Job - Non-financial reporting – Compliance and Assurance Manager (ESG)

Job title:Non-financial reporting – Compliance and Assurance Manager (ESG)

Contract: Fix-term (2 years), full-time

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 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 organization, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we’re using our digital capabilities and analytics to inform 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.

Role Purpose

This role supports the development and implementation of robust compliance and assurance processes for the Group’s non-financial reporting. Working closely with Finance, ESG teams, and other functional stakeholders, you will help ensure high-quality, consistent, and audit-ready ESG disclosures while contributing to continuous improvement across reporting processes and controls.

You will coordinate the external assurance process with PwC, support the annual reporting cycle, and help resolve implementation challenges across teams. The role also contributes to ESG reporting initiatives led by Environment and Social/Governance teams, with a focus on strong governance, control compliance, and reliable reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• ESG Reporting Coordination – Support harmonised ESG reporting by collaborating with Environment, Social, Governance, and internal reporting teams. Contribute to documenting and improving ESG reporting processes and monitor developments in reporting standards.

• External Assurance – Coordinate the end-to-end ESG assurance process with PwC, support documentation preparation, track assurance queries, and prepare materials for Finance and Audit Committee discussions.

• Double Materiality – Coordinate the double materiality assessment process, including timelines, data collection, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring outputs are clear and auditable.

• Controls & Audit Readiness – Support the design and documentation of ESG internal controls, maintain evidence for audits, and coordinate responses to auditor queries.

• Systems Governance – Help oversee ESG reporting systems such as Microsoft Sustainability Manager and wDesk to ensure reliable and traceable data.

• Stakeholder Engagement – Support communication with senior leaders through briefing materials, presentations, and coordination of follow-ups.

This is an individual contributor role offering strong ownership, visibility, and impact across the organisation.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Finance / Business Administration / Economics

• 5+ years of professional experience in ESG or environmental fields (e.g. carbon, water, or waste management)

• Experience in audit and controls and with Sarbanes-Oxley / CARM compliance

• Proficient and confident English

• Proven experience delivering outcomes through indirect reports in a matrix organisation

• Knowledge of ESG disclosure trends and standard methodologies

• Strong interpersonal skills with a consistent record of senior partner management and influence

• 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 limited supervision

• Ability to provide sound advice on complex technical matters

• Experience with ESG and non-financial data reporting, including data assurance processes

• Highly developed influencing and communication skills capable of deliver through others in approachable language

• Experience in managing a geographically dispersed organisation, and an instinctive sense of where to focus across departments and countries.

Nice to have:

• Qualified accountant (e.g. ACCA, CPA) - extensive (5+ years) post-qualification experience in an FMCG company;

• Familiarity with EU, UK, and US sustainability reporting regulations

• Experience working with TCFD, SASB, and GRI standards

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