Internal Controls Manager

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 outstanding level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we’re utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to advise our business strategy or crafting 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.

About the team:

Key collaborators:

• Heads of Categories and Functions, Site Operational Directors, Finance Directors/Controllers, Governance Managers.  Collaborate with a wide range of business partners to ensure robust and effective internal control environment to deliver on commercial and operational objectives.

• Global BI Team – will be a key partner with regards to risk management across the market/function and governance where controls mitigate risks

• CARE - Controls Assurance:  maintain an effective and open line of communication with Diageo’s controls assurance team to ensure strong collaboration and shared findings. You are the point of escalation should gaps are identified and mitigations required

• Auditors - maintain an effective and open line of communication with Diageo’s internal/external auditors regarding key decision points, risks, gaps and mitigations. Ensure actions are closed timely with evidence

About the role:

The role is responsible for supporting in the implementation of a robust controls agenda and uphold compliance requirements in alignment with the Supply Chain & Procurement business strategy and objectives. The role requires the implementation of internal controls relevant for the business and ensures controls are embedded into the day-to-day activities and consistently applied. It serves as the frontline defence in identifying and handling control gaps in processes, procedures and operations before they advance.

Role Responsibilities:

• To raise awareness of internal control objectives

• Ensure controls are embedded in day-to-day procedures and are consistently applied.

• Identify opportunities for automation to enhance efficiency and effectiveness, thereby reducing risks.

• Supervise emerging risks and trends to ensure timely and appropriate controls are in place

• Implement internal controls within business processes (local specific controls which are not covered by Diageo’s Global Control Framework).

• Lead spot checks, deep dives on risk areas, as required by management or as issues arise. Investigate control gaps, implement corrective actions timely and supervise remediation to prevent recurrence.

• Supervise the effectiveness of controls through key indicators.

• Ensure that control owners update their controls and procedures, in response to changes in business or local regulatory requirements.

• Proactively find opportunities to strengthen or redesign internal controls

• Bring up issues, control failures, or emerging risks to line management.

• Work closely with second-line functions (GCA team) to align on control standards, compliance expectations, control scoping, deficiencies and remediation actions.

• Support the controls team (CARE) in their scoping & testing. You will be the blocking issue point when controls fail so that you support the business with training and remediation to prevent future failures.

• Oversee the execution of external auditors (PwC) audit programme in substantive and controls testing

• Promote a strong control culture within the team by coaching when needed.

• Present a high level summary to senior collaborators showing them results from control testing, audits, deep dive etc.

Experience / skills required:

• Chartered Accountant or MBA Finance, CIA/CMIIA or a relevant audit qualification

• 8+ years in Risk and Controls profile in Big 4 or FMCG or related manufacturing industry. 

• External/Internal Audit experience.

• Experience in Financial Reporting, SOX, and related control.

• Proficient English (mandatory)

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, approaches, 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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