Financial Control Coordinator - Accountant

Job Title: Financial Control Coordinator - Accountant

Location: Bogotá, Colombia

About Diageo:

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of "celebrating life every day everywhere". This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

About the role:

Day-to-day management of the respective Profit and Loss / Balance sheet area from accounting, reporting and controlling perspective

Support key financial controlling processes: month-end and period-end closes, journal entry preparation, financial statement preparation and review, critical metric and data quality monitoring, balance sheet review preparation, adherence to CARM controls

Support in the monitoring and control of COGS in all manufacturing processes, finding opportunities and mitigating financial and control risks

Control CAPEX down payments and ensure their correct recording

Supervise the submission of all of the reports for the legal entities under the position scope, timely and with quality

Coordinate the attendance of external auditors and third parties and make sure all relevant information requested is timely and dully provided and supported to achieve outstanding results on any audit settlement

Evaluate and plan the execution of Supply Financial and market controls, ensuring the proper functioning of the internal control system

Promotes compliance with monthly and fiscal year closing schedules and specific projects in the finance area

Identify and implement operational improvements to improve efficiency, effectiveness, controls, compliance and adherence to global standards and procedures

Accomplish with monthly and fiscal year closing schedules and specific projects in the finance area.

Keep Process Documentation actualized and accurate

About you:

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

demonstrated ability in a multinational corporate environment

Financial Accounting / Reporting, and/or Financial Controlling experience

Accounting standards (IFRS, Mexican GAAP, etc..) experience

Internal / external audit experience and/or SOX

Business experience and understanding

Experience in audit companies (Desirable)

Experience in a Shared services environment is considered as an advantage

Improved senior collaborator management and influencing skills

Good understanding of the financial controlling processes (Balance sheet, Financial Reporting, Accounting principles)

Internal / external audit experience and/or SOX

Good Risk Management (Internal Controls, Managing Risk, Compliance & Ethics)

Excellent knowledge in IFSR

Knowledge of ERP SAP FI

Performance orientation and problem solving

Ability to manage expectations both from team and collaborators

Deeply knowledge of Microsoft applications such but no limited to Power BI, etc.

Language skills

High level of the English language (spoken and written)