Senior Manager Finance (Controlling)

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Job Title: Senior Manager Finance (Controlling)
Location: Mumbai, International/Other

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

India Nutrition Controlling Manager serves as the finance controllership leader for the India Nutrition business (both Human Nutrition & Animal Nutrition). The role is responsible for safeguarding the integrity of financial reporting, ensuring compliance with US GAAP, Local GAAP and ADM accounting policies, maintaining a strong internal control environment, and providing independent financial stewardship to support sustainable business growth. The position partners closely with Business, Operations, Supply Chain and BU Finance teams and Corporate Finance teams to provide financial governance, risk management, operational excellence, and strategic decision support while ensuring the highest standards of financial compliance and controllership.

Your Responsibilities

1. Financial Controllership & Financial Statement Governance

• Lead month-end, quarter-end and year-end financial close activities for the India Nutrition business.

• Ensure complete, accurate and timely financial reporting under US GAAP, Local GAAP and ADM accounting policies.

• Review financial statements, journal entries, accounting estimates and significant transactions.

• Assess accounting implications of new business activities and recommend appropriate accounting treatments.

• Ensure compliance with corporate accounting policies, reporting requirements and financial governance standards.

• Review monthly financial results and proactively identify financial risks, unusual transactions and reporting issues.

• Review financial performance against prior year and analyze key financial drivers and provide recommendations for performance improvement.

2. Balance Sheet Governance

• Own the governance framework for the Balance Sheet.

• Lead monthly Balance Sheet Review meetings.

• Review reconciliation quality, aging balances and outstanding reconciling items.

• Drive timely resolution of balance sheet issues.

• Ensure compliance with Blackline reconciliation policies and corporate governance requirements.

• Strengthen balance sheet controls through continuous monitoring and root cause analysis.

3. Cost Accounting & Inventory Controllership

• Lead SAP product costing and standard cost governance.

• Ensure inventory valuation complies with US GAAP, Local GAAP and ADM accounting policies.

• Review inventory provisions including LOCOM/NRV assessments.

• Monitor manufacturing variances, inventory accuracy and costing controls.

• Partner with Operations to strengthen manufacturing finance processes and inventory governance.

• Ensure costing methodologies remain appropriate and consistently applied.

4. Internal Controls, Compliance & Risk Management

• Maintain an effective internal control environment across the India Nutrition business.

• Ensure compliance with SOX, US GAAP, Local GAAP and corporate accounting policies.

• Coordinate internal and external audits.

• Drive timely remediation of audit findings.

• Evaluate financial and operational risks and recommend mitigation actions.

• Review financial governance for new business initiatives, commercial agreements and process changes.

5. Business Partnership & Decision Support

• Partner with Business Leadership, Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain and Procurement teams.

• Provide financial insights to support strategic and operational decision-making.

• Challenge business assumptions through financial analysis and risk assessment.

• Support pricing, profitability, capital investment and working capital initiatives.

• Act as the trusted finance advisor for the India Nutrition leadership team.

6. Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Drive operational excellence initiatives across the Controllership function.

• Standardize and simplify finance processes.

• Improve month-end close efficiency and reporting quality.

• Lead automation and digital finance initiatives.

• Improve SAP, Blackline and reporting processes.

7. Leadership & Stakeholder Support

• Promote best practices across the APAC Controller organization.

• Serve as the primary finance controllership leader for the India Nutrition business.

• Build strong relationships with Business, Operations, Corporate and BU Finance teams

• Influence cross-functional stakeholders to strengthen financial governance.

• Support finance capability development, knowledge sharing and succession planning.

• Lead or participate in regional finance transformation initiatives.

8. Special Projects & Other Responsibilities

• Lead or support strategic finance and business transformation initiatives.

• Support business case evaluations and investment decisions where required.

• Participate in regional and global finance projects.

• Support mergers, acquisitions, integrations or restructuring activities as required.

• Perform other responsibilities and special assignments as delegated by the APAC Controller.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree or above in Accounting, Finance, or related field

• CPA / ACCA or equivalent professional qualification

• Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in Controlling / Accounting

• Strong manufacturing finance and cost accounting experience.

• Experience supporting multinational organizations.

• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and Local GAAP.

• Experience leading month-end close and financial reporting, Balance Sheet Reconciliation review

• Experience managing audits and SOX compliance.

• Experience partnering with business leadership.

• Experience in SAP, HFM ERP environment.

• Strong understanding of US GAAP and local statutory requirements

• Solid knowledge of balance sheet management and reconciliation processes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Cost Accounting

Technical Skills

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills

• Knowledge of SAP, HFM, Blackline, Workiva, Power BI

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Job Post Date: 10/17/26