Cargill India | MSC Finance Analyst , CBI - APAC

Responsibilities

• The Professional, Managerial Accounting job performs moderately complex managerial accounting activities in support of financial decision making.
• With limited supervision, this job drafts financial reports, analyzes financial data and proposes recommendations on budgeting and forecasting processes.
• This job also participates in the continuous improvement of management information systems, reporting standards and business metric development to drive data informed business decisions.
• REPORT DRAFTING: Drafts moderately complex financial and non financial reports for internal partners by gathering, prioritizing and analyzing financial and non financial data and key performance indicators.
• DECISION SUPPORT: Identifies insights based on financial analysis and research to support strategic business decision making.
• COST ANALYSIS: Analyzes costs associated with products, projects, or specific plants to help better understand cost drivers and opportunities for improvement.
• MANAGEMENT REPORTING: Implements the approved effective effective management reporting practices to ensure data integrity and relevancy and to communicate the reporting and costs at the local level.
• RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Maintains positive relationships with business leaders and business teams to understand local and regional business needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 to 5years of relevant experience.

Cargill, Incorporated

William Wallace Cargill started the business in 1865 in Conover, Iowa, and it is now headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota. It remains privately held, with the Cargill family as the main owners. The company buys, trades and distributes grain and other agricultural commodities, makes food ingredients such as starch, glucose syrup and vegetable oils, produces animal feed and raises livestock, and offers financial services that help manage risk in commodity markets. In India it has plants in several states, including a corn-milling site at Davangere. Its global business services centre at Bengaluru began in 2015 and handles finance, HR, procurement, logistics and technology work for the group.

Its finance openings in India are in Bengaluru. They cover general and specialist accounting, accounting for agriculture and trading and for the derivatives market, product costing, cash application, travel and expense management, and finance analysis for the Asia-Pacific region. Experience asked for runs from two years for cash application to seven years of record-to-report work for a senior accounting role. Several postings name a qualification: CA or CA Inter, CMA or an equivalent, a fully qualified CMA for the two product-costing process specialist roles, and CA or CPA for the senior accounting role. One management role asks for a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or commerce.

• Industry: Agriculture, food and commodities: grain and oilseed trading, food ingredients, animal nutrition, edible oils and financial risk-management services
• Headquarters: Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States (privately held)
• In India: Cargill India, with manufacturing sites in several states and a global business services centre in Bengaluru started in 2015