India Nutrition Controlling Manager serves as the finance controllership leader for the India Nutrition business (both Human Nutrition & Animal Nutrition). The role is responsible for safeguarding the integrity of financial reporting, ensuring compliance with US GAAP, Local GAAP and ADM accounting policies, maintaining a robust internal control environment, and providing independent financial stewardship to support sustainable business growth. The position partners closely with Business, Operations, Supply Chain and BU Finance teams and Corporate Finance teams to provide financial governance, risk management, operational excellence, and strategic decision support while ensuring the highest standards of financial compliance and controllership.
Your Responsibilities1.
Financial
Controllership & Financial Statement Governance
- Lead month-end, quarter-end and year-end financial close activities for the India Nutrition business.
- Ensure complete, accurate and timely financial reporting under US GAAP, Local GAAP and ADM accounting policies.
- Review financial statements, journal entries, accounting estimates and significant transactions.
- Assess accounting implications of new business activities and recommend appropriate accounting treatments.
- Ensure compliance with corporate accounting policies, reporting requirements and financial governance standards.
- Review monthly financial results and proactively identify financial risks, unusual transactions and reporting issues.
- Review financial performance against prior year and analyze key financial drivers and provide recommendations for performance improvement.
2.
Balance Sheet
Governance
- Own the governance framework for the Balance Sheet.
- Lead monthly Balance Sheet Review meetings.
- Review reconciliation quality, aging balances and outstanding reconciling items.
- Drive timely resolution of balance sheet issues.
- Ensure compliance with Blackline reconciliation policies and corporate governance requirements.
- Strengthen balance sheet controls through continuous monitoring and root cause analysis.
3. Cost Accounting & Inventory Controllership
- Lead SAP product costing and standard cost governance.
- Ensure inventory valuation complies with US GAAP, Local GAAP and ADM accounting policies.
- Review inventory provisions including LOCOM/NRV assessments.
- Monitor manufacturing variances, inventory accuracy and costing controls.
- Partner with Operations to strengthen manufacturing finance processes and inventory governance.
- Ensure costing methodologies remain appropriate and consistently applied.
4.
Internal
Controls, Compliance & Risk Management
- Maintain an effective internal control environment across the India Nutrition business.
- Ensure compliance with SOX, US GAAP, Local GAAP and corporate accounting policies.
- Coordinate internal and external audits.
- Drive timely remediation of audit findings.
- Evaluate financial and operational risks and recommend mitigation actions.
- Review financial governance for new business initiatives, commercial agreements and process changes.