Finance Manager

At Corbion, we exist to champion preservation in all its forms, preserving food and food production, health, and our planet.

The Finance Manager will be handling challenging and high-volume accounting. In this role, you will complete general ledger activities, make accruals or adjustments, identify sources of discrepancies and seek resolution. The ideal candidate is detail oriented, understands, and maintains the required strict confidentiality of proprietary financial information, and can prioritize their workload throughout the month to ensure deadlines are met. This is a hybrid role based at our office in Lenexa, KS.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for timely and accurately closing the monthly financial books, including completion of general ledger transactions, researching variances to ensure there are no omissions or errors in the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, and implementing best practices.
• Develop a solid understanding of the transaction flows within SAP, including revenue recognition, COGS, COGS variances, and inventory, to ensure accurate financial results.
• Completion of manual journal entries in accordance with IFRS and Corbion internal controls and ensuring proper support is included in source documents.
• Review and post journal entries from Plant Operations accounting team appropriately
• Complete, review and analyze all Balance Sheet accounts, ensuring they are reconciled monthly.  Ensure variances are researched and resolved timely.
• Collaborate with other departments (Operations, Sales, Customer Service, etc.) to understand the business and ensure there are no surprises during close. Pre-plan with other departments regularly for month-end close.
• Actively participate in the completion of both the internal and external audits.
• Responsible for the intercompany reconciliation process, including netting
• Responsible for adherence to the internal control system in accordance with Corbion's internal control requirements and the Finance manual
• Oversee and manage the Credit/Collections team
• Team leadership, including managing and mentoring a team of two direct reports in the Finance department.  Effective communication of departmental goals, objectives and expectations, and delegation to staff.
• Implement process improvements and automation where possible to improve manual processes
• Answer inquiries from internal and external customers in timely and professional manner
• Operate responsibly and comply with company policies at all times.

Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting required. CPA is preferred.
• Minimum of 5+ years of accounting experience with a solid understanding of general ledger practices and GAAP/IFRS compliance
• SAP experience is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficiency with spreadsheet and word-processing software and various accounting systems/databases

• Proven analytical, organizational and time management skills; ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Detail oriented, with ability to analyze and research account variances.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of two direct reports in the Credit/Collections department.

About Corbion

Corbion is a sustainable ingredients company dedicated to preserving what matters, including food and food production, health, and the planet. We specialize in lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives, food preservation solutions, functional blends, and algae ingredients, using our deep application and product knowledge to propel nature’s ingenuity through science. With more than a century of experience, we continue working side-by-side with our customers to make our cutting-edge technologies work for them. Leveraging our advanced capabilities in fermentation and preservation technology, we help customers differentiate their products in diverse markets ranging from food and animal nutrition to home & personal care, pharmaceuticals, electronics, medical devices, and bioplastics. In 2024, Corbion generated annual sales of € 1,332.0 million with a workforce of 2,399 FTEs. Corbion is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. For more information:  www.corbion.com

Corbion is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workplace.  All applicants will be considered equally without regard to race, color, ethnicity, veteran status, religion, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, age, sex, sexual orientation, handicapping condition, membership in an organization or any other non-merit factors.

Corbion provides reasonable accommodation to applicants.

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Corbion does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. All candidates must be submitted by approved Corbion vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Talent Acquisition team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Corbion Talent Acquisition team and such candidate was submitted to the Corbion Talent Acquisition Team.