Corporate Accounting Manager
Ferrara Pan Candy Co., Inc.

Job Location: Chicago

Want to make an impact?

Directly responsible for managing the monthly close process and ensuring timely and accurate financial results for the Company's business units. The job is part of the Corporate Accounting & Consolidations Group and works collaboratively and cross-functionally to drive accurate financial results and is a key player within the Finance organization.

Ways you will make a difference

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Supports the Company's S4/HANA implementation journey, as needed
• Monitor intercompany and related party activities and providing summarized reporting for business partners
• Manage the Company's fixed asset and project accounting process including oversight of the Senior Financial Analyst of Corporate Accounting:
  • Monitor and report new capital projects
  • Review and forecast depreciation expens
  • Work with various individuals across the organization to ensure appropriate capitalization and disposals of fixed asset
  • Review capital requests for accounting and reporting implication
  • Review findings of quarterly fixed asset observations led by SFA
• Facilitate monthly P&L and Balance Sheet reviews for International segments
  • Analyze financial statement activity to proactively identify opportunities or risk to facilitate overall accuracy of financial records
  • Develop financial models, including transfer price calculations, and completes analysis to support growth initiatives and business trends
  • Partner with International Finance to assess profitability and partner with Treasury to assess funding needs
  • Oversee statutory reporting audit requirements
• Development of new processes and control improvements as needed by the business to support growth, strategy shifts, and/or "continuous improvement initiatives"
• Facilitate internal cross-functional trainings as needed in order to increase awareness and efficiencies with our efforts for automations within our accounting studio
• Monitor and ensure timely identification and compliance with evolving accounting guidance, provide US GAAP interpretation and prepare technical memorandums that document issues in a clear, logical and comprehensive manner
• Manage communications with external auditors on external financial statements and accounting issues to ensure auditor agreement with company decisions on accounting disclosures, and issues
• Ensures adherence to all company policies and procedures
• Understands and demonstrates the Company's core values
• Performs other duties and special projects, as assigned, including implementing operating efficiencies within the department (i.e. system / process implementations, reporting enhancements, etc.) and requests from key stakeholders
• Oversee Corporate Accounting senior accountant effectively

• Demonstrates financial modeling skills and knowledge of the correlation between cash flow, balance sheet and income statemen
• Strong communication skills including verbal, group presentations and written communication
• Experience handling large multi-task and deadline oriented projects
• Analytical problem solver
• Ability to excel in fast paced high pressure environment
• Organized and able to prioritize work effectively
• Detail-oriented but able to convert into meaningful summary
• Comfortable pushing others with diplomacy
• Positive attitude with intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn
• Comfortable with ambiguity

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting
• CPA certification required
• Minimum 7-10 years' accounting experience across multiple areas preferably with manufacturing or consumer products companies
• Public accounting, preferably Big 4 or large regional firm, experience a plus
• High proficiency in MS Excel and Office Suite
• SAP (including S4/HANA) and Oracle EPM / FCCS experience a plus
• Superior written and oral communication skills
• Previous management experience a plus
• US GAAP and IFRS experience preferred