Lead Financial Accountant

Senior Financial Controlling Analyst

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 Role

The Lead Financial accountant will support the team members with technical related questions and issues, also support people in different functions such as tax, group accounting when it comes to financial controlling, technical accounting matters.

Purpose of the Role:

• to ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes, the timely and accurate submission of the financial & statutory report
• to give technical accounting support within his/her own discipline to the FC team,
• partner with the RTR team to ensure the information in the legal entity financial statements accurately and completely reflects our business operations
• to support the decision-making process with different financial controlling analysis,
• to ensure that the policies and procedures are understood and followed in the team and act as advisor to other GBO group function teams
• to support internal and external audits
• to act as the company's liaison officer and statutory contact in Vietnam including signing off as Chief Accountant of the company

Key Accountabilities:

• Perform month end close responsibilities including journal entry preparation, supports the reconciliation process (e.g. accounting guidance and ensuring proper backup information and data in alignment with PCAOB requirements)
• Support delivery of monthly management reporting processes (various BPM reports, landing report, O&R, Extended WC and cash flow reporting and forecasting,) also prepare deck for the related review meetings
• Prepare financial & statutory reports and oversee the statutory adjustment and transfer pricing process
• Ensure that financial & 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 team and to relevant teams in GBO
• Support the FAC process, provide analysis for the FAC completion

Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Degree educated in relevant finance / accounting/ business
• Qualified accountant (CA or ACCA certified)
• 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 solutions for issues
• Strong command of the English language

Working with us

Flexibility is key to success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, and

we'll work together so that you're supported from day one.

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Job ID: Diageo-JR1118842

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-14T18:59:24