Senior Manager, Central Controllership

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Job Description

Reporting to the Associate Director, Controllership, the Senior Manager, Central Controllership is a key leadership role within the Controlling organization. The position oversees central controllership activities across the business units and functions supported by the team, ensuring high-quality deliverables and effective stakeholder partnerships. The Senior Manager leads controllership initiatives, drives process improvement, standardization, and automation, and guides cross-functional teams toward shared objectives. The role also promotes a strong control environment, proactively identifies opportunities to strengthen controllership practices, and supports the continued expansion of the team’s capabilities.

How you will contribute:

• Deliver high-quality controllership activities across entities, business units, and functions while ensuring consistent execution while building strong relationships with key stakeholders.
• Provide oversight and review of financial statements and reporting to support accuracy, completeness, and compliance with accounting standards. Identify unusual trends, inconsistencies, and areas requiring further investigation, lead root cause analysis, and drive appropriate and timely resolution.
• Oversee timely and high-quality P&L and Balance Sheet fluctuation analysis, challenging significant or unusual movements, ensuring underlying drivers are understood, and driving appropriate follow-up actions.
• Strengthen the internal control environment and support compliance with SOX, financial regulations, and operational standards by monitoring effectiveness, promoting consistent practices, addressing escalated matters and driving remediation of identified gaps and audit findings.
• Oversee the review and resolution of segregation of duties conflicts, challenging business and system access requirements and partnering with stakeholders to recommend role changes, access redesign, or effective mitigating controls that reduce the risk and support compliance.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of financial policies, procedures and standards, providing controllership expertise and promoting consistent application across the organization.
• Lead complex and ad hoc controllership activities applying sound judgement to assess financial and operational implications, coordinate across stakeholders, and drive matters through resolution.
• Drive continuous improvement across controllership processes through standardization, simplification, process optimization and automation, identifying opportunities to strengthen controls while improving efficiency and scalability.