Manager of Corporate Accounting - Military Veterans

At Suntory Global Spirits, we craft spirits of the highest quality and deliver brilliant experiences to people around the world. Suntory Global Spirits has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company ... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Suntory Global Spirits is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day.

What makes this a great opportunity?

Responsible for all global cash flow related deliverables, including budgeting, forecasting and reporting actual results in both statutory and management views.

Manage accounting tasks related to the corporate general ledger, including review of journal entries, account reconciliations, financial statement analysis and ensuring appropriate accounting of various corporate matters.

Oversee staff's development, reviews workpapers, provides guidance, coaching and issue resolution

Role Responsibilities

• Cash flow budgeting and forecasting
  • Responsible for delivery of consolidated mid-term plan, monthly budget, latest estimates (LE) and S&OP.
  • Facilitate regional deliverables, including coordination with various corporate and regional teams, as well as review input templates utilized in gathering budget and forecast deliverables.
  • Lead regional discussions with various controllership teams to understand cash flow forecast and budget methodology; maintains version control to explain change in budget for every iteration.
• Cash flow results, presentation and reporting
  • Report actuals in management view (both regional and consolidated) on a monthly basis
  • Responsible for completion of prior year comparable, including explanation of impact due to change in management foreign exchange rates and removal of non-recurring transactions.
  • Report actuals in statutory view on a semi-annual basis, including explanation and commentary on current period vs. prior period changes.
  • Review all rollforwards in support of cash flow preparation to ensure completeness and accuracy.
  • Manage deliverables to parent company and ELT, such as Hyperion submission, board deck with explanations for balance sheet and cash flow flux on actual vs. budget performance

Long Description

• Serve as main point of contact for inquiries on cash flow from various stakeholders such as FP&A, parent company, and auditors, internal and external.
• Manage certain monthly close and corporate accounting tasks such as lease accounting and derivatives accounting.
• Consolidation Support
  • Prepare monthly and semi-annual schedules and reports to parent company.
  • Support regional accounting teams in analysis and resolution of accounting issues related to monthly reporting process.
  • Assist with audits of financial statements and semi-annual reporting package.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with Regional Controllers and Global Business Services teams to ensure accurate and unified presentation of consolidated financial statements.
• Oversee staff preparation of monthly and quarterly financial workpapers. Provide guidance and issue resolution in monthly financial reporting.
• Support other ad hoc reporting requests such as preparation of financial statements for required government reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting
• CPA designation preferred
• Three plus years of working experience with public accounting and/or companies of similar size
• Experience in a leadership role with demonstrated success in growing the accounting/ finance team in a rapid growth, fast-paced environment
• Ability to work effectively with internal staff members, senior leadership, external partners, directors, tax and legal advisors
• Working knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards
• Knowledge of SAP and EPM reporting systems is a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Knowledge of compliance with the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley, including identifying and documenting key controls and processes, assisting with remediation activities, and supporting related internal controls testing

At Suntory Global Spirits, people are our number one priority, and we believe our people grow together in diverse and inclusive environments where their unique insights, experiences and backgrounds are valued and respected. Suntory Global Spirits is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, military veteran status and all other characteristics, attributes or choices protected by law. All recruitment and hiring decisions are based on an applicant's skills and experience.