Requisition ID: 23769
- Job Category: Manufacturing
- Career level: Professional
- Contract type: Permanent
- Location: Puebla, MX
**Chief Accountant**
**Location**: Puebla, Mexico
**Department**: Finance
**Reports to**: Country Finance Manager / Cluster Controller
**Work Model**: Hybrid (on‑site + remote)
**About the Role**
We are looking for a **Chief Accountant** to lead end‑to‑end accounting for our Puebla operations, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and strong financial control in a global environment. This role oversees general accounting, statutory and tax compliance, month‑end close, internal controls (SOX), audits, and partners with business leaders to support decision‑making and continuous improvement.
**Key Responsibilities**
**Financial Accounting & Close**
- Own the **month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end close** (R2R) ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant financial statements under **IFRS** and **local GAAP (NIFs)**.
- Review and post **journal entries**, **accruals**, **provisions**, **prepayments**, **intercompany** and **eliminations**.
- Oversee **balance sheet integrity**: reconciliations, aging, open items, and corrective actions.
**Tax, Compliance & Statutory**
- Ensure on‑time and accurate **tax compliance** (ISR/IVA/IEPS, DIOT, retentions) and statutory filings; coordination with external advisors when needed.
- Guarantee **CFDI 4.0** timeliness/accuracy (AR/AP) and alignment with **SAT** requirements.
- Maintain robust **internal controls** and **SOX narratives/testing**, including risk assessments and remediation plans.
**Costing, Inventory & Fixed Assets**
- Oversee **cost accounting** and **inventory valuation** (standard cost updates, variances, cycle counts, and adjustments).
- Manage **fixed assets** lifecycle: capitalization, depreciation, disposals, CIP tracking.
**Cash, AR/AP & Intercompany**
- Manage **intercompany reconciliations, netting, transfer pricing documentation** (in coordination with Tax/Treasury).




**Audits & Governance**
- Lead **external and internal audits**, ensuring timely PBC lists, sampling support, and closure of audit findings.
- Maintain updated **accounting policies**, desktop procedures, and RACI.
**Business Partnering & Improvement**
- Provide **financial insight** to Plant/Operations/Procurement on margins, cost drivers, variances, and savings.
- Drive **process standardization and automation** (SAP/ERP, reporting, controls) and support **continuous improvement** initiatives.
**Qualifications**
- **Bachelor’s degree** in Accounting, Finance, or related field (CPA/Contador Público preferred).
- **7+ years** of progressive accounting experience; **3+ years** in a lead/supervisory role.
- Solid knowledge of **IFRS** and **Mexican GAAP (NIFs)**; strong **tax** know‑how in Mexico.
- Experience with **ERP (SAP preferred)**, advanced **Excel/Power BI** a plus.
- Proven track record in **month‑end close, audits, internal controls (SOX), cost accounting, and intercompany**.
- **English: Intermediate-Advanced** (global coordination and reporting).
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, problem‑solving, and deadline discipline.
**Key Success Metrics (KPIs)**
- Close completed **on time** with **zero material misstatements**.
- **Balance sheet reconciliations**: 100% on time; aging of open items within target.
- **Tax filings**: 100% timely and accurate; **audit findings** closed as planned.
- **Inventory & costing**: variance within thresholds; successful cycle count results.
- **DSO/AP on-time payment** support aligned to targets.
- **Control health**: SOX tests passed, remediations delivered on time.
**What We Offer**
- A high‑impact role within a **integral industrial leader**, collaborating with cross‑functional and international teams.
- **Hybrid work model**, learning & development, and exposure to **continuous improvement** and transformation initiatives.
- A culture of **integrity, accountability, and performance**.
**How to Apply

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