Senior Manager, North America Controllership Integration
Mars (External) Open · verified Oct 22, 2026 At a glance
Senior Accounting role at Mars (External). USA-Illinois-Chicago · full-time · $169,840–$233,530 base.
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What you'll do
- Coordinate North America finance integration work across processes, reporting, systems and controls, including CFIN deployment
- Help speed up regional close, shift the financial calendar to thirteen periods and align accounting policies
- Set up brand financial reporting, implement the FY26 restatement and support Anaplan planning and forecasting
- Carry out regional purchase accounting and intercompany work, including fair-value adjustments and cross-charging
- Move controllership tasks from legacy tools such as BPC into future platforms while protecting reporting and controls
What you bring
- A bachelor's degree in accounting or finance and more than ten years in accounting or financial audit
- Experience in the consumer products industry and a track record leading teams
- Technical accounting and finance-process expertise, with experience presenting to senior finance leaders
Who this fits
This senior, project-based role suits an experienced accounting or audit professional with consumer products experience, team leadership skills and confidence presenting to senior finance leaders. The current assignment is expected to run through Q2 2028; Mars plans to explore other internal roles near that point, but employment will end if no suitable alternative is available.
From the employer
Job Description:
The Senior Manager, North America Controllership Integration supports the delivery of Finance Integration and other critical Controllership initiatives within the North America region by driving key integration and finance transformation projects. This role is a crucial partner to Finance, Digital Technologies, and Transformation teams (global and within regions), focusing on implementing future-state processes, systems, and controls.
This role is a project-based role and has a current expected end date in Q2 2028. As we move closer to Q2 2028, we will work with you to explore other opportunities for employment within the Mars family of companies. If a suitable alternative role is not available at that time, your employment will end.
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required, Master's degree preferred
- CPA or other professional certification preferred
- 10+ years of accounting or financial audit experience required
- Consumer Product Goods industry experience required
- SAP Experience or Equivalent ERP system preferred
- Experience leading teams
- Expertise in technical accounting and financial processes
- Scale and complexity in CPG industry
- Proficiency and experience presenting to senior finance leaders
What will be your key responsibilities?
Drive the regional implementation of one set of financials initiatives, including:
- Kellanova One Source of Truth (OSoT) Implementation Support: Support the end-to-end deployment of CFIN across the North America region, ensuring financial processes, reporting structures, and controls are aligned for a successful go-live.
- 3-Day Close Acceleration: Support the acceleration of the regional close process.
- 13-Period Conversion: Help convert Kellanova’s financial calendar to align with Mars' 13-period structure.
- Accounting Policy Harmonization: Implement accounting policy harmonization based on differences identified between Mars and Kellanova accounting policies.
- Accelerator Brand Financials: Partner with business stakeholders to define the approach for enabling brand financials reporting and standup capabilities.
- FY26 Restatement: Help implement the restatement of Kellanova’s FY26 based on Globa’s instructions.
- Snacking Anaplan: Support the implementation of Anaplan for joint planning and forecasting.
Lead the execution of other key regional integration controllership projects, such as:
- Purchase Accounting: Support the pushdown of Day-1 fair value and PPA adjustments.
- Intercompany: Drive the alignment of Mars and Kellanova intercompany processes within the region by acting as a key member of the Intercompany working group. You will be responsible for evaluating new requests, assessing their cost and resource impacts, and ensuring they support accurate cross-charging and eliminations.
- System Transition & Legacy Tool Migration: Manage the migration of controllership activities from legacy tools (including BPC) into future-state platforms, ensuring continuity of reporting and controls.
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is between the range listed below, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position will include variable pay, medical and dental benefits, participation in 401k plan, and paid time off benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an applicant receives an offer of employment.
The pay range shown is applicable to all US locations listed within the job posting:USD 169,840.00 - USD 233,530.00