Assistant Manager, Finance Operations

Job Description :

Job Title: Assistant Manager, Finance Operations

About the Function:

     Our Global Business Operations (GBO) team are facilitators, providing strategic, financial, and business services that are essential to the day-to-day performance of our business. With a team of over 2,000 dedicated and passionate people supporting 21 markets across the world, we have offices in Bangalore, Budapest, Bogota, and Manila.

Our global remit offers huge learning opportunities. We encourage learning and development in skills needed now and in the future across digital, industry, professional, and domain. Wherever you start, you’ll be rewarded with a world view and the recognition you deserve in our inclusive and supportive culture.

About the team:

About the role: (TE)

Job Level

5 Level 5

ROLE PROFILE

Job Title:

Team Lead – Financial Reporting

Reports To:

RTR – Senior Manager

Context/Scope:

Diageo’s Business Shared Services (DBS) aim to bring to bear Diageo’s Operating Model by supporting standard processes and systems with effective and efficient shared services across Diageo.

The Shared Services model currently supports Diageo Markets across the world and is responsible for Financial Control, Source to Pay, End to End Commercial and HR. It also encompasses a significant part of the group’s Financial Planning and Reporting and Treasury activities (Accounting, Control and Performance). Shared Services locations include Budapest, Bangalore, Bogota, Manila and Nairobi

As such DBSI is playing a key role in ensuring effective operation with minimum disruption to business in the Record to Report Work Stream

Purpose of Role:

• Directing a team of 5-8 involved in general ledger month end closing activities, financial reporting Balance Sheet Reconciliation, Provision/Accrual Posting, Fixed Asset accounting, Intercompany Accounting, Banking, reporting and audit support.
• Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of collaborators and Collaborates with project sponsors to resolve project scope and vision.
• Ability to interprets data and turns it into information which can offer ways to improve a business.

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Accountabilities

• Supervise performance and quality control plans to identify improvements.
• Developing and implementing data analyses, data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality
• Prepare and ensure review of balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation
• Establish and make sure proper accounting methods, policies and principles
• Coordinate and complete annual group and statutory audits
• Review and submit business unit reporting/review management reports
• Maintain rigorous controls across RTR  processes– CARM activity
• Maintain financial accounting process documentations.
• Maintain leading and lagging metrics and productivity data
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of client’s financial accounting policies and generally accepted accounting principles, internal control standards, and statutory reporting requirements, as this relates to General Accounting.
• Maintain a thorough awareness and understanding of client’s General Accounting and Reconciliation processes, closing calendars, and financial systems.
• Ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, records or processes associated with services provided.
• Develops good client relationships and good relations with the colleagues
• Lead Special Projects and Handle customer expectations
• Work with management to prioritize business and information needs

Qualifications and Experience Required:

Qualifications

• University graduate or equivalent experience, B Com , MBA (Finance) , CA/ICWAI (Preferred)

Experience

• 8-12 years of relevant work experience in F&A shared service organisation or any other industry.
• Team handling experience and should be currently working as a people manager for RTR.
• Customer care and team playing skills
• Candidates who worked up to finalization of accounts or assisted in finalization will be an added advantage
• Good exposure to finance and accounting processes
• Experience in month end financial reporting.
• Conversant with General ledger tasks in SAP application.

Crucial Skills:

• People and Senior Collaborator Management
• Experience in SAP
• Project Management Skills in F&A space
• Good in Advance Excel and PowerPoint.  Power BI experience will be an added advantage.
• Confirmed working experience as a Data Analyst or Business Data Analyst
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Good understanding of Indian Accounting
• Handling priorities and Working under stringent timelines
• Has Customer Focus to be able to build excellent relationships with relevant internal and external customers
• Hard working and flexible personality

Barriers to Success in Role (Optional):

Lack of RTR process knowledge

Team handling experience

Adapt readily to change, multitask, and work in a team

Experience / skills required: (TE)

Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement: (TE)

Diversity statement: Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We accept diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mapproaches and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. 

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Bangalore Karle Town SEZ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-02-12