Location : Mohali 

City : Mohali 

State : Punjab (IN-PB) 

Country : India (IN) 

Requisition Number : 32727 

Job Title:                     Record-to-Report (RTR) Associate Manager, Bunge Business Services, Mohali, India

 

 

Job Purpose

 

Bunge Limited (www.bunge.com, NYSE: BG) is a leading global agribusiness and food company operating in over 40 countries with approximately 31,000 employees. Bunge buys, sells, stores and transports oilseeds and grains to serve customers worldwide; processes oilseeds to make protein meal for animal feed and edible oil products for commercial customers and consumers; produces sugar and ethanol from sugarcane; mills wheat, corn and rice to make ingredients used by food companies; and sells fertilizer in South America. Founded in 1818, the company is headquartered in St. Louis, MO, US. Bunge has implemented a Shared Services Center in Mohali, India to support Global Operations in areas of Finance & Accounting, Trade Operations, Treasury and IT Support and other back office support Services

 

The Record-to-Report (RTR) Associate Manager will be the owner and will lead a team of Team Leaders, Executives and Officers on Accounting (General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Intercompany), Local & Global reporting, Tax filing & reporting, Period-end close & reporting including planning, management, and delivery of a business services.

 

 

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the timely completion of activities as part of the Record-to-Report (RTR) function – Accounting (General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Intercompany), Local & Global reporting, Tax filing & reporting, Period-end close & reporting and Master data management
• Preparation of standalone and consolidated IND AS\ USGAAP\IFRS financial statement for statutory reporting along with related schedules and notes to accounts.
• Responsible for finalization of monthly and quarterly reporting (Balance sheet, income statement, cash flow) as per US GAAP including 10k reporting schedules under US Security Exchange Commission.    
• Manage the team performance and ensure delivery of timely output as per the defined SLAs
• Strong knowledge of the Month End closing (MEC) tasks in the SAP environment.
• Accountable for evaluating, reconciling and resolving complex accounting transactions and ensuring reconciliations of accounts
• Monitor and measure the performance of the RTR business process in the Mohali Centre
• Improve the business process flow on a continual basis utilizing industry leading practices
• Help Team Leaders setting policies and procedures for the RTR process
• Act as key contact person for all internal and external groups (Bunge Global, Counterparties and Statutory team) which affect / are affected by the RTR process
• Assist team in trouble shooting and decision making
• Identify changes to long term resource needs and implements appropriate actions
• Ensure role alignment of individuals
• Identify, assess and select resources
• Facilitate performance assessments and conducts feedback sessions
• Determine and adjusts team and individual performance measures
• Support in decisions related to monetary and non-monetary compensation / rewards within established guidelines
• Ensure compliance with Group’s Sarbanes Oxley programme and Standard Policy and Procedures
• Provide valuable feedback to staff through annual performance appraisals and goal settings programme

 

Knowledge and Experience

Essential:

• 8+ years of work experience in a similar role
• Experience in Agribusiness/Commodity trading industry preferred 
• Minimum Education Qualification – Chartered Accountant or CPA. Additional certification in US GAAP or IFRS will be an advantage
• Experience in managing people and processes through a sustained period of change
• Eye for details and the ability to view the financials from a Financial Controller standpoint
• Ability to provide high quality level of customer service for end-to-end Accounting & reporting process
• Ability to partner with other BBS Team Managers to optimize processes across the SSC
• Ability to manage the BBS vision and purpose
• Strong written & oral communications skills in English. Knowledge of Asian or European languages added advantage.
• Strong problem solving & organization skills
• Excellent computer skills and competency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)
• Experience in ERP systems

 

Distinct Advantage

• Experience working in a similar Shared Services Centre setup, a distinct advantage
• Prior experience in transitioning/migrating work f