Senior Finance Analyst-Intragroup Accounting Operations

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Job Summary

As a member of the Accounting Operations function, the Senior Finance Analyst (Intragroup Accounting Operations) is responsible for overseeing onshore and offshore intragroup accounting activities and ensuring accurate and timely recording, reconciliation, settlement, elimination, and reporting of related-party transactions. The scope includes intercompany receivables and payables, loans, royalties, interest income and expense, and other intragroup activities.

The role requires a strong understanding of accounting and business operations, exceptional analytical skills, sound judgment, and the ability to solve complex business and accounting challenges. The Senior Analyst collaborates with operating companies and cross-functional teams, including Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Corporate Accounting, Consolidation, Technology, and Shared Services, to streamline processes and maintain strong working relationships across entities.

This position works with all operating companies in the U.S. market and supports their intragroup accounting transformation and change management initiatives. The Senior Analyst also serves as a subject matter expert for strategic programs, including Legal Entity Rationalization (LER), mergers, divestitures, entity integrations and dissolutions, SAP deconsolidation, system implementations, and other organizational transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert for intragroup accounting activities across assigned legal entities and operating companies, ensuring compliance with Nestlé Accounting Standards and company policies.
• Ensure accurate and timely accounting, reconciliation, settlement, elimination, and reporting of intragroup transactions while maintaining financial integrity and transparency.
• Lead the resolution of aged intragroup balances, reconciliation exceptions, and recurring accounting issues through root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
• Review and analyze end-to-end accounting and business processes to identify opportunities for standardization, simplification, automation, digital enablement, and enhanced controls.
• Lead and support process transformation and change management initiatives, ensuring successful implementation and adoption of new processes, systems, tools, and ways of working.
• Act as the Intragroup Accounting lead or key contributor for Legal Entity Rationalization initiatives, including mergers, dissolutions, integrations, restructurings, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Assess and coordinate the accounting impacts of strategic projects, including legal entity changes, ERP implementations, SAP deconsolidations, and business transformation programs.
• Partner with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Corporate Accounting, Consolidation, Technology, Shared Services, and business stakeholders to deliver effective accounting and operational solutions.
• Develop and maintain governance frameworks, internal controls, standard operating procedures, and documentation that support compliance, audit readiness, and operational excellence.
• Develop and communicate meaningful analytics, dashboards, key performance indicators, and management reporting to provide insight into operational performance, project progress, risks, and improvement opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
• Advanced Excel experience with data visualization or automation tools required.

• Minimum of four years of progressive experience in accounting, financial analysis, or related finance operations, preferably in a shared service center or multinational organization.
• Experience with SAP or a similar ERP system and Microsoft applications; advanced Excel and experience with data visualization or automation tools preferred.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, intragroup accounting, reconciliations, eliminations, and related-party reporting requirements.
• Experience leading or supporting process improvement, transformation, automation, and change management initiatives.
• Experience collaborating with offshore or global shared service teams and influencing stakeholders across functions and entities preferred.

Skills

• Analytical thinking and problem solving; uses data, accounting knowledge, and root-cause analysis to address complex problems.
• Attention to detail; reviews information carefully to ensure accuracy, completeness, and financial integrity.
• Communication and business partnership; explains financial concepts clearly and adapts communication to the audience.
• Collaboration and stakeholder influence; builds trusted relationships and helps drive outcomes across functions, entities, and service teams.
• Accountability and initiative; follows through on commitments, takes appropriate ownership, and operates effectively with limited supervision.
• Results focus and prioritization; manages multiple priorities and supports delivery of high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Digital and continuous improvement mindset; identifies opportunities for automation, visualization, standardization, and simplification.

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Salary: $79,436.70 to $113,401.00 per year

Bonus Eligibility: Yes

The pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range.

Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits.  Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at https://www.nestlejobs.com/nestle-in-the-us-benefits 

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