AVP, Financial Reporting

Job Description :

Job Title: AVP, Financial Reporting

About the Function:  

Our Global Business Operations (GBO) team are facilitators, providing strategic, financial, and business services that are crucial to the day-to-day performance of our business. With a team of over 2,000 dedicated and passionate people supporting 21 markets across the world, we have offices in Bangalore, Budapest, Bogota, and Manila.

Our global remit offers huge learning opportunities. We encourage learning and development in skills needed now and in the future across digital, industry, professional, and domain. Wherever you start, you’ll be rewarded with a world view and the recognition you deserve in our inclusive and supportive culture.

About the team: (TE)

About the role:

This Team will be responsible to produce and submit BFC reporting and disclosures as per IFRS and global group reporting instructions for various Diageo entities for Supply & Africa. The overarching aim is to provide accurate reporting by the team and the narrative behind figures. Key to success is continuing to build on our partnerships within Finance and with multiple collaborators.

• Handle and accountable for the BFC financial reporting packs for all Diageo entities for Supply & Africa region and ensure balance sheet accounts reconciliations and GLAT management.

• Interact with senior finance Supply & Africa collaborators and agree upon the various accounting plan related to various month end close adjustments related to stocks, cash, inter-company transactions, etc.

• Build strong relationships with Supply & Africa collaborators across FC, RFCs, Business Finance teams and other risk and control functions outside of Finance.

• Accountable for ensuring compliance with group reporting policies and procedures.

• Directing a team of regional leads and entity owners

Role Responsibilities:

Dimensions

Financial:

Financial reporting team is part of the finance controllership function. Its main responsibility is to support the preparation, review and publish the entity wise BFC financial packs for the various entities within the respective regions in accordance with the group reporting timelines.

The team is involved in various ongoing projects to drive efficiency, standardization, simplification and automation within the service delivery team.

Market Complexity:

Diageo Global Business Operations the largest and most matured member of the network, provides various finance and accounting related activities and HR operations services to the relevant Diageo entities across the globe.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Executional Understanding: Knows how to make things happen in immediate environment by using formal and informal channels.

• Inspiring change: Accepts change and takes ownership for driving initiatives in own area

• Positive Intent: Sustains a positive outlook across a range of situations. Encourages this in others.

• Relationship Building: Builds good relationship with colleagues and customers by helping people feel appreciated and involved.

• Coaching Completion: Has valuable insights about others and is comfortable providing coaching and feedback to help colleagues perform to their best.

• Effective communication: Summarises the fact and delivers the message using different communication styles according to the audience. Aware of impact they have on others.

• Prioritisation: Operates in driven and purposeful manner. Organises' actions around key goals.

• Anticipates customers’ needs: Proactively looks to identify people’s needs from various sources. Truly anticipates people’s needs and handles expectations.

• Problem solving: Agrees a clear course of action in non-routine issues without support. Involves all related parties to resolve cross-functional issues.

Top 3-5 Accountabilities:

• Understand the various business movements in Supply & Africa and provide business insights for such moves to the teams and work with Supply & Africa Finance colleagues to review and improve controls around the submitted numbers.

• Act as a deputy to Financial reporting – to VP and support Supply & Africa

• Participate in the relevant Group Finance calls to ensure smooth execution of the process.

• Key interface between Supply & Africa FC community and the Financial reporting team.

• Support Supply & Africa internal / external audit.

• Work with key Supply & Africa collaborators in Finance team, business and regulatory affairs and support projects and relevant updates to the database as a result of regulatory initiatives/ changes.

• Ensure smooth month end close as per global group reporting guidelines.

• Ensure compliance and adherence with all the relevant CARM controls applicable to the financial reporting team.

• Drive continuous improvement and automation agenda to improve service efficiency and maximise customer satisfaction

• Measure KPI’s and Data Quality.

• Ensure high engagement - Train, coach, empower and develop skills of the team.

Experience / skills required:

People Management

• Ability to make decisions, influence and drive others and work in a collaborative manner and find resolutions to potential conflict.

• The ability to simplify and explain sophisticated issues to other colleagues, including senior management.

• The ability to work in a constantly evolving environment with colleagues across multiple locations and cultures.

• Good people management and interpersonal skills.

Operation Management

• A good understanding of the Reporting Framework and Product, Risk and regulatory drivers of the businesses is preferred.

• Strong presentation skills, networking and communication skills (verbal and written)

• Advanced skills in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc)

• Working knowledge in a proprietary tool such as SAP S4, BFC, Power BI is preferred.

• Professional Qualifications – CA / CMA / CPA / Master's Degree in Commerce

Other Work Experience

• Has deep understanding of the group financial reporting, accounting concepts, reconciliations, month close process, various RTR functions in order to ensure integration thinking across the teams.

• Be able to work in a deadline driven environment.

• Excellent time management and influencing skills.

• Excellent communication skills in English

• Degree in Finance. Expertly qualified like CA/ CMA/CPA

• Excellent business partnering and collaboratorleadership skillss

• Ability to communicate sophisticated accounting ideas simply to a business audience and identify accounting implications of business issues.

• Superior analytical and problem solving skills

• Strong understanding of risk and controls

• Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently and set own agenda

• Personal ownership for issue resolution

• Curiosity for business issues

Barriers to Success in Role (Optional):

• Inability to work as part of a team

• Lack of personal motivation/drive

• Lack of holding to account for own performance

• Lack of control (CARM) compliant behaviour

Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our 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 so that you’re supported from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement: (TE)

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 accept 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 the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Bangalore Karle Town SEZ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-11-06