# Financial Accountant

**Company**: Diageo
**Location**: Bangalore
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

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

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## Skills

### Required
- financial accounting
- group reporting
- IFRS
- financial controls
- audit requirements

### Nice to have
- CA
- CPA
- ACCA
- CIMA
- MBA Finance

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