Senior Accountant 🔥
Job Purpose and Impact
The Senior Accountant is a key member of the global financial reporting team within Cargill’s Corporate Accounting & Finance (A&F) group. Corporate A&F is a global center of expertise (COE) within the finance job family that provides consolidated financial information to Cargill’s external and internal stakeholders. An experience within Corporate A&F COE offers a broad global perspective of the businesses that Cargill operates in while at the same time interacting with employees across the globe.
The Senior Accountant will develop a strong knowledge of the consolidation processes and accounting policies, while providing a role in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements for internal and external customers such as internal financial leadership, shareholders, and board of directors. Other responsibilities include developing strong working relationships with reporting units around the world and aiding in resolving complex structure, accounting, and financial reporting issues; assisting in the implementation of updates to the financial reporting systems; initiating and implementing process improvements and leading other projects in the section.
Key Accountabilities
Act in a leadership role in quarterly and year-end closes based on a strong knowledge of the consolidations processes and systems with emphasis on resolving intercompany and investment related issues. Lead work done with reporting locations worldwide to resolve complex structure, accounting, and financial reporting issues. Develop a strong understanding of US GAAP accounting policies by working with Technical Accounting COE group.
Apply accounting techniques and standard practices to classify and record financial transactions and prepare financial reports.
Partner with the Controls and Process Improvement Accounting and Finance domains to craft and implement controlled processes.
Assess and communicate information regarding business risks across the organization.
Identify and implement process simplification, standardization, and automatization of financial and risk reporting to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Sophisticated financial analysis skills
Ability to communicate, influence and build trust with partners at multiple levels in the organization.
Confirmed ability to identify and assess risk.
Minimum of four years of related work experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience participating in moderately complex accounting activities across a country or multisite.
Ability to work in a global, matrixed company.
Ability to make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
#LI-ER1 Posting Information
Relocation, Sponsorship, Remote: We are NOT be considering relocation, sponsorship or remote candidates for this role at this time
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.