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Foods you love. Brands you trust. And a career that empowers you to grow. At Nestlé USA, we’re all working towards the same goal – to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to be there for every moment in our consumers’ lives. Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk-taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive. This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship. Position Summary The Senior Finance Manager, Accounting & Reconciliation provides strategic and operational leadership across Fixed Assets Management, Intragroup Accounting, and Banking Operations. The role is accountable for accurate and timely accounting, strong financial controls, effective service delivery, audit readiness, and continuous improvement across onshore, offshore, and shared-service teams. This leader partners with Nestlé operating companies, Corporate Reporting, Treasury, Tax, Shared Services, Internal Controls, and external auditors. The role translates enterprise priorities into clear operating plans, resolves complex and high-risk issues, and develops scalable processes that support business transformation, legal-entity changes, and evolving finance systems. The position also leads major cross-functional transformation projects and ensures consistent, reliable reporting across all supported accounting areas. Key Responsibilities Portfolio Leadership and Governance • Own end-to-end service delivery, governance, controls, performance, and continuous improvement across the supported accounting operations portfolio. • Own the accuracy, completeness, and timely delivery of management, financial, and operational reporting across Fixed Assets, Intragroup Accounting, and Banking Operations, including period-end schedules, performance indicators, and key risk and issue reporting. • Establish priorities, management routines, service expectations, KPIs, escalation protocols, and clear accountability across multiple teams and service-delivery partners. • Monitor close execution, operational performance, aged items, financial risk, capacity, and control effectiveness; provide concise management insight and drive timely corrective actions. • Ensure policies, standard operating procedures, role clarity, and documentation remain current and support consistent execution and audit readiness. • Lead cross-functional governance and issue-resolution forums, aligning stakeholders on decisions, ownership, timing, and sustainable solutions. Fixed Assets Management • Provide leadership and oversight for the fixed asset lifecycle, ensure fixed asset accounting is accurate, timely, and compliant with applicable accounting standards, company policies, internal controls, and close requirements. • Oversee account reconciliations, asset-under-construction monitoring, aging reviews, impairment indicators, and resolution of exceptions or legacy items. • Partner with project owners, Engineering, Procurement, Tax, business finance, and Shared Services to improve data quality, clarify ownership, and strengthen capital governance. • Support audits, control testing, system changes, integrations, divestitures, reorganizations, and other events affecting the fixed asset register. Intragroup and Intercompany Accounting • Lead end-to-end intragroup and intercompany accounting activities, including transaction governance, reconciliations, settlements, reporting, eliminations, and resolution of differences across legal entities. • Oversee preparation, review, and timely submission of required period-end schedules and supporting financial information. • Drive resolution of aged balances and recurring exceptions through clear ownership, root-cause analysis, escalation, and sustainable corrective actions. • Maintain strong controls and documentation over trading-partner data, confirmations, reconciliations, settlements, and period-end reporting. • Provide accounting leadership for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, dissolutions, restructurings, legal-entity rationalization, and related system or organizational changes. Banking Operations • Provide governance and oversight for banking operations delivered through internal and shared-service teams, ensuring service levels, quality, controls, and close requirements are achieved. • Partner with Treasury and other stakeholders on bank-account governance, access administration, payment platforms, cash reporting, bank fees, and resolution of banking-related issues. • Ensure bank reconciliation exceptions, outstanding items, rejected or duplicate transactions, and control issues are monitored, escalated, and resolved promptly. • Support audit requests, control testing, and process or system changes affecting banking operations. Transformation, Process Improvement, and Analytics • Lead simplification, standardization, automation, and digital enablement across the portfolio, prioritizing improvements that strengthen controls, data quality, cycle time, efficiency, and user experience. • Lead complex cross-functional projects and finance transformation initiatives, including digital transformation, Legal Entity Rationalization, deconsolidation, system implementations, and organizational or process changes affecting the supported accounting areas. • Use data, dashboards, and analytics to improve visibility, identify risk and capacity trends, and support fact-based decisions. • Build a continuous-improvement culture that addresses root causes rather than recurring symptoms and shares leading practices across teams. People and Stakeholder Leadership • Lead, coach, and develop managers and team members while providing functional direction to offshore and shared-service teams. • Establish clear goals, performance expectations, development plans, succession coverage, and a culture of accountability, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous learning. • Assess workload, capacity, skills, and organizational coverage; align resources with close requirements, transformation priorities, and business risk. • Build trusted relationships with senior finance leaders and cross-functional partners, communicating complex accounting and operational matters clearly and recommending practical actions. • Serve as an escalation point for complex issues and ensure decisions are appropriately documented, communicated, and implemented. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field. CPA or CMA certification. • Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in accounting, controllership, financial reporting, shared services, treasury operations, or related finance roles. • 5+ years of people-leadership experience, including leadership of multiple teams, managers, or complex service-delivery relationships. • Strong knowledge of accounting principles, internal controls, financial close, balance-sheet reconciliations, fixed assets, intercompany accounting, and banking operations. • Demonstrated ability to lead complex operations, resolve high-risk issues, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and manage competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment. • Advanced analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present clear recommendations to senior leadership and auditors. Preferred Qualifications • Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline. • Experience with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA, consolidation or intercompany solutions, fixed asset systems, banking platforms, and reconciliation tools. • Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, deconsolidation, legal-entity transformation, ERP implementation, or shared-service transitions. • Experience using Excel, Power BI, Power Query, Power Automate, Microsoft 365, and AI-enabled productivity tools to improve finance operations. Key Competencies • Strategic and enterprise thinking • Financial control and risk management • Cross-functional collaboration • Change and transformation leadership • Developing people and teams • Influence with integrity • Operational excellence #LI-MR1 #LI-Hybrid Salary: $129,486.60 to $181,680.00 per year Bonus Eligibility: Yes The pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range. Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at nestlejobs.com It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace. To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you’ll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home. The Nestlé Companies are equal employment opportunity employers. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Contact us at accommodations@nestle.com or please dial 711 and provide this number to the operator: 1-800-321-6467. This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship. Review our applicant privacy notice before applying at nestlejobs.com. Job Requisition: 423584

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Foods you love. Brands you trust. And a career that empowers you to grow.
Portfolio Leadership and Governance
Own end-to-end service delivery, governance, controls, performance, and continuous improvement across the supported accounting operations portfolio.
Establish priorities, management routines, service expectations, KPIs, escalation protocols, and clear accountability across multiple teams and service-delivery partners.
Monitor close execution, operational performance, aged items, financial risk, capacity, and control effectiveness; provide concise management insight and drive timely corrective actions.
Ensure policies, standard operating procedures, role clarity, and documentation remain current and support consistent execution and audit readiness.
Lead cross-functional governance and issue-resolution forums, aligning stakeholders on decisions, ownership, timing, and sustainable solutions.
Fixed Assets Management
Oversee account reconciliations, asset-under-construction monitoring, aging reviews, impairment indicators, and resolution of exceptions or legacy items.
Partner with project owners, Engineering, Procurement, Tax, business finance, and Shared Services to improve data quality, clarify ownership, and strengthen capital governance.
Support audits, control testing, system changes, integrations, divestitures, reorganizations, and other events affecting the fixed asset register.
Intragroup and Intercompany Accounting

Nice-to-haves

Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
Experience with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA, consolidation or intercompany solutions, fixed asset systems, banking platforms, and reconciliation tools.
Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, deconsolidation, legal-entity transformation, ERP implementation, or shared-service transitions.
Experience using Excel, Power BI, Power Query, Power Automate, Microsoft 365, and AI-enabled productivity tools to improve finance operations.
Key Competencies
Strategic and enterprise thinking
Financial control and risk management
Cross-functional collaboration
Change and transformation leadership
Developing people and teams
Influence with integrity
Operational excellence

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