Corporate Controlling and Accounting Manager

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The Controlling and Accounting Manager role is part of the Corporate Controlling Team and is responsible to effectively manage several corporate cost centers, ensuring that cost control and all accounting aspects are accurate. This role will work closely with key corporate functions to provide strategic financial support, perform cost analyses, and facilitate financial planning and forecasting.

This role is instrumental in managing budget adherence and cost efficiency across corporate departments, offering insights and recommendations that align with Amcor’s corporate financial goals. The role requires partnering with functional and divisional leaders, including SMT member, as well as close collaboration with shared services resources (GL accounting, payroll, accounts payable, treasury, cash and banking) and other corporate finance functions (Global Treasury, Tax, Corporate Planning & Analysis, External Reporting teams).

The role reports to the Senior Manager, Corporate Finance and is part of the wider Management Reporting (Group Controlling Planning & Analysis) organization. Primary focus will be cost controlling and decision making support for functional leaders, planning and analysis activities combined with management reporting while ensuring that US GAAP accounting requirements are fully met.

The role will be based in Evansville (IN) or Oshkosh (WI) and is a full time permanent position.

• Proactively manage functional cost performance by monitoring spend against budget and forecast, identifying risks and opportunities early, and driving corrective actions to achieve financial targets.
• Monthly forecast preparation ensuring accuracy and timeliness
• Develop a deep understanding of the underlying cost base, including vendor spend, cost categories, and project expenditures, to provide value-added analysis beyond actuals reporting.
• Identify OPPs by challenging spending patterns, partnering with Procurement and functional/ divisional leaders, and tracking the realization of cost-saving opportunities.
• Manage collaboration and finance business partnering with Corporate functions and act as primary point of contact
• Coordinate the planning/OP cycle to make sure all inputs are collected and analyzed timely and submission deadlines are met.
• Support in developing and maintaining reports and templates for the budget, forecast, data loads, MRPs/ MMRs, ensuring data integrity and accuracy
• Lead project-related financial analysis and manage project budgeting and forecasting (e.g. CAPEX).

• Support monthly and quarterly closings and management reporting of significant US management entities, reviewing and validating EBIT and cash flow
• Manage Corporate Cost submission and reporting for legacy Berry US entities and support the overall Global corporate results consolidation
• Lead cash flow forecast preparation and…