Supervisor of Accounting

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Northbrook, IL
In-Office
95K-125K Annually
Senior level
Energy
The Role
The Supervisor of Accounting oversees monthly payroll, account reconciliations, and journal entries while supervising a team. Responsibilities include training staff, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and improving processes for efficiency.
Summary Generated by Built In
At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge and diverse talents together to deliver important work and you’ll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas.  You’ll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions.  Our eight manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy.

Function:

Finance & AccountingJob Summary:

The incumbent will supervise, review, and coordinate the preparation of monthly payroll & payroll added cost entries, SG&A accruals, Fixed asset transactions, account and bank account reconciliations and related management reports. Trains, develops and appraises staff of 2 in order to maintain a high level of work efficiency, competency and flexibility.

Job Description:

Matrix Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership, guidance, coaching, and process oversight for corporate accounting 
  • Provides direction to individuals regarding their role and responsibilities to help meet the overall Company objectives, along with the role the department has in fulfilling corporate goals
  • Empower and promotes the proper level of responsibility and authority for others to learn, grow into new responsibilities and make the proper decisions to obtain the overall department objectives
  • Demonstrates the highest level of integrity and trust in all aspects of the job by working continually towards self-development, staying abreast of all current information and technology, and be knowledgeable with FASB & AICPA governing bodies affecting functional areas to increase innovation and ensure compliance
  • Promotes the corporate controller’s group by developing strong relationships between department members and other CF departments through a high degree of communication across management
  • Promotes the matrix organizational structure with direct reports and encourages cross involvement between people and groups

General Accounting

  • Responsible for coordinating and reviewing journal entries and account analysis; along with coordinating maintenance and control procedures for the general ledger system
  • Coordinates and reviews analyses and exhibits for the financial statement commentary package
  • Coordinates and reviews preparation and issuance of various reports to management

Other Responsibilities

  • Coordinates and reviews special projects, providing assistance where necessary
  • Coordinates year-end audit closing schedules and monitors progress
  • Initiates, researches and documents improvements to current methods and procedures
  • Promotes greater analyses skills across the finance team
  • Initiates, researches and documents improvements to current methods and procedures
  • Performs or directs the performance of special projects as assigned
  • ·With approval, investigates and implements process changes to promote internal controls to efficiently process department transactions and other responsibilities
Staff Supervision and Development
  • Plans, coordinates and reviews work assignments
  • Identifies training needs and provides resources to meet these needs

Internal Controls

Establishes and implements processes and procedures to meet departmental internal controls requirements.  Ensures that established processes/procedures are followed as designed.  Works with Internal Controls Department to identify deficiencies in existing processes/procedures, the need for new ones, and the extent to which such processes/procedures are being followed.  Develops and implements corrective actions with regard to department internal controls as necessary.

Successful incumbents will have:

  • Bachelor’s Degree with a major in Accounting or equivalent
  • CPA and/or master’s degree preferred
  • Minimum 5 to 8 years of accounting experience
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and administrative skills
  • PC literate within a Windows environment with excellent knowledge of Microsoft applications; knowledge of SAP preferred

Position Scope/Contribution:

The General Accounting Department is responsible for the preparation and issuance of CF Industries’ consolidated financial statements and handling financial inquiries from other individuals/departments.  Extensive contact exists with various Corporate and plant personnel.  The incumbent is responsible for ensuring that General Accounting performs these functions with accuracy and efficiency.

Estimated base pay for the position is typically between: $94,700 - $124,900​.

The actual base pay for the position may be influenced by factors such as education, training, skills, qualifications, competencies, years of experience, job-related knowledge, and scope of the role, and could be outside of the posted pay range. ​

In addition to base pay, an incentive program is available to all full-time employees, and a comprehensive benefits package including two medical plan options, a health savings plan with a company contribution and a match, dental and vision benefits, a well-being incentive program, 401(k) Plan which provides a potential of receiving between 10% and 13% of employer’s contribution, life and disability insurance, paid time off programs and much more! Additionally, we offer several Flexible Work Arrangements to support a healthy work-life balance. ​

For more detailed information on the CF programs, please visit our Total Rewards website at: https://cftotalrewards.com/.

FMLA:

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/fmlaen.pdf

 

Employee Polygraph Protection Act

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/eppac.pdf

 

  • Employees in Canada can learn more about their rights by viewing the “Canadian Human Rights Act”.

 

If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity at CF Industries, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please call 847-405-2400 or contact us at [email protected].

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The Company
HQ: Deerfield, IL
2,245 Employees
Year Founded: 1946

What We Do

At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably.

The company is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. We operate manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, which are among the most cost-advantaged, efficient, and flexible in the world and an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America.

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