Vacancies at Diageo

About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Internal Audit Data Analyst to join our team. This role combines strong data analytics capabilities with internal audit methodology to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of our audit processes. You will be responsible for leveraging advanced data analytics tools, including Alteryx, Databricks and Power BI, to analyse large datasets, identify trends and anomalies, and provide data-driven insights to inform and improve our internal controls and risk management.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum of 6 - 8 years’ experience. Experience as an internal/ process/SOX auditor, risk management consulting, and business process improvement is preferred.
• A master's degree in a relevant field such as Data Analytics, Accounting, Finance (CA will be added advantage), Information Systems, or Computer Science.
• Proven hands-on experience with Alteryx/Databricks for data extraction, transformation, & workflow automation and creating interactive reports and dashboards using Power BI. (Certification will be added advantage)
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills to find out deeper insights, including root cause analysis, and ability to communicate findings in a structured way.
• Strong understanding of internal audit methodologies, risk assessment, and internal controls.
• Relationship management and business partnering skills – proven experience of building, developing, and sustaining relationships with operating management.
• Strong social skills and the ability to communicate optimally at all levels both internally and externally (written and verbal).

Areas of responsibility: Key accountabilities:

• Execute complex internal audit assurance reviews and ensure End to end project management (including timely delivery) in line with CARE’s ways of working (WoW) to provide assurance on the effectiveness of risk management and control procedures.
• Provide insights and solutions that promote effective and efficient business operations and IT governance, enhanced controls, and better risk management. Synthesise, analyse, and translate internal and relevant external data into meaningful insights and risk identification.
• Collaborate with internal audit teams and business partners to understand audit objectives and identify opportunities where data analytics can be applied to enhance audit effectiveness.
• Design, develop, and execute data analytics routines and repeatable workflows using Alteryx or Databricks to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various source systems, such as ERPs and databases.
• Create and maintain interactive dashboards, reports, and data visualizations using Power BI to communicate audit findings, risks, and trends to audit teams and senior management.
• Provide training and guidance to less experienced team members on data analytics tools and techniques.
• Support with relationship management for key elements of the business including CARE function. This includes engaging with stakeholders at all levels as a trusted business partner and supporting the embedding of governance, risk and compliance.  

Leadership Attributes Required: 

Win Through Execution

• Quickly Build strong relationships ‘on the ground’ with business partners.
• Deliver a strong performance as a team leader on key assignments. Demonstrate an understanding of business and process risks across multiple business areas.
• Empowered to articulate effective and efficient risk mitigation strategies. Demonstrate thorough and consistent knowledge and application of our WoW.
• Stay focused with a positive outlook, demonstrate rigour and brilliant execution.

Shape the Future

• Stay focused with a positive outlook, demonstrate rigour and brilliant execution.

Inspire Through Purpose

• Role model the Diageo values and culture (especially in relation to standards of controls and compliance) and demonstrate high standards of personal integrity to inspire others.
• Build and sustain trust with key business partners.

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Context/Scope:

• East African Breweries Limited (EABL) is committed to establishing itself as the world’s best performing, most trusted, and most respected consumer products company. Central to this ambition—and deeply embedded in our values—is an unwavering focus on our consumers and customers. This passion underpins our performance goals across every market in which we operate.
• As Consumer Planners at EABL, our purpose is to lead the total business with ideas and insights that drive growth. Our stakeholders expect us to consistently apply our distinctive capability to guide the organization in making strategic, commercially astute, and evidence-based decisions—responsive to the evolving realities of our consumers’ and customers’ lives.
• Our function is grounded in a philosophy of Planning that extends well beyond traditional research. We have built an industry-recognized reputation for thought leadership, shaping brand-building strategies and influencing the way marketing is executed across EABL.
• We are dedicated to attracting exceptional leaders and inspiring them to do the best work of their careers. Within the Consumer Planning community, we are committed to investing in our people—through capability building, coaching, and cultivating strong relationships internally, across functions, and with our agency partners.

Dimensions:

• The role of Consumer Planning manager involve consumer, market and innovation insights that inspire big, strategic & scalable ideas that drives sustainable growth in EABL -Kenya

Financial:

• Manage consumer planning  full year budget

Market Complexity:

• Kenya (East Africa Assignments)

Role Responsibilities:

• Externally curious
• Shows an interest in others’ drivers and motivators
• Encourages thoughtful risk taking
• Looks for opportunities for themselves and others to learn
• Reads the situation and uses breadth of influencing and interpersonal styles get the best out of them
• Amplifies EABL’s  purpose through their own actions
• Develops ambitious plans and brings clarity to others
• Proactive at engaging immediate stakeholders regularly, purposefully and without constant prompt
• Brings data into discussions in a relevant and insightful way. Is able to make clear recommendations based on the information
• Tries new ways and challenges complacency
• Is creative in solving problems

Accountabilities:

• Identify and articulate strategic opportunities for growth across brands, categories, and markets.
• Synthesize insights from diverse quantitative and qualitative data sources, connecting them in meaningful and actionable ways.
• Uncover deep consumer insights and translate them into implications that drive innovation and growth.
• Leverage measurement and evaluation findings to enhance the productivity of advertising and promotional investments in innovation.
• Prioritize resources rigorously, focusing on high-impact activities that deliver maximum value to the business, while delegating or discontinuing lower-value tasks.
• Influence business decisions effectively, ensuring they are grounded in consumer and shopper insights and aligned with commercial objectives.
• Challenge and inspire the organization by introducing consumer- and shopper-led provocations that drive meaningful change.
• Maintain external vigilance on cultural trends, market dynamics, and emerging forces to anticipate factors that may enable or constrain growth.
• Lead the Kenya planning team in identifying and pursuing innovative opportunities to accelerate recruitment across the total beverage alcohol portfolio.
• Enhance marketing investment effectiveness by embedding a culture of learning and applying world-class systems, tools, and capabilities.
• Build exceptional talent and capability within the Kenya team to secure the next generation of planning leadership, fostering individual and collective growth and creating sustainable long-term career paths at EABL.

Experience / skills required

• Bold, influential leader who are inspired by proactively shaping the business and future trends
• Deeply curious about consumers, shoppers, innovation, our brands and markets
• Immersed in culture and obsessive about harnessing it
• Innovative and creative but also intellectually rigorous in the thinking - a master of both the art and the science of Planning                                                        
• Truly collaborative, a key team player but an objective voice of reason
• An industry thought leader and agitator
• Extensive and proven experience in multi-market, complex environments.
• Insatiable curiosity for understanding consumers and the world they exist in, with evidence in applying this to drive brand growth
• An individual who has the ability to influence across senior levels in the Category and Brand Communities
• 7+ years relevant experience in research related fields
• Master’s degree in data science or any other related field
• Proficiency in Data handling and manipulation tools: Power BI as minimum base requirement