Costing Analyst

Job Title: Costing Analyst

Contract: permanent

Location: Budapest

About Us

Diageo's operation in Budapest has been established for more than 15 years. During this time it has grown to have an employee base of more than 1000 people (around one third of all Finance people in Diageo) providing services relating to the End to End Commercial, Financial Controlling (including financial controlling for Supply) and Business Performance Management processes.

As part of Global Supply Chain and Procurement department (GSC&P) provides oversight on financial activities and controls including general accounting, management and external reporting and financial planning and analysis. The tower is responsible for the interpretation of financial and statutory data, the coordination and management of financial and statutory reporting, the management of the P&L and balance sheet delivering solutions that will increase insight and transparency. Tower responsibilities also include ensuring there is a true and fair representation of business performance at the cut-off point for the period and transparency on financials for Business Performance Management.

About the Role

Purpose of the Role

The purpose of the role is to provide Costing support for both the annual SKU reset and ongoing brand change/innovation projects from indicative costings through to final product costing, applying a high attention to detail to ensure the integrity of costing data and the accuracy of the product cost.

Top Accountabilities

• Provision of indicative costings - supporting project managers with indicative costings projects, ensuring accurate calculation of product costs, overheads, depreciation etc. for gatekeeper decision making purposes.
• New SKU Costing - Following gate sign-off, costing the product in SAP, liaising with the brand change community and BTP teams to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the SKU cost in SAP and finance Costing tracker.
• Run monthly ML closing cycle
• Support the annual SKU cost reset process by ensuring the process is completed in a timely and accurate manner
• Standardisation / Simplification - in collaboration with other costing colleagues, simplifying and standardising costing processes into a single way of Costing.

About You

• University or College degree in Economics or Finance and Accounting

• Costing and/or Financial Planning & Analysis, and/or Financial Controlling experience is advantage
• 3-4 years experience in relevant area
• Basic accounting knowledge
• Strong Excel knowledge
• Fluent English knowledge

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 recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

• [Recruiter to list relevant market/region benefits].

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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Client-provided location(s): Budapest, Hungary

Job ID: Diageo-JR1118517

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-20T18:54:03