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Senior Financial Controller

Plainsboro, NJ

Hybrid

Join our dynamic team as a Senior Financial Controller and play a pivotal role in shaping the financial landscape of our organization! In this key position, you will coordinate, monitor, and analyze our Legal Entity's financial statements, ensuring compliance with IFRS standards as well as local laws and regulations. This role goes beyond compliance; it’s a chance to make a significant impact on our financial integrity and strategic direction. Your expertise will drive informed decision-making and foster transparency across the organization. If you’re ready to lead with excellence and contribute to our mission of achieving great things, we want to hear from you!

At dsm-firmenich, being a force for good is not optional. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is a shared responsibility woven into our daily work, benefiting to our People, Customers & Communities and driving business value. Equal access to opportunities is a given, belonging is a shared feeling, authenticity is celebrated.

Responsibilities:

• Lead timely and accurate delivery of financial actuals, collaborating with Business Unit (BU) Finance and business teams.

• Perform thorough analytical review of financial statements, including variance analysis and comparisons to prior periods.

• Ensure compliance with accounting standards to maintain integrity of financial statements and management reports.

• Monitor the Balance Sheet, address open items, perform and review reconciliations, and identify and resolve discrepancies.

• Oversee financial closing process, lead pre-close meetings, define and implement mitigation actions to address issues, and drive improvements to meet deadlines and ensure correctness of actuals.​

• Coordinate documentation for accruals, provisions, and special items, support audits, budget preparation, and act as SAP FICO key user.

We bring:

• Opportunities for growth and advancement for those who embrace innovation and take initiative.

• Collaboration with experts in health, nutrition, and beauty to drive progress.

• Customer-first approach, working with world-renowned brands to turn ideas into impactful solutions.

• Opportunity to build a career making a significant impact on billions of lives, with the freedom to shape your own path.

• Dedication to creating better futures for customers, communities, people, and the planet.

• Supportive environment where individuals are empowered to progress and contribute to meaningful change.

You bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, CPA and/or MBA preferred.

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in Accounting/Controlling, in a Manufacturing environment with costing experience.

• Proficient understanding of Finance and Accounting processes.

• Experience working in a shared service model or matrixed organization.

• SAP experience required, S4 HANA PC experience a plus.

• Ability to communicate effectively with both external and internal stakeholders.

dsm-firmenich is fully dedicated to inclusion because when people feel engaged and empowered, their creativity and innovation drives unprecedented progress. We aim to build a workplace where opportunity really is equal, so everyone can thrive. We do not discriminate: there’s a place for everyone at dsm-firmenich.

As a committed equal opportunity employer, we ensure our recruitment practices are inclusive and fair. We encourage the recruitment of a diverse workforce, representative of the communities in which we work, by using inclusive language, diverse interview panels, diversified sourcing strategies. Selection is based on qualifications, competency, experience, performance history and fit with the team to advance fair and equitable opportunity.

Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, backgrounds, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

We are committed to providing reasonable support for disabled applicants in our recruiting process. Should you need assistance, and are comfortable to share this, please let us know.

About dsm-firmenich

As innovators in nutrition, health, and beauty, dsm-firmenich reinvents, manufactures, and combines vital nutrients, flavors, and fragrances for the world’s growing population to thrive. With our comprehensive range of solutions, with natural and renewable ingredients and renowned science and technology capabilities, we work to create what is essential for life, desirable for consumers, and more sustainable for the planet. dsm-firmenich is a Swiss-Dutch company, listed on the Euronext Amsterdam, with operations in almost 60 countries and revenues of more than €12 billion. With a diverse, worldwide team of nearly 30,000 employees, we bring progress to life™ every day, everywhere, for billions of people. www.dsm-firmenich.com

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