Process Analyst, Accounts Payable Payment

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 insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We’re part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we’re utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to advise our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future — no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we’ll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

About the team:

DGBO (Diageo Global Business Operations) is a multi-functional, multicultural, multi-language Shared Service Centre that handles back office Finance Transactions for DIAGEO LATAM businesses. As such DBSB is playing a key role in ensuring effective operation with minimum disruption to business in the Source to Pay Work Stream

About the role:

Global Business Operations is end-to-end multi-functional shared services for our markets to deliver the Diageo Performance Ambition. 

GBO provides a wide array of services to markets and functions, with activities ranging from customer facing services, HR operations, general accounting, financial planning and reporting, and specialist services such as tax and treasury. GBO ​​​works as a global network with centres located in Bangalore, Budapest, Bogotá and Manila. Processes are organised into four major process towers:

• End-to-End Commercial (E2EC)

• Source-to-Pay (STP)

• Financial Control (FC)

• HR Operations (HRO)

• Data Services
   

Our ambition is to ‘Deliver best in class solutions and processes to help Diageo win’ through:

• Excellent processes: Standardised, effective and well-governed end-to-end processes underpinned by reliable and consistent operations, and exceptional customer experience.

• Trusted business partners: Credible change leaders with strong process and commercial acumen, highest levels of accountability, fostering deep strategic partnerships with our business to innovate and shape the future.

• Dynamic value creators: CPG leading performance for process and service delivery whilst sustaining a cost driven position; recognized for our contribution to margin, cash, and growth.

• Absolute confidence in controls & compliance, fit for purpose, simplified and automated by design.

• One Amazing Team. Create an inclusive and diverse workplace to cultivate future leaders for Diageo, increasing competencies while deeply connecting to our business and Diageo core values. Champion dynamic, agile teams driving continuous improvement in everything we do.
   

The Global Financial Controllership Process Tower is the core of the Business Shared Services offering, delivering core RTR services and expanding into more beneficial Financial Controlling activities. 

Global Business Operations Bogota blends the best of the global tower strategies with the competitive advantage of a close connection and knowledge of the markets and being in the same time zone and language. In the past years GBOB has Efficiently implemented Diageo´s global finance model into the region by developing the SSC into a Business partner for the Region.
 

Purpose 

To complete a range of transactional financial processes and tasks accurately and efficiently, following global policies, standards, processes and internal controls. Transactional processes in this position, means will work closely with In Market Company representatives of different levels and departments as well as relevant third parties.

Role Responsibilities:

Ensure timely and accurate processing of invoices, credit memos and debit memos as well. Validate issues evidenced in the process of posting and detonate corrective actions looking for issue resolution. Achieve critical important metrics by understanding the impact of them and pursuing the relevant process improvements Accurate post of online payment (OLP) requests, FI invoices and down payments (DP) when required. Effective quality checks evidenced by zero issues on Parked and blocked invoices. Invoices returned to vendor (RTV) are followed up to get replacement invoice meeting quality criteria and are posted in a timely manner to forestall any impact on critical metrics Tracking and managing of the STP shared mailbox according to the market assigned. Ensure all the relevant STP controls are operated and adhered to in their area of work. Keep Process Documentation actualized and accurate.

Critical Finance Capabilities 

Qualifications / experience 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience such as but not limited to, BCom, BBA, BBM

• English Level Intermediate (B2) and Portuguese is a plus

Experience

• Handle of SAP ERP FI and MM Modules

• 2-3 years of experience in a computerised accounting department of a large, reputable commercial organisation

• Customer care and team playing skills

Crucial Skills:

• Good understanding of accounts payable process

• Experience in Invoice processing

• Understanding of accounting

• Tax requirements understanding

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re

supported to handle your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement:

We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly driven Rewards and Benefits package including:

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, approaches, 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 new heights 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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