Description

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.

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About the Function:

Our Global Business Operations (GBO) team are facilitators, providing strategic, financial, and business services that are critical 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.

Purpose

The Account Payable Subject Matter Expert is acting as the first point of contact for the markets regarding any STP issues, they work closely with Requestors and other STP Service Delivery Teams to ensure all STP issues are proactively picked up, resolved or channelled to the relevant GDBS team for resolution.

The role requires confirmed system and E2E STP process understanding and will closely support Purchase Order Lifecycle Management, works in close business partnering with the STP Governance and the STP Process Support Team and liaises with other internal & external collaborators. The role holder may be tasked to raise POs and complete related tasks.

Accountabilities

• Acting as the first point of contact for the markets for STP functional issues related to SAP and Coupa.
• Build active and positive relationships with users, and Procurement collaborators.
• Provide support that facilitates the accurate, efficient and timely setup and approval of purchase orders
• Support and management of the web form creation of the online payments and urgent payments
• Ensure parked and blocked items against the POs are kept to minimum
• Supervise Purchase Order housekeeping in agreement with the Requestor for SAP POs
• Handle E2E PO Lifecycle of all SAP Pos, supervising Gr vs delivery date
• Handle balance circularization with the vendors with open PO for their corresponding region.
• Close POs based on relevant approvals collected by the STP Process Support Team and follow up to complete the needed financial adjustments (GRNI management & P&L impact)
• Prepare reports and analysis for review with FC community and do following about it.
• To be responsible for the planning and execution with human talent resources and all the market areas of the user training of the STP process.

Grade differentiators

• Entry:
  Performs routine activities in a structured environment - typically on one service line only
  Works under supervision, uses little discretion. Is expected to seek guidance in unexpected situations.
• Mid:
• undefined
• Higher:
  Performs a range of work, sometimes sophisticated and non-routine, in a variety of environments.
  Investigates, defines and resolves sophisticated issues.
  Supports less authoritative staff

Key interactions - Internal

• Cross Business: Global, Regional and In-market PTP/Procurement/Finance teams and collaborators
• GDBS STP Service Delivery, FC, RTR, OTC Teams in all DBS locations
• Enterprise Ops functions / team members - for helping to resolve queries
  Employees / business units - to deliver required services and resolve queries.
• Internal and External Auditors - to respond to queries and requests for information.
• Collaboration is essential.
• Continuous Improvement driven culture

Key interactions - External

• Customers / users - to deliver required services and resolve queries.
• 3rd party vendors delivering technical support to Diageo

Critical Finance Capabilities

• Act as process authority, assist with supplier and requestor compliance issues, and ensure front-end users follow the right processes.
• Highlight any potential process and knowledge gap, ensure proper resolution
• Demonstrate high ownership over STP processes and their financial impact

Qualifications / experience

Qualifications

• Demonstrate high ownership over STP processes and their financial impact

Experience

• Handle of SAP ERP FI and MM Modules
• 3 - 5 years of experience in a computerized accounting department of a large, reputable commercial organization
• Strong customer service skills
• Customer care and team playing skills
• Demonstrable experience of building, developing and sustaining relationships with key collaborators
• Internal controls awareness
• Spanish, and English knowledge, Portuguese as a plus.

Crucial Skills:

• Can do demeanor in aiming for solutions taking business requirements in consideration
• Good understanding of accounts payable process
• Experience in Invoice processing
• Experience in payment processing
• Understanding of accounting
• Good communicative and influencing capabilities taking care of collaborators

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

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