Corporate Controlling and Accounting Manager

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that's transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It's our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win - adapting quickly in an everchanging world - and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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Job Description

Job Overview

The Controlling and Accounting Manager role is part of the Corporate Controlling Team and is responsible to effectively manage several corporate cost centers, ensuring that cost control and all accounting aspects are accurate. This role will work closely with key corporate functions to provide strategic financial support, perform cost analyses, and facilitate financial planning and forecasting.

This role is instrumental in managing budget adherence and cost efficiency across corporate departments, offering insights and recommendations that align with Amcor's corporate financial goals. The role requires partnering with functional and divisional leaders, including SMT member, as well as close collaboration with shared services resources (GL accounting, payroll, accounts payable, treasury, cash and banking) and other corporate finance functions (Global Treasury, Tax, Corporate Planning & Analysis, External Reporting teams).

Job Dimensions

The role reports to the Senior Manager, Corporate Finance and is part of the wider Management Reporting (Group Controlling Planning & Analysis) organization. Primary focus will be cost controlling and decision making support for functional leaders, planning and analysis activities combined with management reporting while ensuring that US GAAP accounting requirements are fully met.

The role will be based in Evansville (IN) or Oshkosh (WI) and is a full time permanent position.

Principal Accountabilities

Corporate Cost controlling and Finance Business Partnering

• Proactively manage functional cost performance by monitoring spend against budget and forecast, identifying risks and opportunities early, and driving corrective actions to achieve financial targets.
• Monthly forecast preparation ensuring accuracy and timeliness
• Develop a deep understanding of the underlying cost base, including vendor spend, cost categories, and project expenditures, to provide value-added analysis beyond actuals reporting.
• Identify OPPs by challenging spending patterns, partnering with Procurement and functional/ divisional leaders, and tracking the realization of cost-saving opportunities.
• Manage collaboration and finance business partnering with Corporate functions and act as primary point of contact
• Coordinate the planning/OP cycle to make sure all inputs are collected and analyzed timely and submission deadlines are met.
• Support in developing and maintaining reports and templates for the budget, forecast, data loads, MRPs/ MMRs, ensuring data integrity and accuracy
• Lead project-related financial analysis and manage project budgeting and forecasting (e.g. CAPEX).

Month-end Reporting and Analysis for corporate entities

• Support monthly and quarterly closings and management reporting of significant US management entities, reviewing and validating EBIT and cash flow
• Manage Corporate Cost submission and reporting for legacy Berry US entities and support the overall Global corporate results consolidation
• Lead cash flow forecast preparation and submission for the US entities, in particular implementing a process for cash flow forecasting and reporting for legacy Berry entities
• Manage day-to-day queries from the shared resources working on corporate entities and challenge processes to identify opportunities for optimization (e.g. cost allocations)

Compliance

• Balance sheet reviews and reconciliations of US entities in charge
• SOX Compliance and internal controls monitoring
• Manage Cash Flow actuals and forecasting and implement monthly processes for Cash Flow reporting in the US (mainly for legacy Berry entities)

Ad hoc Projects

• Provide support and contribute to ad hoc projects related to the area of responsibilities (e.g. optimization of cash flow forecasting)
• Contribute to projects related to significant transactions (Tax restructuring, M&A, etc.)

Qualifications/Requirements

• At least 7 years of working experience in finance, with proven hands-on involvement in accounting, controlling and monthly end-to-end reporting processes
• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance or Accounting
• Accounting qualification (CA, CPA, ACCA) preferred
• Has people management, line management or supervisoryexperience
• Experience in Consolidation and FP&A
• HFM experience strongly preferred / SAP FI/CO an advantage
• Strong Excel knowledge required
• Ability to manage ambiguity, and proven problem-solving capabilities
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor's quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor's consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor's leadership and products

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Benefits

When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision plans

• Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees

• Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location

• Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program

• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits

• Paid Parental Leave

• Retirement Savings Plan with company match

• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)

• Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)