
• Identify control gaps and drive remediation, root-cause fixes and process improvements.

Required experience and skills:

• Strong experience in financial accounting, group reporting, TB review, Balance Sheet control and P&L analysis.
• Sound knowledge of IFRS, financial controls and audit requirements.
• Able to review reconciliations, journals, schedules and financial commentary with strong attention to detail.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, challenge and influencing skills.
• Experience working with shared services/process operations and tight close timelines.

Qualifications:

• CA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA, MBA Finance or equivalent preferred; degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or a related discipline required with 7 to 11 years of experience