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Job Title: Credit Controller - French speaker
Location: Budapest
Contract Term: Permanent

From pioneers like Arthur Guinness, John Walker and Elizabeth Cumming, to the digital disrupters already shaping our future, at Diageo, we’ve never stopped looking forward. We’re continuing to build on our heritage and, with eCommerce at the heart of everything we do, we’re creating our legacy for tomorrow! Join us and explore new ways ahead with digital sales channels, consumer insight and data. As you help us to keep shaking up the market with industry-leading solutions, you’ll transform your career too!

About us
Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life.

About the function

The Commercial Experience Tower is all about the processes that allow us to transact with our customers and distributors. We are the second biggest tower in GBO, operating in centres located in Budapest, Bangalore, Bogota, and Manila as well as satellite locations such as Belfast, Madrid, Athens, and Turin.

About the role

​​​​​​​We provide insight, analysis, and provocation to our markets on our key areas of specialism such as debtors management & credit risk management.

The purpose of the role is to maximise cash flow and minimising bad & old debt. You will be expected to provide world class back office support for the customer teams and in market finance teams to ensure customer spend payments are processed on time, customers receive their money back hence paying Diageo on time in return.
The role manages relationship with customers and with various teams of the market and internally (e.g. customer service team, supply team, warehouse). You will schedule and lead regular communications with Customers and Sales to drive cash collection, flag and eliminate any reoccurring issues either cash, dispute, data or technical related. You will manage credit risk (monitor payment behaviour of customers and propose credit limit changes), customer ledger (up-to-date information about overdue items) and maintains customer documentation.
The role gives input to cash forecasting and also reviews and approves outgoing payment to customers.

We offer end-to-end services at a global scale in the following areas:​​​​​​​

Pricing set up to make sure we’re ready to trade

Managing credit limit and payment term approval processes

Order capture from customers and between group companies

Driving order and invoice issue resolution with 3PLs, Sales and Supply

Collecting cash from customers and group companies

Managing, validating, and paying promotional invoices

What you’ll bring

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Fluent French language skills

Solid English language skills – company language

College or University Degree would be desirable

Some Financial knowledge

Strong MS Office knowledge

Analytical mindset

SAP knowledge

Benefits

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

Flexibility
This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time and compressed hours. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Diversity statement
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.

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