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Job Purpose and Impact
The South America Crush Business Segment Controller and Brazil Country Controller will serve as a key member of the business regional controllership team and will lead complex controllership activities to ensure the integrity of business group financial data and statements, including published generally accepted accounting principles, statutory and internal financial reporting data.
In this role, you will proactively partner with the business group finance leadership on business changes and decisions to manage financial reporting, control processes and risks across the business group region to ensure an effective system of internal control.
You will serve as a strategic member of the controllership extended leadership team.
Key Accountabilities
Lead the end-to-end financial reporting activities for the business segment to ensure timely delivery of accurate generally accepted accounting principles and Country statutory financial data based on materiality levels defined for external and internal financial reporting.
Provide leadership for country financial and legal entity structure and reporting.
Lead local accounting compliance requirements and audits.
Perform legal entity accountant role and other responsibilities, as needed.
Certify that business group sub region financial statements are materially accurate, oversee certification of financial data at the business group country level and communicate significant and unusual accounting matters to the group finance director and enterprise controller.
Partner with key teams to deliver accounting expertise on business activities, provide information and insights for business segment internal financial reporting, communicate relevant accounting impacts for inclusion in forecasts and drive financial control and reporting issue resolution.
Lead the technical accounting compliance and be responsible for interactions with external auditors for generally accepted accounting principles and statutory accounting matters, consulting with technical accounting when required and ensuring consistent business group accounting policies.
Ensure business processes and an effective system of internal controls to comply with finance minimums and monitor and drive effective financial reporting controls at the business process level.
Communicate significant control deficiencies to the group controller and group finance director.
Lead the identification and mitigation of financial risks of business processes and data and technology changes and support finance change governance and handle mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint venture activities and resourcing through the transaction life cycle with required support.
Provide strategic leadership, development and talent management activities for direct reports and their organizations, which may include forecasting resource needs, recruiting, hiring, performance management, training, and budgeting.
You will also collaborate with managers in your organization to ensure staff selections align with needs.
LI-Hybrid #LI-LM9 Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in a related field (preferable in "Accounting" with active CRC)
Solid related work experience, four years of supervisory experience
Experience with US generally accepted accounting principles and IFRS
Fluent in English and Intermediate in Spanish
Confirmed experience in managing a control framework over financial reporting and financial risk identification and mitigation
Lead process simplification and standardization and ensure reporting optimization, automation and transformation of processes is in place.
Oversee, analyze, and interpret accounting reports to monitor the impact on key partners.
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