Job Description

Job Title: Job Title: Senior Manager, Reporting COE (GBS – ATR) (B12)

Location: Gujarat, India

Reports to: ATR Tower Lead

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced **Senior Manager, Reporting Center of Excellence (COE)**to join our Global Business Services (GBS)**Accounting to Reporting (ATR)**organization in Gujarat. This role will lead key components of the global financial close and reporting agenda, including financial close execution support,post-close schedules,monthly/quarterly reporting, and variance analytics, while serving as a systems and consolidation expert with strong working knowledge of **HFM (Hyperion Financial Management)**and upstream feeds from multiple ERPs (including BPCS, JDE, and SAP S/4HANA Central Finance, among others).

The ideal candidate combines deep controllership and reporting expertise with strong leadership and stakeholder management, and a continuous improvement mindset to drive standardization, automation, and higher-quality insights.

Working Hours:

Candidate will be serving 3 Markets: Australia, Europe and North America

Key Responsibilities

Reporting COE Leadership & Governance

• Lead and mentor a team of reporting and close professionals within the ATR Reporting COE.
• Define and drive global standards for reporting deliverables, calendars, templates, and quality controls.
• Establish governance, SLAs, and performance metrics for recurring reporting and post-close activities.
• Ensure documentation and knowledge management for processes, systems, and reporting packs.

Financial Close & Post-Close Schedule

• Own coordination and execution support for month-end and quarter-end reporting cycles, ensuring timely, complete, and accurate deliverables.
• Lead preparation/review of post-close schedules and supporting documentation (e.g., flux/variance decks, roll forwards, key reconciliations support, management schedules).
• Drive adherence to close calendars, dependency tracking, and issue resolution across entities/regions.
• Partner with controllership teams to validate results, follow up on open items, and ensure completeness of reporting narratives.

Monthly & Quarterly Reporting (Management and Statutory Support)

• Oversee production and review of standard monthly and quarterly reporting packages.
• Ensure consistency across entities and alignment to corporate reporting requirements and definitions.
• Coordinate inputs across ATR teams and upstream record-to-report processes to support accurate reporting outputs.
• Provide support for internal and external audit requests related to reporting deliverables and post-close schedules.

4) Variance Analysis & Business Insights

• Lead variance analysis (P&L, balance sheet, cash drivers where applicable) and root-cause identification.
• Drive standard analytics, commentary quality, and actionable insights for controllership and senior stakeholders.
• Develop dashboards and analytical views to improve transparency and speed of decision support.

5) Systems Expertise (HFM + ERP Feeds)

• Serve as a subject matter expert for HFM, including understanding of data flows, hierarchies, mappings, validations, and consolidation/reporting outputs.
• Own coordination with upstream ERP teams to ensure accurate and timely feeds into HFM (including but not limited to BPCS, JDE, SAP S/4HANA Central Finance).
• Partner with IT/Finance transformation teams on change management: enhancements, defect resolution, UAT, cutover planning, and controls for reporting systems.
• Drive automation and standardization (e.g., HFM rules/process improvements, reporting tools, workflow solutions such as Blackline where applicable).

6) Controls, Compliance & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure reporting processes comply with internal control requirements and applicable accounting standards (US GAAP).
• Implement controls for data integrity, completeness, and audit trails across close-to-reporting activities.
• Identify and execute process improvements to reduce cycle time, reduce manual effort, and improve reporting accuracy.

7) Stakeholder Management

• Act as a key partner to global/regional controllership teams and finance leadership for reporting cadence, priorities, and issue resolution.
• Communicate status, risks, and dependencies clearly across global stakeholders, including escalation management when required.

Qualifications

Education / Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (required).
• CA/CPA or equivalent (required).

Experience

• 12–15 years of progressive experience in financial close, reporting, and controllership-related roles.
• Demonstrated experience in a GBS/GCC/shared services environment with global stakeholders.
• Strong experience with consolidation/reporting tools, ideally HFM, and multi-ERP environments (BPCS/JDE/SAP S/4HANA Central Finance exposure strongly preferred).
• FMCG experience is desirable.

Skills / Competencies

• Strong understanding of end-to-end close and reporting cycles and post-close schedules.
• Solid knowledge of US GAAP and financial statement analytics.
• Advanced variance analysis and story lining skills for executive-ready reporting.
• Strong systems aptitude: data mapping, interfaces, reconciliations between ERPs and consolidation tools.
• Proven people leadership, coaching, and performance management capability.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and ability to manage multiple deadlines across time zones.

What we offer

• Opportunity to shape and lead a critical Reporting COE capability within a global GBS ATR organization.
• Join a dynamic, inclusive work culture that encourages innovation and professional growth;
• An ambitious employer: we only want the best for you;
• A fast career track like only few other companies can match;
• A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market);
• A fast-paced environment where each of your ideas count and be a key player in supporting the technological infrastructure that drives our success;

Location(s)

• Ahmedabad
• Venus Stratum GCC

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.