Financial Controlling Lead Analyst - GB

Job Title: Financial Controlling Lead Analyst - GB

Location: Budapest

Contract: Permanent

About Us

Financial Controlling team provides oversight on financial activities and controls including general accounting, management and external reporting and financial planning and analysis. The function 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. Other 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

Top Accountabilities

• Perform month end close responsibilities including journal entry preparation
• Support the reconciliation process (e.g. accounting guidance and ensuring proper backup information and data in alignment with PCAOB requirements)
• Ensure that financial and statutory processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding control procedures are strictly adhered to in line with the internal (CARM) and external requirements
• Understand, interpret, and implement Group Accounting and Reporting requirements, communicate requirements to the rest of the Financial Control Teams and to relevant teams in GBO
• Support the FAC process, provide analysis for the FAC completion

About You

• Degree educated in relevant finance / accounting / business
• Qualified accountant
• 4-5 years' experience in relevant area
• Experience working within an international / multicultural environment
• Exemplary Risk Management (Internal Controls, Managing Risk, Embedding Compliance & Ethics)
• Strong Financial Controlling knowledge (Balance sheet, Group and Local Financial Reporting, Accounting principles)
• Strong analytical skills to be able to see and understand the big picture and deliver high level message, offering alternative solutions for issues
• Adequate order and customer management experience
• Strong IT systems acumen
• Fluent English knowledge

Benefits

• Unique Family Leave opportunity
• We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world
• You will deal with world class brand portfolio
• Wide variety of thematic events, afterwork activities organized by employee communities
• Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop
• We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym
• Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar

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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Client-provided location(s): Budapest, Hungary

Job ID: Diageo-JR1122008

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-01-22T18:59:56