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Job Purpose and Impact

The Accountant will build and maintain accounting policies and fiscal controls by using broad knowledge of accounting principles and practices. In this role, you will conduct complex accounting activities across a region, business or multisite group to build accurate financial documents, conduct analysis and manage and maintain risk following established compliance requirements and policies. You will prepare financial and risk reports and take appropriate actions to safeguard the organization's assets.

Key Accountabilities

• Apply accounting techniques and standard practices to classify and record financial transactions and prepare financial reports.
• Prepare and distribute accurate and timely position reports for commodity, foreign exchange, and/or counterparty risks to multiple partners, which could include trading, commercial, business leadership, Cargill Risk Committee and/or external regulators.
• Partner with the Controls and Process Improvement Accounting and Finance domains to craft and implement controlled processes.
• Assess and communicate information regarding business risks with functions across the organization.
• Estimate the potential financial consequences of an occurring loss.
• Identify and implement process simplification, standardization and automatization of financial and risk reporting to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Confirmed ability to identify and assess risk.

• Ability to communicate, influence and build trust with partners at multiple levels in the organization.

• Sophisticated financial analysis skills

• Minimum of four years of related work experience