Region South America - Administration Manager

A Ferrero é uma empresa familiar com uma visão verdadeiramente moderna e global, e a casa de marcas icônicas como Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® e Kinder Surprise®. À medida que o amor pelas nossas marcas continua a crescer, o mesmo acontece com nosso alcance global. Representado em mais de 50 países e com produtos vendidos em mais de 170, o Grupo Ferrero é amado por gerações em todo o mundo. O segredo do nosso sucesso global? 38,767 funcionários dedicados, que celebram o cuidado e a qualidade para criar um negócio, carreiras e marcas das quais nos orgulhamos. Junte-se a nós e seja um deles!

A Ferrero está comprometida em construir uma cultura diversificada e inclusiva, na qual todos os funcionários se sintam bem-vindos e apreciados e tenham oportunidades iguais. Acreditamos que todo o nosso pessoal tem o mesmo talento à sua maneira. Ao nutrir a curiosidade e as habilidades naturais de nossos funcionários, fornecemos a eles, geração após geração, os meios para ter sucesso pessoal e profissional, permitindo que eles planejem sua jornada na Ferrero. A diversidade de nossos talentos é o que torna nosso ambiente de trabalho multicultural, inovador e altamente recompensador.

Responsible for planning, organizing and managing the administration area ensuring all reports and records made in accordance with accounting and financial principles and standards, within the deadlines and standards established by the Ferrero Group and local regulatory bodies, with the objective of guarantee the visibility of the acts and facts that occurred in a timely manner through reports that will support the functional and management areas of the company. Responsible for being the link between Global and the administrative team of the Ferrero Company in Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina and Cile, assisting companies business function of the SAM region in regards of doubts and technical questions, guaranteeing the perfect accounting execution, managed interanlly as well as by BPO outsourced company. Responsible for planning and managing activities of the adminstrative area, including internal controls and consolidation of financial information, aiming to ensure the financial cycle, working capital management, sales credits and risk mitigation of the company, supporting the operation of the industrial and commercial areas. Accountable for managing people assigned, ensuring a management system based on Group values, motivation, diversity & inclusion, competence development and empowerment​
 

FINANCIAL STATEMENT CLOSURES​: Supervise monthly closures, ensures the respect of deadlines​ and ensure that accounting flows are compliant with Group reporting and local standards propperly reflecting the economic and financial situation of the company through the supervision of accounting routines and review of accounting reconciliations. When exceptional expenses concerning production service and related activities occurs, provide a related quantitative evaluation, in order to define balance adjustments. Ensure the timely recording of the monthly provisions requested by the areas through a monthly checklist of the closing routines checking the consistency of the amount requested by analyzing the variation and correlation of balances, as well as aligning internal controls with the areas to ensure accuracy.

FIXED ASSETS & INVENTORY MANAGEMENT: Ensure that the control of all the company's fixed assets is carried out and timely recorded and classificated guaranting the accuracy of the positions of Assets into the Balance Sheet, as well as the depreciation and amortization expenses in the Economical Result for the 3 views: TAX, Local GAAP and IFRS. Ensure the monthly update of the Fixed Asset Movement Map, ensuring a unique number between the SAP Modules FI, AA and PM. Provide support in the execution inventory activities according to Group guidelines overseeing the related accouting posting​.

TRANSACTIONAL ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT: Oversee end to end the invoce to cash process supporting sales and trade marketing department accordingly with group policies and enabling an effective customer contract administrative management as well as oversee end to end the purchase to payment process supporting procurement department accordingly with group policies and enabling an effective invoicing posting and payment execution.

CREDIT & TREASURY MANAGEMENT: Manage the local Credit Function within the given Group guidelines (Credit Management Group Policy), monitoring and reporting the Company commercial credit exposure​ performing creditworthiness evaluation for all new customers and developing and maintaining a system of credit/losses reporting and perform debt collection. Supervise various activities related to the management of cash, short term borrowing and investments​, Guarantee the correct application of civil-fiscal principles and norms regarding all treasury issues and ensure the preparation of short and long-term financial planning, as well as its periodic reviews, through specific tools for collecting and consolidating information. Coordinate the cash needs amongs the different functions of Commercial, Industrial, HR and TAX.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION​: Responsible to garanteee the realability of accounting information and to prepare reports (specific and occasional) containing information, explanations and/or interpretations of results and changes that occurred in the period, in order to support the decision-making process in the company:

• Produce managerial IFRS qand local GAAP reporting​
• Produce data for Controlling activities​
• Manage monthly intercompany reconciliations
• Provide required financial reporting timely​
• Ensure the reliability of Plant data management​
• Work with Group Departments in order to correctly deploy Group guidelines​
• Detect anomalies within financial information systems, communicate with involved Departments in order to determine causes, provide detailed corrections on financial data and (when possible) proposes durable improvements​
• Present to Plant Management reports on Plant financial status​
• Supervise insurance coverage​

RISK MANAGEMENT:

• External & Internal Audit: Attend and monitor the work of the external audit, providing all the necessary clarifications, aiming at the speed and quality of the audit work. Supervise the deployment of Internal Audit at local level, included in the Governance, Risk & Compliance program (GRC)​. Ensure compliance with legal constraints in order to safeguard Company assets and avoid dishonest behaviors
• Internal Controls system: Management of the implementation of internal controls to ensure the mitigation of the identified gaps during internal and external audits and/or inspections by regulatory bodies. Ensure the preparation and application of internal controls, through the application of company principles to ensure quality in internal and external audit processes

TEAM AND PEOPLE MANAGEMENT: accountable for setting up and improving along the time effetive teams and for managing people assigned, ensuring a management system based on Group values, motivation, diversity & inclusion, competence development and empowerment​, promoting the proper communication and cascading through the line managers to the teams. Guarantees people professional development, evaluating people and proposing development initiatives ​                                  

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Ensure quality in the analysis and feasibility studies of new projects, through estimated measurement of the result to support the company's strategic decisions accoordingly with group programs          

Education

• Graduate degree Accounting Sciences.

Experience

• Strong experience in Administrative and Financial Reporting in a Multinational Company Environment. Experience with a Big Four firm is a plus.

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of SAP ECC, SAP S/4.

Certifications

• CRC - Professional registration at the Regional Accounting Council required.

Languages

• English fluent, required.
• Portuguese and Spanish are valuables plus.