Director – Financial Accounting and Reporting

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

As a leader within Alcoa, you can help us fulfill our purpose and realize our vision to reinvent the aluminum industry. Be part of the team that is helping shape a better workplace with a better work-life balance and the equal opportunities that help everyone thrive. You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the Role:

Alcoa is seeking a Director – Financial Accounting and Reporting to join the Corporate Controllership team based in the Alcoa Corporate Center in Pittsburgh, PA. An exciting and meaningful role at the center of Alcoa’s in-house expertise on technical accounting matters.  The Corporate Controllership team consists of highly qualified CPAs with extensive experience in financial accounting and business matters. Situated next to Alcoa’s Executive Team, this is a highly visible role.

This role requires the candidate to leverage their exceptional project management skills, technical research expertise, and top-notch communication capabilities to advance Alcoa’s sustainability reporting, to provide expert accounting guidance across the global organization and to review the monthly consolidated financial results. 

The role offers a high degree of learning opportunities in terms of Alcoa’s business, sustainability initiatives, and other complex accounting and reporting topics. This role will have considerable ongoing interaction with a wide group of stakeholders across the company including Alcoa’s Sustainability and Strategy Teams, Financial Planning & Analysis, Commercial, Regional Financial Accounting, Legal, Communications, Tax, and Treasury Teams.

The role requires an execution-focused, research-oriented, collaborative, innovative thinker, with outstanding communication and project management skills who demonstrates the highest level of integrity and trust. This role reports to the Vice President, Controller.

Major activities include:

• Manage one accountant responsible for sustainability reporting and oversee all aspects sustainability reporting requirements.
• Review monthly segment, legal entity and operations level financial results and summarize findings for senior financial management, and the Board of Directors.
• Provide technical accounting guidance across the global organization for Alcoa’s most complex accounting and reporting topics in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
• Present key issues and updates to executive management related to technical accounting, sustainability and external reporting matters as required.
• Participate in activities related to the quarterly reviews and the annual audit performed by external auditors.

What you can bring to this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• CPA certification required
• Thorough knowledge of US GAAP, including SEC reporting requirements
• 12+ years of accounting experience, and one of the following:
  • Minimum 4 years of experience in public accounting
  • Minimum 4 years of experience within an external reporting team of a publicly traded manufacturing company

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation packages, including pay-for performance variable pay, recognition and rewards programs, and stock-based compensation awards (3-year vesting schedule)
• Flexible spending accounts and generous employer contribution to the HSA
• 401(k), employer match up to 6%, additional employer retirement income contribution (no vesting period), and a nonqualified deferred compensation plan
• Holiday Pay: 10 holidays and one flexible holiday of your choice.
• 8 hours of Paid annual volunteer hours
• Alcoa has been chosen as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces 2023 by Newsweek

About the Location

Working at the Pittsburgh Alcoa Corporate Center, located on the thriving North Shore of Pittsburgh, allows employees to experience firsthand, whether working virtually or on-site or a hybrid of the two, what being a values-based company means. Through daily interactions with colleagues and exposure to some of the organization’s highest-level executives, the office creates an environment in which all employees can develop and contribute to their full potential. Outside of the office, Pittsburgh itself is one of the country’s most livable and affordable cities – combining the city feel with small town charm.

We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progre