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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

This role will own and manage the environmental topics within ESG reporting, including carbon emissions, water efficiency, packaging, waste, and agricultural programmes, aligned with business priorities and external reporting requirements.

You will act as a subject-matter owner and methodology custodian for selected environmental ESG data, working closely with senior partners, ESG Reporting leadership, and external auditors. The role plays a key part in strengthening data quality, controls, and assurance across the ESG reporting cycle.

This is an individual contributor role with no direct line management responsibility, requiring strong influence and collaboration across functions.

Key Responsibilities

Environmental ESG Reporting & Data Ownership

• Own and lead environmental ESG topics across the reporting cycle, aligned to business and reporting priorities
• Build strong relationships with senior partners, clearly communicating expectations for their involvement in ESG reporting
• Develop and maintain technical expertise to act as custodian of reporting methodologies, boundaries, and definitions for selected ESG data
• Coordinate and support training for data owners and users to drive accurate and consistent reporting
• Provide Second Line of Defence (LoD2) challenge to ESG data quality, including designing and operating validation controls
• Draft procedures, develop guidance materials, and provide consultancy support to functional teams
• Support continuous improvement of sustainability reporting from a systems and methodology perspective
• Ensure enhanced validation and control embedded throughout the reporting cycle

ESG Reporting & Assurance

• Work closely with the ESG Reporting Environmental Senior Manager, ESG Reporting & Assurance Lead, and External Reporting Compliance Lead to implement agreed ESG reporting approaches
• Supply ESG data for the Annual Report and other disclosures (e.g. results presentations)
• Ensure compliance with ESG reporting standards, strategies, and principles
• Maintain consistency of ESG information across all external publications
• Support data quality from both reporting and audit perspectives
• Find opportunities to improve ESG reporting processes
• Act as a key liaison with external auditors, ensuring timely resolution of queries
• Support contributing functions with assurance-related principles and processes
• Collaborate with functional owners to recommend right-sized controls for selected financial data
• Review PwC findings for selected financial data and ensure FAC and Audit Committee reporting accurately reflects facts and management actions

About You

• Relevant professional education Bachelor's or Master's degree or comparable experience in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or hands-on experience in ESG or environmental fields
  (e.g. carbon, water, or waste management)
• 3-5 years of professional experience in relevant fields
• Strong understanding of climate change and sustainability issues
• Experience with ESG data reporting
• Familiarity with EU, UK, and US sustainability reporting regulations and frameworks
  (TCFD, SASB, GRI, GHG Protocol)
• Strong interpersonal skills with experience leading cross-functional partners
• Ability to communicate effectively and expertly in English
• Solid understanding of end-to-end processes and internal controls, including build and operation
• Ability to solve complex issues with clear ownership and accountability
• Comfortable working independently with limited supervision
• Strong understanding of SOP goals, including positive drinking and sustainable development, and how to gather and communicate ESG data and stories to support corporate reputation

Additional Experience

• Understanding of ESG disclosure trends and standard methodologies
• Experience with data assurance processes
• Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley / CARM compliance
• Knowledge of group reporting tools, such as Workiva (W-Desk) or BFC

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