Senior Manager Technical Accounting & Control (f/m/d)

About Flora Food Group

We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.  

Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.  

About The Position

Are you looking for a highly visible role, leading a best-in-class team of professionals, with global responsibilities in a dynamic, open environment full of opportunities? Are you a team player with great communication and leadership skills, looking to make great impact with your technical IFRS and internal controls background?

As Senior Manager Technical Accounting & Control within Flora Food Group you will lead on global technical accounting, reporting (IFRS) and internal control. You are the “to go to” person in this area and you will lead the development of this function to optimally support and steer the global business by promoting efficiency and compliance. You are a senior internal speaking partner within the Global Controlling team, for other global functions as well as regional and market CFO’s. You will also work closely with the Internal Audit team and External Auditor to enable an efficient and effective external audit process.

Responsibilities

• You are a key member of the Group Controlling Leadership team reporting into the Group Controller and for Process Control development into the Head of Internal Audit.
• You will lead a team (currently 7 members) consisting of a technical accounting team located in Amsterdam (2 members) and an internal control team in Bangalore (5 members).
• You are responsible for the Group’s internal control policies and for their continuous developments.
• You will lead on the design and implementation of our integrated internal control framework harmonizing the risk assessment, control design and rationalization, and testing and reporting activities across the Group for core processes (think order to cash, record to report, source to pay, make to deliver) closely collaborating with internal audit.
• You own the follow-up actions and coordinate with the business to address deficiencies identified in the external auditor’s Management Letter.
• You and your team will be responsible for access control management. This includes diligent segregation of duties monitoring for SAP and non-SAP systems, as well as ongoing access and role management in close collaboration with global process owners and IT stakeholders.
• You lead and own the global finance, accounting and reporting (IFRS) policies and ensure they remain relevant for our multinational group when amendments to (or new) IFRS standards are introduced.
• You determine the Group’s accounting positions for complex accounting and reporting matters. This includes recurring topics, such as accounting for variable consideration as a part of revenue recognition or the annual impairment test, as well as non-recurring transactions, such as debt issuances/refinancings, leasing, financial instruments, business combinations, etc.
• You and your team are responsible for drafting accounting position papers for the complex accounting topics listed above.
• You are internal and external business partner, you are the primary point of contact with the external auditors, external advisors, and other senior leaders on technical accounting and controls topics.
• You assist global process owners to ensure that key process optimizations within Flora (e.g., record to report) align with Group policy.
• You are able to communicate with impact. You can simplify complex accounting and reporting topics and communicate the core issues to finance and/or non-finance management, as well as members of the executive committee.
• You are internal and external business partner, you are the primary point of contact with the external auditors, external advisors, and other senior leaders on technical accounting and controls topics.
• You bring high energy to engage in communication with stakeholders to secure understanding, implementation and receive feedback for continuous improvement of policies.

So, what does it take to be successful in this role? 

We expect the main focus in the first year will be on developing the process controls to enable management to sign off on a formal “in control statement”. Therefore the candidate

needs to have the right motivation and background to lead on developing a robust framework with focus on key controls.

For this role we are looking for a top performer with an outstanding educational and work background. We would love to hear about your track record and best practices, which you can further develop within Flora.

• You are a qualified external auditor.
• You come from one of the Big 4 firms where you are at partner/director level or close to that level and you are highly motivated to make the step to the other side of the table.
• Alternatively, the right person for this role has a strong Big 4 background combined with a number of years of experience in a similar role in an international company.

At Flora you will be an important enabler of growth, efficiency and compliance of our global plant-based business. As we are private equity owned (KKR), you are also looking ahead to get the company ready for a possible future change in ownership

What’S Next

If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now! If you have additional questions, you can send me, Marie Mantel, Interim TA Specialist, an e-mail to marie.mantel@florafg.com.

We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.  

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