LM719: MD Accounting & Controls

Description

Direct a team of managers and professionals that plan, organize, direct, and control the Accounting and Controllership, functions for the Company’s operations in Latin America & Caribbean Division. Ensures that the internal control structure related to accounting and financial statement balances are fairly reported.

Direct a team of managers and professionals that plan, organize, direct, and control the Accounting and Controllership, functions for the Company’s operations in Latin America & Caribbean Division. Ensures that the internal control structure related to accounting and financial statement balances are fairly reported.

Essential Functions

1. Lead a team of professionals and managers including selection, education, development, motivation, providing strategic direction.

2. Ensure that all financial data used or released by the corporation, as it relates to the Latin Americas & Caribbean Division is accurate and timely.

3. Conducts monthly closing meetings with Accounting and Financial managers to ensure accuracy and complete understanding of monthly results. Participates in monthly closing meetings with the regional leadership and Corporate Controller’s team to review results and provide explanations on results as well as any anomalies.

4. Oversees statutory audit and regulatory reporting functions to ensure timely completion of audits and regulatory report findings as well as compliance with local standards.

5. Participates and/or leads project teams with the goal to improve internal processes, including collaboration with the Enterprise Business Solutions and Data and Technology teams on automation and system solutions.

6. Maintains compliance with SEC reporting requirements, US GAAP, Local Country GAAP, and IFRS and Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 (SOX) requirements.

7. Develop and maintain systems and processes that improve the internal controls of the corporation and provide periodic internal control certifications.

8. Utilize data to pro-actively and objectively monitor and address internal related control concerns and opportunities.

9. Establish and maintain a “culture of exceptional compliance” through on-going education, effective relationship building and collaboration with leadership and functional compliance champions.

10. Perform other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

1. Ability to effectively persuade, influence and gain consensus with all levels of leadership.

2. Motivational and innovative leader with proven ability to challenge status quo.

3. Excellent organizational, time management, analytical and project management skills.

4. Outstanding written and verbal communicator; present information in a simple and concise manner.

5. Confident and effective decision making and problem resolution skills.

6. Proven collaborator and effective negotiator.

7. Ability to identify and utilize appropriate technology.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Accounting.

• Masters degree preferred but not required.

• CPA or foreign certificate preferred.

• Significant related experience in accounting and/or auditing, and contract system.

• Knowledge of data processing systems, accounting terms, and processes & procedures.

• Exposure to foreign statutory accounting and regulatory reporting requirements.

• Strong management, human relations and communication skills.

• Excellent planning, organizational, and analytical skills.

• Verbal and written fluency in both English and Spanish is preferred.

• High performance and leadership ratings.

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience at Manager or higher level.

FedEx is widely acknowledged as a world-class company. We are honored and proud to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, a technology innovator and one of the world’s most admired and respected companies.

FedEx is consistently named among the World’s most valuable and admired brands. Some of our recent awards include:

• 2020 Fortune’s World Most Admired Companies (14th)
• 2019 Fortune’s Best Places to Work (15th)
• 2019 Forbes’s One of the “Best Employers for Diversity”
• 2020 FedEx LAC included in the GPTW’s Best Workplaces in Latin America Ranking (24th)
• 2021 FedEx Mexico was included in the GPTW Ranking for 18th consecutive years
• 2020 FedEx Mexico received the CEMEFI Certification for 13th consecutive years endorsing FedEx as a company socially responsible
• 2021 FedEx Chile was re-certified with Giro Limpio, a seal from the Agency of Sustainable Energy that seeks to improve the energy efficiency of the ground transportation sector, by reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
• 2019 FedEx Uruguay selected by GPTW among the 5 best companies to work for.