Manager Technical Accounting - Decatur, IL

Overview

Manager, Technical Accounting - Chicago or Decatur, IL or Erlanger, KY

This is a full-time, exempt position.

Overview of Scope:

• Technical Accounting (TA) is primarily responsible for the preparation and filing of the Company’s Forms 10-Q, 10-K, and 8-K (Earnings Release) with the Securities and Exchange Commission, implementing new and updated accounting standards that are relevant to ADM, and providing support to the organization through the TA consultation service to ensure transactions are accounted for in accordance with U.S. GAAP. TA maintains the accounting policy library and works with policy owners within the various Centers of Excellence (COE) to ensure policies are updated to reflect changes to the accounting standards.
  
  Individuals within this group also review the impairment analysis performed by the Valuation COE and functional currency forms.
• Managers at ADM play a key role in ensuring that fundamental responsibilities of Accounting Services are completed in a timely and accurate manner. They build leadership skills by seeking formal and informal opportunities to develop and demonstrate abilities to lead and manage work and resources. Managers display a strong understanding of accounting systems and processes and demonstrate ability to apply creative solutions to situations.
  
  Managers also demonstrate strong skill in identifying opportunities for improvement to departmental accuracy, timeliness and efficiency, and implementing feasible solutions. Individual Contributor Managers have no direct supervisory responsibilities.
• This is an accounting position within TA with a high potential for career growth, increasing responsibility, and exposure to executive financial management. The position offers the opportunity to develop a broad knowledge of ADM s operations and consolidated financial information and is responsible for managing the accounting policy process and the technical accounting consultation process which includes the work performed by subject matter experts and performing technical accounting research.

• Concurrently serve as the North America TA Lead
• Maintain the accounting policy library and work with policy owners, subject matter experts, reviewers, and approvers on all aspects of the accounting policy work
• Manage the TA consultation process including the work performed by subject matter experts
• Provide TA guidance to the accounting organization and other departments
• Implement new accounting standards by recommending the appropriate accounting methods and procedures and communicating and coordinating these matters with the accounting organization and other departments
• Verify and/or prepare support for footnotes to ADM s quarterly and annual financial statements filed with the SEC
• Organize and maintain documentation and support for all departmental activities
• Assist management on special projects as needed
• Communicate with various levels of accounting management in the U.S. and international locations
• Assist in resolving accounting and disclosure comments from external auditors
• Constantly look for ways to improve current processes and develop new and more efficient processes

• Aligns goals to ensure that success is defined in terms of mutual objectives, both within and across departments
• Secures executive sponsorship that reinforces cross-functional efforts
• Works effectively across geographic, departmental, and organizational boundaries to positively influence the business

• Articulates especially complex matters in a way that is easily understood by people up and down the organization
• Coaches peers in the effective dissemination and presentation of information
• Creates and improves processes so information can be shared in a timely and effective manner

• Takes full responsibility for overall execution and delivery of critical tasks or projects
• Backs up commitments with planning (risk management, project management, contingency planning, etc.) that ensures the organization can deliver what is required
• Implements effective reporting systems that keep all…