Accounting Manager - Brazil Job at The Hershey Company (São Paulo)

Job Description

The Accounting Manager - Brazil is a strategic controllership leader responsible for end-to-end legal entity ownership for Hershey's Brazil operations, based in São Paulo. This role ensures accurate financial reporting, statutory compliance, and strong internal control execution across the Brazil legal entity, while supporting business growth and operational complexity in one of Hershey's most strategically important emerging markets. In addition to core controllership responsibilities, this position plays a critical role in Brazil indirect tax credit management, including VAT (ICMS, IPI, PIS/COFINS) credit governance, planning, and monetization support, in close partnership with Finance leadership, Tax, Treasury, HBP, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams. This role will be an essential member of the Chief Accounting Officer & Controllership team and serve as the primary liaison with External Auditors for Brazil and is a key finance partner to local leadership, manufacturing, and go to market teams.

Job Responsibility

Serve as primary accounting owner for the Brazil legal entity, ensuring accuracy and completeness of statutory and U.S. GAAP financial statements
Oversee month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close for Brazil, including intercompany, VAT credits, loans and other treasury items, derivatives, leases, other provisions, bank covenants, and partner with the Supply Chain and Commercial Accounting Platforms
Ensure compliance with Brazil local GAAP and statutory reporting requirements, aligned with Hershey global accounting policies
Actively partner with local leadership to explain financial results, key judgments, and balance sheet trends
Serve as the primary Brazil point of contact for external auditors, coordinating statutory audits, SOX/internal control testing, and regulatory reviews
Prepare and review Hershey Brazil's financial statements
Manage audit planning, PBC coordination, issue resolution, and remediation activities
Maintain strong relationships with external auditors
Support responses to regulatory, statutory, and government inquiries
Act as control owner for key Brazil entity level and process level controls
Ensure effective internal controls over financial reporting
Lead remediation of control gaps
Promote strong internal control culture and financial discipline across Brazil operations
Partner closely with Tax, Commercial, Supply Chain, FP&A, HBP, and IT teams to support accounting and reporting for complex Brazil operations
Play an active role in Brazil VAT (ICMS, IPI, PIS/COFINS) credit governance
Support documentation, reconciliation, and audit defensibility of VAT credits
Collaborate with Tax on planning, utilization, and monetization strategies
Ensure accounting alignment for VAT credit utilization and recovery
Complete quarterly tax reporting packages for Corporate
Collaborate with Corporate treasury on agreements & execution of intercompany loans, dividend flow, investments, intangible assets
Act as a finance business partner on new business initiatives, operating model and supply chain changes, and commercial strategies
Support system operations and transformation initiatives leveraging Microsoft Dynamics and SAP S/4 HANA
Contribute to process harmonization, automation, and data quality improvements
Support legal entity changes, restructuring, and integration initiatives impacting Brazil

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
CRC, CPA, or equivalent preferred
4-8 years of progressive accounting experience, including Brazil statutory and multinational environments (Big 4 or multinational preferred)
Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and Brazil accounting & statutory requirements
Understanding of legal entity structures, cross-border transactions and intercompany eliminations
Demonstrated experience with Brazil indirect taxes, particularly ICMS, IPI, PIS/COFINS credits
Experience supporting VAT credit recovery, offset, or monetization initiatives in partnership with Tax
Proven ability to lead external audits and statutory audits in Brazil
Strong business partnership skills with Commercial and Supply Chain organizations
Strong project management skills, with ability to manage multiple priorities with competing deadlines
Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to engage and influence stakeholders without direct authority as a collaborative business partner
Strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills, with high regard to attention to detail, accuracy, and integrity
Fluent in English and Portuguese (required)
Influential communication and presentation skills, with ability to convey complex information to diverse audiences at varying levels of the organization
Eagerness to learn and innovate processes to drive efficiencies in a rapidly evolving statutory landscape
Experience with Microsoft Dynamics, SAP S/4 HANA required
Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Aspiration to growth within the company

Nice to have

fluent in Spanish (preferred)
Exposure to Group Reporting, BlackLine and Workiva software/tools preferred

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