Job Description Americold Job Description Job Title: Snr Director, Corporate Controller Job Code: TBC Pay Grade: TBC Reports to: VP Finance (CFO) Exempt FORMCHECKBOX Non-Exempt FORMCHECKBOX Bonus: 20% Primary Responsibility: Successfully support VP Finance (CFO) by leading the core Finance teams, including: Management Reporting and General Ledger / QSR Accounting teams, Tax and Treasury team, Shared Services teams and the Corporate Reporting team.Successfully meeting expectations, challenging and developing the team, analyzing and explaining results, maintaining a well-controlled and accurate accounting environment ensuring financial statements / reporting and disclosures are in accordance with USGAAP and IFRS.Essential Functions: 1.Responsible for overall aspects of the finance team functions; including general ledgers, sub-ledgers, month / quarter / year-end close, fixed assets, lease accounting, tax and treasury, shared services, corporate reporting and adherence to internal controls processes and applications.2.Ensure finance teams are strong and reliable business partners to both the local functional and Atlanta head office functional teams.3.Ensure compliance with all related SOX controls.4.Ensure compliance with all REIT controls.5.Coordinate month / quarter / year-end close with countries, sites, and internal departments in adherence to agreed timetables.6.Lead external audit and income tax compliance ensuring compliance with USGAAP, IFRS and Income Tax requirements.Including managing the income tax compliance framework for ANZ ensuring compliance with relevant tax regulations, including acting as Public Officer.7.Monthly management and reporting for all significant judgments and estimates.8.Preparation of executive level presentations.9.Ownership of accounting policy, procedures and internal controls.10.Ensures that financial and accounting records are prepared, maintained, and reported in accordance with USGAAP and applicable governmental regulations.11.Recruit, hire, train, coach and retain staff.Ensure compliance with employment laws.12.Monitor, evaluate and influence progress toward departmental goals.13.Ensure research and draft technical memoranda on proposed transactions or on new accounting pronouncements correctly comply with USGAAP and IFRS.14.Co-lead (with FP&A) the preparation of the annual budgets and monthly forecasts.15.Strategically partner with other departments to meet company objectives, ensure compliance with company SOX controls.16. Review and approve journal entries, analysis and reconciliations as required, ensuring compliance with SOX and relevant internal controls.17.Provide on-boarding training to various positions throughout the organization as it relates to Accounting matters.18.Ensure IT systems upgrades/enhancements as it relates to accounting systems, including creating and performing test scripts are delivered within agreed timing and UAT processes.19.Other tasks and responsibilities, as assigned.Education, Training & Professional Experience: · Bachelor degree in Accounting or Finance is required, · CPA or CA qualified, · 7+ years Big 4 or top tier national accounting experience required, · 10+ years of related senior accounting, tax and treasury management experience, · Thorough understanding of USGAAP, IFRS and SOX requirements, · Strong computer skills required.Experience with Oracle, BW, BPC (or comparable ERP Systems), Onesource (or equivalent) and Microsoft Office applications preferred.Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: · Ability to perform well under pressure and in a high-volume and changing environment, · Demonstrates consistency, flexibility and commitment to meet deadlines, · Self-starter who relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, · Ability to communicate effectively to direct and motivate team and others, maintaining a persuasive and credible presentation style at all levels of the organization, · Live and represent the organization's goals and objectives, · Effectively able to leverage team and drive results, · Experience leading teams of professionals preferred, · Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, including ability to resolve disputes and observe confidentiality, · Some travel required (~10%) Physical Requirements: The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.· Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions, · Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending, · Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work, · Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks, · May require travel by automobile and airplane for business, · May required to visit facility operation in temperatures at or below freezing, · May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 10 kg, · Requires the use of various electronic tools, · Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes, · Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executive management.Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.Work Environment: To perform the essential functions of this job the associate may spend time in the field with facility management, and may be required to travel to multiple locations in the APAC region or North America.Associate must be able to communicate to and receive communication from others in written and verbal form, operate and be proficient in the use of various management tools.Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities.Corporate Controller Assistant Controller Senior Finance Manager Senior Tax and Treasury Manager Tax and Treasury Accountant Shared Services Team Supervisor Accounting Teams Fixed Assets Accountant Financial Reporting Manager Payables Team Receivables Team Assistant Controller October 2024