Manager, Corporate Accounting, Global Investments and Requisitions

About Ingredion:

Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you’ve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet’s food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether you’re just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there's a place for you here to make a real difference. Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create.

LOCATION:     Westchester, Illinois

WORKPLACE TYPE: On-site/Hybrid

The Manager, Corporate Accounting, Global Investments and Integrations is responsible for leading legal entity management, M&A transaction support, and the transaction and accounting workstreams for investments in (or divestitures of) joint ventures, intellectual property, intangible assets, and acquisitions, including integrating financial systems of newly acquired entities into SAP Central Finance (CFIN) and overseeing processes for intersegment transactions. This role requires a strategic thinker and hands-on leader with expertise in technical accounting, systems integrations, and cross-functional collaboration. This position plays a critical part in onboarding investments to our accounting processes, supporting integration of acquired entities, and ensuring financial integrity and system harmonization across an expanding, global corporate structure that maintains multiple ERP instances across multiple operating and reporting segments.  This role will report to the Director of SEC Reporting and Technical Accounting.

What you will do:

• Global Investment Accounting
  • Oversee accounting for corporate and global investments, intellectual property and intangible assets, partnerships, joint ventures, and acquisitions across global entities
  • Responsibilities may also include divestitures that we elect to align our resources for strategic growth
  • Ensure accurate consolidation and equity method accounting per U.S. GAAP
  • Coordinate compliance with Ingredion Accounting Policies, which are in accordance with U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting requirements
  • Design controls for accounting and financial reporting risks for investment activities
  • Perform purchase accounting, coordinate valuations of acquired assets and liabilities, and assist with pro forma financial reporting and SEC disclosure filings, as required
  • Set up accounting for intercompany transactions and legal entities, including eliminations and foreign currency impacts, for new mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
  • Coordinate recording ongoing income/loss financial results for investments, including equity method investments
  • Identify facts and circumstances that require testing for potential impairment of investments and intangible assets, and set up documentation of impairment testing
  • Support purchase accounting and post-acquisition finance system alignment
  • Evaluate and resolve accounting differences between legacy systems and Ingredion’s SAP CFIN
  • Draft technical memos and accounting position papers for material transactions and routine assessments
  • Engage with external Big 4 auditor and segment controllers to ensure proper accounting and controls for investments and integrations, including establishing and updating opening balance sheets, evaluating and coordinating adjustments to opening balance sheets, and modifying depreciation and amortization as required during the integration period
• SAP CFIN Integration Leadership
  • Drive successful financial integration of acquired companies into a unified SAP CFIN “book of record” environment
  • Assist acquired companies with financial solutions required to maintain effective internal controls for financial reporting and SOX controls
  • Lead data mapping, process harmonization, and chart of account alignment across entities
  • Serve as the accounting SME in SAP CFIN projects, collaborating with IT, FP&A, and Internal Audit
  • Design and implement scalable processes to pull in data from decentralized ERP instances, including SAP S/4hana and SAP ECC, and optimize reporting performance
• Month-End & Reporting
  • Oversee timely month-end close for integrated entities
  • Ensure consolidated reporting is accurate and automated via CFIN functionality
  • Partner with corporate consolidation team on intercompany eliminations and financial analysis
  • Set up, modify or coordinate financial reporting interfaces with Workiva Wdesk, SAP Group Reporting, and SAC planning
• Controls & Compliance
  • Implement interna