Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Senior Accountant is a key member of the global financial reporting team within Cargill’s Corporate Accounting & Finance (A&F) group. Corporate A&F is a global center of expertise (COE) within the finance job family that provides consolidated financial information to Cargill’s external and internal stakeholders. An experience within Corporate A&F COE offers a broad global perspective of the businesses that Cargill operates in while at the same time interacting with employees across the globe.
The Senior Accountant will provide a variety of accounting activities and will be responsible for various monthly, quarterly and annual required government filings, annual collection and filing of state unclaimed property returns. Other responsibilities include developing strong working relationships with reporting units around the world and aiding in resolving financial reporting issues; assisting in the implementation and transition to a new financial reporting system; initiating and implementing process improvements and leading other projects in the section.
Key Accountabilities
- Act in a leadership role in monthly, quarterly, and annual government reporting and unclaimed property compliance. Lead work done with reporting locations worldwide to resolve compliance reporting issues. Develop a strong understanding of government and state unclaimed reporting requirements.
- Apply accounting techniques and standard practices to classify and record financial transactions and prepare financial reports.
- Partner with the Controls and Process Improvement Accounting and Finance domains to craft and implement controlled processes, including the evaluation of government reporting needs in the transition to a new consolidation system.
- Assess and communicate information regarding business risks across the organization.
- Identify and implement process simplification, standardization, and automatization of financial and risk reporting to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
- Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Sophisticated financial analysis skills.
- Ability to communicate, influence and build trust with partners at multiple levels in the organization.
- Confirmed ability to identify and assess risk.
- Minimum of four years of related work experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience participating in moderately complex accounting activities across a country or multisite.
- Ability to work in a global, matrixed company.
- Ability to make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.
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