Job Description:
Intercompany Lead (f/m/x)
in Mars Global Services (MGS)
Financial Operations - General Accounting
Location: Warsaw (Poland) or Queretaro (Mexico)
Hybrid working
We are looking for an Intercompany Lead to take ownership of end-to-end Intercompany operations within MGS Finance. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the timely and accurate delivery of Intercompany accounting activities, supporting financial close processes, and maintaining the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting.
As a key partner to Operational Excellence Controllers, Tax and Statutory teams, and external service providers, you will drive operational excellence, monitor performance through KPIs, and ensure compliance with global policies and accounting standards. This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional who enjoys combining operational leadership, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement in a global environment.
What will be your key responsibilities?
Operations
- Develop and maintain a strong understanding of end-to-end financial operations across Intercompany processes.
- Provide guidance on transactional accounting and reporting activities related to Intercompany processes, acting as the first level of escalation within MGS Finance.
- Ensure service delivery excellence for Intercompany Accounting activities, including monitoring performance and driving continuous improvement of key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Lead projects and analyses focused on automation, standardization, and efficiency improvements across Intercompany processes.
- Ensure compliance with global policies, accounting standards, and internal control requirements while maintaining the integrity and accuracy of financial statements.
- Oversee Intercompany operational processes performed by external service providers and ensure timely and high-quality delivery.
Business Partnering
- Partner with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely financial results across the business units supported.
- Drive the standardization agenda by sharing best practices and supporting the implementation of global processes.
- Collaborate closely with Controllership, Tax, FP&A, Business Partners, and MGS Finance Tower Leads.
- Act as a trusted business partner to Operational Excellence (OE) Controllers, providing ownership of financial results, KPIs, and operational performance.
- Support improvements in the quality of financial accounts by providing insights and analysis across financial statements.
Efficiency & Effectiveness
- Own and drive initiatives to maintain a clean and effective Chart of Accounts.
- Support and partner with Functional and Operational Excellence teams to advance standardization and process efficiency initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to enhance operational effectiveness, strengthen controls, and improve overall process performance.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to simplify processes and increase scalability within the Intercompany Accounting area.
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- 2-3 years of experience in in accounting/finance operations/Intercompany Accounting,
- Flexibility to collaborate in a global team across different time zones and adjust working hours when business needs require.
- Fluent knowledge of English is a must.
What can you expect from Mars?
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
- 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
Apply now and upload you profile in English.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 2-3 years of experience in accounting, finance operations, or Intercompany Accounting
- Fluent English
- Flexibility to collaborate across time zones and adjust working hours when required
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
