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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.

Purpose

The Supplier Experience department is responsible to ensure that Source to Pay processes (including Purchase to Pay, Tactical Procurement and TPRM) are working effectively & efficiently, are well controlled and drive value for Diageo, also ensuring control agenda (SOX compliance) across all areas as well.

The LAC Credit Risk Authority is acting as the first point of contact for the markets to ensure accurate counterparty risk evaluations, this person works closely with compliance officer, legal, TPRM and FDs to evaluate credit risk exposure to clients and vendors does not affect business continuity.

The role requires a solid understanding of financial analysis, risk profiling, and credit bureau systems, and works closely with the Third Party Risk Management and procurement teams in business partnering, liaising with 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 vendor/client's credit risk assessment.
• Build active and positive relationships with users, and Procurement collaborators.
• Provide support that facilitates the accurate, efficient and timely setup and approval of credit limits, risk profile and business criticality exposure.
• Support and management of the credit bureau tool subscription, management and information confidentiality.
• Ensure routine reviews of key vendors/clients according to the agreed risk profile and business exposure.
• Handle E2E PO Lifecycle of all credit rating subscriptions.
• Handle and resolve credit review SLA's with markets and collaborators
• Prepare reports and analysis for review with FC, Legal and Procurement community and introduce supervising benchmarks.

Key interactions - Internal

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

Critical Finance Capabilities

• Act as process authority, assist with supplier and client's financial capability and 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 Credit Risk assessment processes, their financial impact and business continuity

Qualifications / experience

• Demonstrate high ownership over Credit Risk assessment processes, their financial impact and business continuity
• Handle of SAP ERP FI and MM Modules
• Demonstrated ability in credit risk analysis, balance sheets and financial statements review and risk models
• Strong customer service skills
• Proven experience of building, developing and sustaining risk models and credit review with key stakeholders
• Internal controls awareness

Essential Skills:

• Can do attitude in driving for solutions taking business requirements in consideration
• Good understanding of risk assessment process
• Balance sheet and financial statement understanding
• Good communicative and influencing capabilities dealing with stakeholders
• Banking background is a plus
• Spanish, and English knowledge, Portuguese as a plus.

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.

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 embrace 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, mindsets, 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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