The Financial Controller/Operations Manager is responsible for the Record to Report process. Leads and develops a team of accountants providing world class financial operations compliant with Mars Finance Manual GAAP statutory/legal/regulatory policies and requirements.

The role is a Custodian of corporate Governance engaging and collaborating with business partners to ensure compliance.They are responsible for driving the S&F digital agenda NCFO forecasting and bringing projects in the scope of record to report to life.

What are we looking for

• Bachelors degree in Business Accounting or Finance.
• Professional designation required: CPA CMA CGA or CA.
• 57 years of progressive experience in finance leadership within a medium to large global organization.
• 23 years of experience in Accounting Governance and Internal Controls (required).
• 2 years of experience in a people leadership role (required).
• Experience in a multi-divisional global environment (asset)..
• Strong Stakeholder and Change Management skills.

What will be your key responsibilities

Financial Operations

• Responsible for all accounting and finance operations
• Responsible for efficient and effective period close process that delivers accurate financial information
• Finance Key User for ERP changes
• Collaborate with payroll in issue resolution/driving continuous improvement
• Approve all Accounts Payable payments and submission to bank

Custodian of Governance

• Ensures compliance in the FinOps area (Segregation of Duties Golden Standards).
• Partners with business partners to raise standards of Governance through training process improvements risk identification and mitigation.

Finance Leader

• Manage and develop a highly engaged team by leading efforts to continuously drive associate and team engagement.
• Manage multiple process improvement and key priority projects.
• Support ad hoc requests/projects from the business.

NCFO Business Partnering

• Builds a robust cash-forecast including an assessment of risks and opportunities and feeds this into the S&OP process.
• Partners across the organization (commercial sales) to understand and anticipate cash impacts such payment term changes.
• Ensures accuracy of NCFO data by overseeing balance sheet bookings and period close processes.
• Tracks and reviews actual NCFO against plan.
• Engages the senior leadership team to align on and execute on a NCFO plan for the current year as well as future years.
• Works with Treasury to forecast weekly cash flow.

D2C Business Partnering

• Manages the technical rollout of direct-to-consumer processes to new partners.
• Ensures data integrity of D2C postings by overseeing revenue and trade reconciliations and the results of automated IT processes.
• Helps create and implement new digital processes to improve transparency with D2C partners and operational excellence.

Digital Transformation Lead

• Leads large-scale projects to deliver global solutions for enabling digital ways of working in Financial Operations (e.g. Global In-House Bank Supplier Financing Intercompany AP Automation Third-Party AP Automation).
• Champions use cases for the adoption of new digital tools (e.g. Smartsheet DocuSign Power BI).
• Works with leadership teams to develop and deliver new business through digital initiatives (e.g. D2C B2B).
• Adhere to applicable Quality and Food Safety Policies and Quality Management System requirements to ensure compliance to MARS standards.
• Demonstrate a quality culture in actions words and spirit.
• Other duties as assigned.

What can you expect from Mars

• Work with diverse and talented Associates all guided by the Five Principles.

• Join a purpose driven company where were striving to build the world we want tomorrow today.

• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one including access to our in-house Mars University.

• An industry competitive salary and benefits package including company bonus.

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