Gerente Senior, Contraloría

Work Location Type: Onsite 

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. We’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Primary Function:

As Senior Manager, Controllership, this role holds primary decision-making authority over the reliability, integrity, and compliance of all accounting and treasury activities for Grainger Mexico. The role is accountable for ensuring financial results are accurate, complete, compliant with company policy, local statutory requirements, and external Mexico audit standards, and are trusted by internal leadership, auditors, banks, and regulators. Acting as Controller and Treasurer, this position safeguards cash, enforces payment discipline, and ensures that critical accounting estimates, accruals, and judgments are appropriately determined and recorded, resulting in reliable insights used for business decision-making. This person is expected to develop and maintain effective working relationships with various business partners, both internal and external (GMEX, COE’s, Global Controllership, Corporate Treasury, Internal and External Auditors, and Banks.

Specialized Functions:

• Serve as GMEX financial authority with banks and selected suppliers: act as legal representative/signatory where applicable, execute bank documentation, and sign contracts within approved authorization limits to enable business operations and ensure compliance.

• Maintain and direct the GMEX financial close process; from coordination and communication through delivery of financial results to stakeholders, including information and evaluation on operating performance, strategic projects and current business trends.

• Partner with GMEX senior leadership of other groups within GMEX in reviewing complex business transactions and technical accounting issues to ensure compliance with Global Controllership policies and internal controls.

• Direct the GMEX Treasury function, including maintaining adequate cash flow, daily investing, and foreign exchange risk management

• Direct processes (e.g. minimum closing & internal control requirements) to ensure GMEX aligns and complies with Global Controllership policies. 

• Indirectly Manages all GMEX Cash activities performed by the Panama Shared Controllership Services Team, ensuring timeliness, accuracy, compliance and reasonableness while monitoring that service levels and expectations are met

• Drive the execution of GMEX control procedures through detailed reviews of operating results, significant and unusual transactions, accruals, close procedures and a variety of other transactions, as necessary. 

• Partner with GMEX and Corporate Finance Directors and his teams to analyze results as a basis for creating realistic projections & forecasts to ensure controllership developments are appropriately reflected in the forecasting/planning processes.

• Strengthen Controllership (accounting, process, controls) acumen of GMEX business partners and improve their accountability and ownership of financials, closing procedures and internal controls.

• Drive end to end process thinking and leverage analytics to improve processes, standard controls, and improve insights. 

• Lead and manage external audit requirements to ensure GMEX audits are complete and issues are resolved in the most effective/efficient manner to help guarantee issuance of timely and reliable Financial Statements. 

• Manage a high-performing and engaged team of accounting experts and finance professionals and undertake the full range of duties relevant to the leadership, management and development of the team to ensure their performance meets and or exceeds both the business and their own personal goals/objectives

• Maintain a positive, results-orientated work environment and build partnerships and teamwork, and communicate in an open, balanced and objective manner 

Education:

Level of education: Completed university education.

▪ Area of studies: Economic-administrative-commercial. ▪ University: Indistinct 

Work experience required:

▪ Experience of at least 7 years in:

- As a Controller in a multinational company, preferably in a commercial/industrial environment, with experience in the areas of accounting, tax and internal audit.

Technical skills:

Office package.

▪ English level: Advanced.

▪ High technical knowledge in US GAAP, Mexico GAAP, relationships with banks and investment regulations, Mexican taxes, compliance with American regulations and FCPA among others.

▪ Technical knowledge: knowledge, management of some financial consolidation system (SAP desirable) and executive presentations. 

At Grainger we promote Inclusion and Diversity. That is why we do not distinguish our candidates by gender, age (according to LFT), race, culture, marital status or sexual orientation or disability according to the required position. We look for the right talent.