15 Oct
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Kraft Heinz
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Ahmedabad
15 Oct
Kraft Heinz
Ahmedabad
1.
Statutory
Reporting, Roll forwards &
- Reconciliation Governance - Manage and oversee the roll forward of Workiva financials for non-leading ledgers across in-scope entities, ensuring consistent application of statutory reporting templates, data flows, and review practices.
- Reconcile Workiva outputs, non-leading ledger balances, and statutory financial statements back to signed accounts and underlying SAP records, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and audit readiness.
- Drive consistency in roll forwards, reconciliations, controls, templates, and supporting documentation across entities, with a focus on repeatable execution and scalable ways of working.
- Non-Leading Ledger Adjustments &
- Technical Accounting Support - Book, review, or coordinate the posting of statutory adjustments in the non-leading ledger within SAP, ensuring adjustments are complete, accurate, properly supported, and reflected consistently in statutory reporting outputs.
- Investigate, analyze, and document accounting matters under US GAAP, IFRS, and local statutory reporting requirements to support appropriate financial statement presentation and application.
- Apply qualified judgment to assess auditor questions, challenge requests where appropriate, and support Controllership and HQ teams in resolving technical accounting or reporting matters.
- Workiva SME Ownership &
- Technology Enablement - Act as the subject matter expert for Workiva financials, providing guidance to Business Units, HQ, Controllership, and GBS teams on system use, process design, mapping logic, and reporting requirements.
- Support mapping changes, remapping, new entity onboarding, additional business unit requirements, technical queries, and issue resolution as more entities adopt Workiva.
- Evaluate opportunities to improve technology platforms, including Workiva, and partner with HQ, IT, Digital Finance,
and external vendors to enhance controls, automation, reporting efficiency, and user experience. 4.
Audit
Support &
- Stakeholder Management - Serve as a key GBS point of contact for statutory audit activities across in-scope entities, including interim audits, year-end audits, audit preparation, audit evidence coordination, and first-line review of comments.
- Support the HQ team in deriving any necessary statutory adjustments during the with preparation and first-level review of Workiva financials and in drafting responses to audit comments, ensuring all responses are accurate, timely, and appropriately supported with documentation before escalation.
- Build solid relationships with Controllership, External Audit, Business Units, HQ, Internal Controls, and GBS ATR leadership to support timely decision-making, issue resolution, and consistent statutory reporting execution.
- GBS Expansion, Process Standardization &
- Future COE Capability - Support the phased centralization of statutory reporting activities into GBS, beginning with the pilot scope and expanding one business unit or entity group at a time based on complexity, readiness, and business need.
- Develop repeatable processes, templates, controls, and governance structures that enable a future statutory reporting Center of Excellence capability within GBS ATR.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and strengthen statutory reporting processes, including roll forwards, manual journal posting,
reconciliations, audit support, and Workiva administration. 1.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Professional accounting qualification preferred, such as CPA, CA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent. 2.
- Strong experience in statutory reporting, external audit, controllership, technical accounting, or Account to Report processes, preferably within a multinational or shared services environment.
- Big 4 external audit experience strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting statutory audits, interim audits, financial statement preparation, audit evidence coordination, and auditor query resolution.
- Experience with SAP or equivalent ERP systems required, including understanding of leading ledger and non-leading ledger mechanics, manual journal posting, and statutory adjustment flows.
- Experience with Workiva or similar financial reporting, statutory reporting, or disclosure management platforms preferred. 3.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, statutory reporting requirements, US GAAP, IFRS, and local reporting considerations.
- Strong judgment and ability to analyze accounting questions, assess financial reporting implications, and appropriately challenge or push back on auditor requests where needed.
- Strong reconciliation, review, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and focus on control quality.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across Controllership, HQ, Business Units, External Audit, IT, Digital Finance, and GBS leadership.
- Ability to build scalable processes, support change management, and contribute to the development of a future statutory reporting Center of Excellence.
- Fluent in English.
📌 Manager, Stauotory Report (Ahmedabad)
🏢 Kraft Heinz
📍 Ahmedabad