Senior Accountant

Description

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At Lactalis in the USA, we're committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive-whether you're just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, President specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow, Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

The Senior Accountant will support the financial controller in the month end closing process ensuring the integrity of financial information. This person leads the closing process, ensures balance sheet reconciliations are complete and will also reconcile the cash settlement statement while the Transitional Services Agreement (TSA) which governs services performed by KHC, is in effect. The position will also ensure adequate uploading and reporting information in tools such as HFM and will assist in the year end audit process.

From your Expertise to ours

• Assisting in the reconciliation of the cash settlement statement with KHC through the TSA period
• Processes all necessary journals to ensure month end closing process is complete
• Assists in managing accounting interfaces of sub-sytems (eg payroll) and ensures transactions properly recorded at month end.
• Performs ongoing reviews of trial balances to ensure financial statements accurately reflect the financial position of the company.
• Performs balance sheet reconciliations and ensures bank balances are fully reconciled
• Assists in maintaining intercompany and Intracompany process, including elimination entries and reconciliations
• Liaising with KHC on any cash settlement differences and ensuring these are resolved.
• Uploading of necessary balances into consolidation tools such as HFM
• Processing of any consolidation journal entries.
• Processing of any payables and responsible for ensuring adequate controls in place over payables.
• Liaising with the tax team on tax impacts of transactions and ensuring correct recording of tax impacts.
• Assists in the reconciliation of statutory and management reporting

Requirements

From your STORY to ours

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting preferred
• CPA/CA or close to completion

Experience

• 5+ years of experience focused on accounting, consolidations, general ledger closing
• Familiar with Group consolidation tools such as HFM/Hyperion
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Attention to detail, and ability to navigate within large and complex data environments
• SAP Experience advantageous
• Ability to effectively summarize complex information
• Good oral and written communication skills,
• Ability to maintain flexibility in an ever-changing environment

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affirmative Action Employer will comply with all related legal obligations.