Internal Controls Manager

About Us:

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to build a career worth celebrating.

Which company will you join?

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one’s talent and personality.

Internal Controls:

• Partner with financial and operational management to optimize the internal control environment and risk mitigation activities.
• Lead and deliver advisory reviews for strategic projects and risk areas to ensure internal controls are crafted, implemented, and operating effectively.
• Be a great partner with customers in the region and influence leadership to maintain a strong tone-at-the-top and reinforce accountability and awareness of internal controls.
• Perform a continuous risk assessment of the region.
• Provide an expert assessment of process and controls effectiveness.
• Provide training on process, risks, and controls to the business.
• Support Global Controls Assurance on annual CARM (Sox) planning.
• Conduct testing and evaluation of Non-Sox testing and control self-assessments.
• Document findings and work with business divisions to design corrective actions as needed.
• Support management on the integration of new business entities
• Support the embedding of internal controls for Brand Homes

Management Responsibility:

• Reports to Director of Internal Controls
• Key business partner to all business leadership teams (Demand and Supply)
• Support to our Global Audit & Risk, Global Controls Assurance teams and external auditors

Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Technical expertise in internal controls and audit practices including expertise in risk and control frameworks, financial policies and procedures, process and internal controls leading practices and best in class compliance practices.
• Leadership skills including validated business partnering and communication skills across a large global, public company.
• Experience as a finance leader managing a diverse, cross-functional, and matrixed organization. Additional experience as a compliance/ethics/business integrity leader is preferred.
• Highly motivated self-starter with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with senior business leaders and different teams across the organization.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• 6+ years of progressive experience in Big Four, internal controls and