Finance Manager - Project Voyager - Maternity Cover for 2 years

About the function

The Digital & Technology vision is to lead the way in the transformation of Diageo business capabilities, leveraging data & digital technology, to create a competitive edge in the marketplace.

Diageo is embarking on an exciting and significant Business Transformation Programme underpinned by SAP S/4 HANA. Through this programme Diageo aims to drive process and data standardization and simplification. This programme will be delivered over a multi-year period with global geographic reach.

About the role

Voyager Programme is seeking for a Finance Manager who plays a critical role in supporting Diageo Voyager Programme Leadership team, providing world class programme financial management, reporting, insightful analysis on overall programme financial health & performance, effective management of opportunities and risks, and realization of benefits throughout a project's life cycle.

The Voyager Finance Manager is reporting to the Voyager Senior Finance Manager and will be responsible for the overall financial and budget management of the programme, leading on financial reporting in line with Diageo processes.

The purpose of the role is to be an agile and connected finance business partner to the Programme Leadership, who ensure risks, dependencies and opportunities impacting investment and benefit realization are managed effectively.

You will partner with Procurement, Source to Pay and Accounting teams to ensure smooth financial management of the Programme, as well as define and embed financial and benefit management tracking and reporting process for the Programme.

About you

If you have demonstrated ability in finance and project management, and would like to be part of the single biggest investment in technology in Diageo's history, we have the role for you!

What you'll bring

• University/College degree in business / finance / accounting

• 5+ years of experience in finance and project environment

• No financial accounting expertise is required, however understanding of the impact/correspondence of investments on the P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow is must

• Strong financial analysis skills and attention to details

• Strong use of Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP), and PowerPoint

• Great interpersonal skills with strong background in partner management

• Experience in Agile method and/ or PPM tools a great advantage

• Experience ow working with SAP / Planview

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

Flexibility

This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time and compressed hours. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Diversity statement

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 bring