Senior Risk & Controls Specialist

Job Description :

Job Title : Senior Risk&Controls Specialist

Location: Budapest

Contract: Permanent

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 create a career worth celebrating.

About the role

Senior Risk & Controls Specialist role is to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance through Global Control Assurance and Risk Management processes. Main responsibilities of the role are:

• To support the Control & Audit compliance agenda within Diageo Business Shared Services

• To support the Management in delivering best-in-class control environment, increase control and compliance awareness and coordinate / ensure smooth delivery of internal control procedures.

• Provide management support during internal (GAR) and external audit (PWC)

The overall purpose of the role to provide control oversight and SOX governance over Diageo’s business shared services and support the Management in delivering best-in-class control environment, increase control and compliance awareness and coordinate / ensure smooth delivery of internal control procedures.

What you'll bring

• Experience of working with SOX

• Good understanding of Audit lifecycle from planning to reporting and closure of recommendations

• Perform Design Assessment and effectiveness testing of controls in a manner that reflects the highest professional standards.

• Timely and effective communication of the key messages/outcomes/issues to all stakeholder levels

• Support and track, monitor and validate completion of audit observations and control deficiency remediation. Actively participate and add value in assessing management response and remediation actions for impacted controls.

• Review and query addressal of the team members.

• Good verbal and written communication skills with ability to present and interact effectively with all levels of management.

• Ability to work independently and efficiently to meet deadliness in line with CARM guidance. Support team members to meet the deadlines

• Prior experience with BIG 4 will be an added advantage

• Preferred working experience with major ERPs

• Proficient in MS Applications (MS word, MS Excel, PPT, VISIO)

• Exposure to some of the following areas could be an advantage:

• 1/Process improvement, 2/project management, 3/risk assessment, 4/IFRS,5/ SAP

• Prilim LEAN/Six Sigma knowledge

• Draw insights from the analytics

• Middle Mgt stakeholder engagement skill

• Good knowledge of SAP

• Solutioning mindset

Benefits of working here

• Outstanding Family Leave opportunity

• We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world

• You will deal with extraordinary brand portfolio

• Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop

Inclusion & Diversity

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 outstanding contribution each person brings!

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. 

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Budapest

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-02-20