[Hiring] Accounting Operations Manager @Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA

Role Description

The Accounting Operations Manager plays a pivotal leadership role in building and strengthening the accounting operations of the Holistic Health standalone business. This role oversees intercompany accounting, banking operations, fixed assets, balance sheet reconciliations, and related accounting activities while ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant accounting and financial reporting.

The Manager leads and develops the Accounting Operations team, resolves complex accounting matters, and drives standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across the function. Partnering closely with Corporate Reporting, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Technology, Supply Chain, auditors, and business teams, this role strengthens governance, internal controls, close execution, audit readiness, systems, and scalable standalone capabilities. Through strong cross-functional leadership and talent development, the Manager helps reduce financial risk, improve operational effectiveness, and build a high-performing Accounting Operations function positioned for long-term success.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end accounting operations across intercompany transactions, banking, fixed assets, balance sheet reconciliations, and other assigned general accounting areas.
• Manage month-end and quarter-end close processes, ensuring timely, accurate, and efficient execution.
• Monitor compliance with the Transitional Services Agreement (TSA) with Nestlé, ensuring requirements and obligations are effectively managed.
• Own balance sheet integrity, ensuring journal entries, reconciliations, settlements, eliminations, and reporting schedules are accurate, complete, and delivered within monthly, quarterly, and annual close timelines.
• Oversee intercompany receivables and payables, loans, interest, royalties, allocations, confirmations, settlements, and eliminations, while proactively resolving aged balances and discrepancies.
• Oversee bank reconciliations and the resolution of outstanding items and control exceptions, partnering with Treasury on cash reporting, bank governance, access, payments, and banking transitions.
• Oversee fixed asset additions, transfers, disposals, depreciation, reconciliations, and reporting in accordance with capitalization and accounting policies.
• Strengthen accounting policies, procedures, controls, and documentation to support audit readiness, compliance, and effective shared service performance.
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships across Finance, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Technology, Supply Chain, Shared Services, Audit, and business teams.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Accounting Operations team by establishing clear priorities, providing timely feedback, and strengthening technical, analytical, digital, and business-partnering capabilities.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, agility, and adaptability, guiding through business transformation, process simplification, and digital innovation while influencing stakeholders to embrace new technologies, streamlined processes, and evolving business priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field required; CPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant advanced credential preferred.
• 8–10 years of progressive accounting or finance experience, including experience in accounting operations, intercompany accounting, financial reporting, banking, fixed assets, and/or balance sheet reconciliations.
• 3+ years of people leadership, supervisory, or comparable team leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, intercompany accounting and eliminations, fixed asset accounting, financial reporting, internal controls, and audit requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex financial close activities, resolve high-risk accounting matters, and oversee shared service, outsourced, and/or offshore teams.
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, or comparable ERP systems, as well as consolidation, reconciliation, workflow, and/or financial close tools.
• Experience leading or supporting finance system implementations, automation, data migrations, testing, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required; experience with Power BI, Power Query, Power Automate, robotic process automation (RPA), or comparable tools preferred.
• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and prioritization skills, with a proactive, results-oriented approach and sound business judgment.
• Proven ability to lead effectively in a transformational environment, demonstrating agility, adaptability, and strategic leadership while driving change, influencing stakeholders, and delivering results amid evolving business priorities.

Requirements

• Salary: $130,000.00 to $140,000.00 per year
• Bonus Eligibility: Yes

Benefits

• Performance-based incentives
• Competitive total rewards package
• 401k with company match
• Healthcare coverage
• A broad range of other benefits