Transition and Project Support at Diageo

Function

As the leading beverage alcohol company in every region of the world, we’re proud to be the custodians of globally-recognised names such as Baileys, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker. Join us and help secure the future success of some of the world’s most iconic brands. In Global Business Services our teams help each and every Diageo colleague across 180 countries to do their best possible work. Striving to make things easier for the rest of our teams, their roles could involve anything from financial controllership to statutory compliance, general accounting or business intelligence and analytics. There’s a wide range of roles and projects to get involved with, and the chance to be part of a truly global operation – we have 1,600 experts, working out of locations including Budapest, Bogota, Manila and Bengaluru. At Diageo, we’re united by our purpose of celebrating life, every day, everywhere. If you share our passion and want to make a positive impact across our business, there’s a rewarding career here for you.

About the role

Purpose

Successful delivery of the Africa Tax Embedment Project to deliver process mapping and gap identification project as per the set timelines.

This role sits in Global Tax and is responsible for supporting the Africa Tax Embedment project to deliver comprehensive tax process mapping – across all tax types - and gap identifications. Failure to deliver the project may lead to compliance failures resulting in financial and reputational exposure for Diageo.

Global Tax is responsible for delivering world class tax processes from both a compliance and business partnering perspective.  Africa represents a complex and dynamic region that requires additional support in building controlled and efficient tax processes.

Collaborating with other members of Global Tax and the wider finance community as required to deliver the successful delivery of the Africa Tax Embedment project.

1. Local Tax Managers
2. Global Tax Compliance CoE
3. GBO
4. Finance Controllers
5. Market Finance Directors

Accountabilities

• Work together with the relevant teams to build robust and comprehensive process documentation.
• Review the process mapping documentation and actively manage the process mapping workshops to capture the AS IS processes, the process gaps, risks and controls, document retention requirements
• Promptly identify and manage any emerging risk in relation to the project (timeliness or quality) and escalate these in due course to the senior management
• Ensure that consistent and quality deliverables are produced.

About You

Experience required/Skills/Capabilities/Languages

• Tax experience (Customs and Excise experience is welcome)
• Managing risk and dealing with enquiries and audits from tax authorities
• 4 years of experience within a Global Tax function in a global multinational company
• Examples of process efficieny/improvement mindset
• Effective project management and implementation skills
• Good team working and communication skills across diverse cultures

Benefits of working here

• 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

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.

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

Character Is Everything