Finance Analyst – Irish Brand Homes (global Marketing Finance Team)

Finance Analyst – Irish Brand Homes (Global Marketing Finance Team)

Contract type: full-time, 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.

The Role

We're looking for a motivated and thorough Financial Analyst to support our Commercial Finance Manager and play a key role in strengthening our finance operations. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, partnering with colleagues across the business, and driving improvements in how work is carried out, this opportunity is for you.

This role offers hands-on responsibility in month-end reporting, credit control, purchasing, and continuous improvement projects, giving you a strong platform for professional development in a global organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Process month-end journals (revenue, COGS, overheads, stock, etc.) with strict working day 2 deadlines
• Support the Irish Brand Homes (IBH) Financial Accountant with monthly Management Accounts, benchmark packs, and performance reporting
• Provide ongoing finance support to the wider management team.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of cash processes and controls; support the cash administrator when required
• Reconcile revenue and cash/card receipts with front-end retail and ticketing systems

Debtors – Credit Control

• Run proactive debt collection and maintain a clean debtor ledger
• Prepare monthly aged debtor analysis for review with the Financial Accountant and Commercial Finance Lead
• Supervise all debtor processes (invoicing, payment allocation, account reconciliation) ensuring full CARM compliance
• Build strong, trust-based relationships with customers and maintain excellent customer service

Creditors – Accounts Payable

• Own and control the accounts payable process, including the Purchase Order cycle
• Support budget owners with PO creation, invoice queries, and ensure compliance with Diageo processes
• Handle key creditor accounts and process P-card payments

Additional Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement in controls and process efficiency
• Partner with budget owners to support cost control
• Perform reconciliations of balance sheet accounts
• Assist with statutory audit queries
• Support finance administration for the Business Storehouse (GSH) bottle shop
• Participate in testing and implementing new systems
• Contribute to the CARM and compliance agenda

About You

• BSc or MSc in Finance, Accounting or a related field
• 2–3+ years of experience in an analytical finance role
• Practical experience in month-end processes, journal entries, and P&L preparation
• Solid understanding of cash handling, accounts receivable, and accounts payable cycles
• Experience with balance sheet reconciliations
• Strong analytical abilities, high numeracy, and advanced Excel skills
• Confidence communicating with internal and external partners
• Good working IT knowledge, ideally in a multi-retail or visitor-experience environment.

Benefits of Working Here

• 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

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 unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.

Character Is Everything

Primary Location: Budapest

Additional Locations:

Budapest