Senior Accountant, Corporate Accounting

About Ingredion

Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you’ve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet’s food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether you’re just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there's a place for you here to make a real difference.

Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create.

Location:

Westchester, IL

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

The Senior Accountant of Corporate Accounting will assist with legal entity management, M&A transaction support, and the transaction and accounting work streams for investments in (or divestitures of) joint ventures, intellectual property, intangible assets, and acquisitions, including integrating financial systems of newly acquired entities into SAP Central Finance (CFIN) and overseeing processes for intersegment transactions. In addition, this role will also assist with footnote preparation for financial reporting as well as cross‑train in other areas such as hedge, pensions, and leases.

This role will report to the Sr. Manager, Corporate Accounting, Global Investments and Integrations.

• Global Investment Accounting
  • Assist with accounting for corporate and global investments, intellectual property and intangible assets, partnerships, joint ventures, and acquisitions across global entities.
  • Assist with divestitures aligned with strategic growth initiatives.
  • Assist with consolidation and equity method accounting per U.S. GAAP.
  • Coordinate compliance with Ingredion Accounting Policies in accordance with U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting requirements.
  • Execute controls for accounting and financial reporting risks for investment activities.
  • Assist with purchase accounting, coordinate valuations of acquired assets and liabilities, and support pro‑forma financial reporting and SEC disclosure filings.
  • Assist with accounting for intercompany transactions and legal entities, including eliminations and foreign‑currency impacts, for new M&A.
  • Record ongoing income/loss financial results for investments, including equity method investments.
  • Test for potential impairment of investments and intangible assets and document impairment testing.
  • Support purchase accounting and post‑acquisition finance system alignment.
  • Resolve accounting differences between legacy systems and Ingredion’s SAP CFIN.
  • Draft technical memos and accounting position papers for material transactions and routine assessments.
  • Engage with external Big 4 auditors and segment controllers to ensure proper accounting and controls for investments and integrations, including establishing and updating opening balance sheets, evaluating adjustments, and modifying depreciation and amortization during integration.
• SAP CFIN Integration Leadership
  • Drive successful financial integration of acquired companies into a unified SAP CFIN "book of record" environment.
  • Onboard affiliates to CFIN.
  • Assist acquired companies with financial solutions to maintain effective internal controls for financial reporting and SOX compliance.
  • Map data, harmonize processes, and align chart of accounts across entities.
  • Serve as the accounting SME in SAP CFIN projects, collaborating with IT, FP&A, and Internal Audit.
  • Design and implement scalable processes to pull data from decentralized ERP instances, including SAP S/4
    
    HANA and SAP ECC, and optimize reporting performance.
• Month-End & Reporting
  • Record month-end close for integrated entities.
  • Ensure consolidated reporting is accurate and automated via CFIN functionality.
  • Partner with the corporate consolidation team on intercompany eliminations and financial analysis.
  • Set up, modify, or coordinate financial reporting interfaces with Workiva Wdesk, SAP Group Reporting, and SAC planning.
• Controls & Compliance
  • Implement internal control processes for new integrations aligned to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and corporate governance requirements.
  • Collaborate with external auditors during…