Cargill India | Specialist Accounting

Key accountabilities

• With limited supervision, this job prepares moderately complex financial reports, statements and analysis to provide insights for business decision making and identifies performance improvement opportunities to support business growth.
• This job also supports continuous improvement in management reporting, report standardization and rationalization.
• Deliver standard services, including processing journal entries, completing monthly and quarterly general ledger close activities, runbook, submission of financials to Corp A&F.
• Performs moderately complex accounting and reporting activities including understanding the business context, detailed verification of business transactions, quality balance sheet reconciliations.
• Deliver support in terms of audit deliverables.
• Partners on new setup and changes in existing financial applications to ensure accurate and efficient financial recordkeeping.
• Partners to implement internal controls and ensure financial processes are performed timely, accurately and in compliance with regulatory policies.
• Supports and implements continuous process improvement, including simplifying and optimizing processes, improving data integrity and applying current technology.
• Delivers moderately complex financial and management reports to support business decision making, including detailed analysis of P&L and BS items explaining the business context, drivers of variance / movement in balances that clearly explain the overall business performance

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of US GAAP accounting principles.
• Advanced data analytical skills using financial ratios.
• Fluent in English with clear, consistent and purposeful communication
• Experience in reporting tools – Power BI, Knime

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