Diageo

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Partner with Brand and Category teams to improve decision quality and optimize investment allocation
• Support strategic and financial objectives through robust analysis, financial insight and influential business partnering
• Translate global category strategy into financial plans and challenge investments to ensure sustainable value creation
• Evaluate investment opportunities, business cases and strategic initiatives
• Develop financial plans, forecasts and robust financial outcomes from category, brand and strategic priorities
• Analyze and challenge A&P investment, innovation initiatives and portfolio decisions to maximize return on investment
• Identify risks, opportunities and investment trade-offs
• Support resource allocation and investment reallocation decisions throughout the year
• Manage budgets through forecasting, tracking and insight generation

Commercial Finance, Internal Controls

Manager

• Lead professionals as an individual contributor
• Apply in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge within own discipline
• Integrate knowledge of related disciplines and best practices
• Act as a resource for other team members
• Lead projects with limited risks and resource requirements
• Solve complex problems by taking new perspectives on existing solutions
• Analyze multiple sources of information and exercise judgment
• Impact activities within own and related teams
• Explain complex, difficult and/or sensitive information
• Build consensus
• Plan and manage core financial processes, including credit control, cash management, banking operations, incoming and outgoing payments, and internal allocations

Manager – Order Enquiries, Resolution

• Lead and oversee preparation and review of U.S. federal corporate income tax returns, including Form 1120 and related forms, schedules, elections, and disclosures
• Manage the annual federal income tax compliance calendar and filing, payment, and documentation requirements
• Oversee federal taxable income calculations, book-to-tax adjustments, tax attributes, and supporting workpapers
• Manage federal estimated tax payments, extensions, and related cash tax calculations
• Coordinate federal tax return processes with internal teams and external tax advisors
• Integrate federal compliance with state, international, and transfer pricing tax functions
• Develop and maintain forecasts of U.S. federal cash tax payments and communicate changes, risks, and opportunities
• Lead ASC 740 income tax provision processes, including current and deferred tax calculations and return-to-provision adjustments
• Review uncertain tax positions and supporting technical analysis and documentation
• Perform ETR analyses and manage ETR forecasting
• Support tax planning, business transaction evaluations, IRS examinations, and tax controversy matters
• Identify and implement improvements, standardization, and automation in federal tax compliance processes
• Enhance tax technology, data analytics, process documentation, and SOX controls
• Serve as a U.S. federal income tax compliance resource to Tax and other business functions
• Manage external auditor relationships, external advisors, team members, and related deliverables
• Communicate complex tax matters to tax and non-tax stakeholders

Senior Manager – Federal Tax Compliance

Strategy

• Partner with Diageo North America business domain leaders to understand strategic objectives, opportunities, competitive positioning, and cost/growth targets
• Report and manage the overall North America transformation agenda, connecting initiatives across functions and tracking KPIs, business outcomes, timelines, and progress
• Evaluate and execute Diageo’s Global Business Services participation in the North America transformation agenda
• Facilitate structured discovery sessions and capture NAM and GBS requirements throughout the solutions development lifecycle
• Translate business strategy and requirements into value propositions and initiative roadmaps
• Design end-to-end GBS process, policy, and organization architectures using standardized and scalable constructs
• Lead overall solution architecture across business architecture, technology architecture, and operational capabilities
• Define solution/service scope, client experience blueprints, processes and controls, technology architecture, operating model and governance, service lifecycle, SLA/OLA frameworks, compliance, delivery model, and business case components
• Support business case development, including cost structures and investment requirements
• Use data and analytics to drive transformation decisions, measure value realization, and provide actionable insights through executive dashboards, KPI scorecards, and business performance reporting
• Identify impacts and opportunities from emerging industry and technology trends
• Drive standardization, automation, and continuous process improvement

Business Strategy – Transformation Lead

People Operations

• Provide responsive, practical people-related advice to people managers
• Ensure consistent and fair application of HR policies
• Lead day-to-day employee matters and build manager capability to prevent and resolve issues
• Manage informal and formal individual employee cases up to defined complexity
• Ensure case consistency, documentation, and appropriate escalation or consultation with specialist Employee Relations resources
• Support HR Business Partners with local execution of business change requirements
• Implement global tools and programmes with appropriate local nuances
• Advise managers on sick absence management, performance improvement plans, and standard redundancy or exit processes
• Advise on non-standard or complex policy application queries
• Identify case trends and provide local insights for process improvements
• Support delivery of people manager capability-building and guidance
• Support the HR transformation and change management process

People Advisor

Procurement

• Act as a change agent driving global category strategies across commercial performance and sustainability objectives
• Build, develop and apply expertise across one or more spend categories
• Serve as a subject matter expert and share knowledge across the global Procurement community
• Lead market intelligence, category insights, global strategies and sourcing activities
• Build relationships with stakeholders, suppliers and partners to deliver value
• Support global category strategy development through requirements gathering, market analysis and solution recommendations
• Generate insights through benchmarking, cost models and analytics
• Support Market Centres of Excellence with execution of global category strategies
• Lead sourcing activities across global and above-market spend categories
• Plan and lead commercial negotiations and manage contracts throughout their lifecycle
• Maintain contract governance and compliance
• Identify, assess and mitigate strategic, commercial and supplier risks
• Strengthen supply resilience and improve risk management practices
• Build strategic supplier relationships and drive supplier performance, innovation and long-term value
• Assess supplier capability across operational, financial, quality, compliance and risk criteria
• Drive corrective actions and continuity of supply
• Drive sustainable cost efficiencies, innovation and competitive advantage through the supply base
• Identify opportunities across total cost of ownership, productivity, design-to-value and demand optimisation

Commercial Finance, Internal Controls

Manager – Order Enquiries, Resolution

Senior Manager – Federal Tax Compliance

Business Strategy – Transformation Lead

People Advisor

Global Procurement Specialist – Value Creation, Agile