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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

We are looking for an experienced ESG Reporting Manager to take ownership of ESG-related disclosures and assurance activities across our external reporting. This role plays a critical part in ensuring that ESG information published in the Annual Report, ERI, and other external disclosures is accurate, consistent, and fully aligned with regulatory and internal requirements.

You will work closely with senior collaborators across External Reporting, Assurance, Compliance, and Sustainability functions, as well as external auditors, to continuously enhance ESG reporting quality and processes. While the role has no direct reports, success depends on strong influence and delivery through a matrix organisation.

Key Responsibilities

ESG Reporting

• Own the preparation of ESG-related disclosures in the Annual Report and ERI, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and regulatory compliance
• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance ESG reporting processes
• Partner with the External Reporting - ESG Reporting & Assurance Lead and External Reporting Compliance Lead to align approaches and deliver required data for other disclosures (e.g. results presentations)
• Ensure compliance with ESG reporting standards, strategies, and principles
• Maintain consistency of ESG information across all externally published materials
• Act as the main liaison with external auditors, ensuring timely resolution of all queries
• Ensure Filing Assurance Committee (FAC) ESG reporting aligns with internal policies and regulatory requirements

Assurance over Non-Financial External Reporting

• Support contributing functions with assurance-related principles and processes for the Annual Report
• Collaborate with functional owners to recommend appropriate internal controls related to chosen financial information
• Review PwC findings for selected financial data and ensure FAC and Audit Committee reporting accurately reflects facts and management actions

This is an individual contributor role, offering significant ownership and impact, without direct line management responsibility.

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)
• 5+ years of professional experience in relevant fields
• Proven experience delivering outcomes through indirect reports in a matrix organisation
• Experience with ESG and non-financial data reporting, including data assurance processes
• Strong understanding of climate change and sustainability topics
• Knowledge of ESG disclosure trends and standard methodologies
• Familiarity with EU, UK, and US sustainability reporting regulations
• Experience working with TCFD, SASB, and GRI standards
• Proficient and confident English
• Strong interpersonal skills with a proven track record of senior partner management and influence
• Strong technical and management reporting capability
• Solid understanding of end-to-end processes and internal controls, including design and operation
• Ability to solve complex issues with clear ownership and accountability
• Comfortable operating independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to provide sound advice on complex technical matters

Nice to Have

• 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