FX Strategy Senior Analyst

Job Description :

Job Title: FX Strategy Senior Analyst

Location: Budapest

Contract Term: Permanent

From pioneers like Arthur Guinness, John Walker and Elizabeth Cumming, to the digital disrupters already shaping our future, at Diageo, we’ve never stopped looking forward. We’re continuing to build on our heritage and, with eCommerce at the heart of everything we do, we’re creating our legacy for tomorrow! Join us and explore new ways ahead with digital sales channels, consumer insight and data. As you help us to keep shaking up the market with industry-leading solutions, you’ll transform your career too! 

About us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life.

About the role

The Budapest based FX Strategy team forms part of the FX Risk management group, which also includes the Transaction FX team. It is a team of 4 who are mainly responsible for establishing and maintaining the FX Strategy of the entire Group and they are also responsible for managing translational FX Risk by coordinating Group net investment hedging and managing short term balance sheet FX exposures.

The purpose of this role is to support the FX Strategy Junior Manager & FX Strategy Manager in analysis, hedging, activities in respect of Translational FX exposures and Treasury projects for the Group, also to maintain an appropriate control environment. Other accountabilities include:

• Monitoring and managing short term balance sheet FX exposures

• Supporting FX Strategy Junior Manager & FX Strategy Manager with analyses on Group-level net investment exposures

• Assessing the FX implication and advise on the most efficient treatment of tax and treasury projects.

• Driving process simplification/efficiency, finding solutions and bring them into live

• Ensuring that a robust control environment exists and ensure compliance with accounting standards & internal policies / guidelines

What you’ll bring

• University/College degree preferably in economics / finance / accounting

• Strong analytical and spreadsheet modelling skills

• Previous work experience in a finance team

• Experience in accounting area is not a must but preferable

• SAP knowledge is not a must but preferable

• Fluent English language skills

• Pro-active: questions and seeks to understand their own area and its impact

• Interprets complex data and communicates findings in a clear and concise manner

• Strives to increase efficiency and effectiveness in their work processes while maintaining an appropriate control environment

• Strives to understand the “bigger picture”, and the economic/other consequences of their work

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 standar