Financial Accounting Global Team Leader

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.  From our new Hub in Pune, you will own important work that will enable our organization to succeed globally.  

Role Purpose: 

• Be a key and strategic player to link and enhance relationship between Latin-American finance teams and Accounting to Reporting team in LAO GBS, through proactive performance, analytical capability, high communication and issue resolution skills and commitment with results.

• Lead team which provide service of expense analysis, Balance sheet variation review, Internal control validations, accounting operation support and financial information reporting to corporation are the main activities for this role.

• The financial leader its responsible for reports accurate financial results and provides predictability by leading-guiding analysis that connects the financial information with the operational drivers and land in critical insights for decision making.

Role Accountabilities: 

• Guide the analysis of large amounts of data and derive insightful business-relevant operational Analytics and Consolidate data (budgets, considering company’s goals and financial standing) performed by the cluster analyst.

• Guarantee Accounting support to different stakeholders

• Ensure appropriate controls are followed in order to minimize errors and to provide accurate accounting information to Stakeholders. Apply financial and operating controls in compliance with CFIs, Code of Conduct, an ethical framework and internal procedures.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in gathering information and issue resolution. Work closely to ATR Front Office team

• Assure, through constant reviews, that accounting information is reliable and allows timely decision making by countries.

• Lead actions to resolve requirements from local finance teams, providing high quality adding value service for the business.  

• Lead periodic Financial meeting to provide visibility about trend expense variation of SMGA. Follow up of pending items pending to be booked or closed before month end

• Define action and Calendar to Submit different reports to Corporation in a monthly, quarterly and annual basis and Reconcile transactions by comparing and correcting data

• Provide innovative alternatives to improve financial performance. Identify trends and recommend actions to local teams and determine forward financial status by analyzing actual results operational drivers and forecasts.

• Support Management System methodology

• Be responsible for the reasonableness of Balance Sheet reasonableness through variations review, unnatural account clarification and providing explanation-justification to controller’s office. 

• Support projects and committees 

• Contribute to and often lead continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, adjust to changing conditions or improve internal control

• Ensure consistent application of established corporate financial controls and GAAP across accounting processes completed by local team as well as outsourced partners

• Provide support to the Controller’s office, business units and tax department for resolving questions and issues related to financial statements

• Be the direct contact for regional finance analyst  to review expense and BS reasonableness

Qualifications: 

• Degree in Accounting, Management or Finance, or equivalent years of experience.​

• 10+ years of Proven experience with forecasting, business analytics, financial reporting and accounting 

• SAP knowledge (desirable) and Microsoft Office tools (required)

• Advanced analytical skills

• Knowledge in Power BI and other data analysis tools (desirable)

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

And finally, the fine print….

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

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