Senior Accountant - Cargill

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Accountant will focus on the routine finance operational activities and the coordination of the routine finance operational activities of the assigned team encompassing service level agreement adherence, reporting, procedures and communication. In this role, you will focus on process improvement, best practice sharing and client satisfaction measures and improvement plans and oversee the task distribution across the team. You will be the technical escalation point providing onsite support to employees taking ownership of technically difficult issues where your expertise will help drive faster problem identification and resolution and serve as the initial interface for all operational related issues.

Key Accountabilities

• Plan and execute day to day finance operational activities and coordinate the daily accounting activities of the team.
• Ensure day to day finance operational activities are executed effectively with appropriate controls, training and documentation.
• Ensure time sensitive processes are completed including full balance sheet reconciliations, consolidation and corporate reporting requirements including fixed assets, expense analysis and other accounting related inquiries and ensure financial reporting is completed timely and accurately.
• Actively participate and support major projects and initiatives from a financial perspective.
• Ensure accounting tasks completed are in compliance with the service catalog and accounting policy.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Working knowledge of enterprise resource planning applications.
• Good working knowledge of spreadsheet and word processing applications.
• Minimum of two years of related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of experience in finance operation with good expertise in record to report and related finance processes.
• Previous experience in leading teams.
• End to end process knowledge on record to report.