Sustainability Controls Sr. Manager
About The Position
The Sustainability Controls Senior Manager establishes robust processes to ensure Mars’s sustainability accounting is properly executed, documented, and auditable. The role ensures reported metrics are rigorously substantiated by building or coaching others to build traceable audit trails, standardizing accounting processes, and coordinating external audits and verifications. The position aims to ensure that public disclosures are fully documented, comply with international and strategically aligned voluntary standards, and actively manage non-compliance risk. The role works closely with sustainability controllership, sustainability and functional experts at corporate and segment levels, and the central sustainability accounting team. It is based in Chicago or McLean, USA, on a hybrid basis, and reports to the Sustainability Governance Director.
Requirements
- Degree in Accounting, Management, Economics, or equivalent levels of hands-on experience.
- Significant progressive experience in accounting and auditing.
- Mastery of control frameworks, auditing procedures, and data substantiation requirements.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable business strategy.
- Experience advising and influencing senior leadership.
- Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and manage relationships with external partners, consultants, and regulatory bodies.
- Ability to distinguish relevant information from unimportant details and make sense of complex situations.
- Ability to analyze diverse sources of information and accurately define problems before identifying solutions.
- Comfort with uncertainty and change.
- Readiness to act on challenges without unnecessary planning.
Nice To Haves
- Sustainability experience.
- Previous experience implementing controls.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement internal control systems and substantiation requirements.
- Identify gaps in data collection and reporting systems by reviewing the Sustainability Controls Implementation (SCI) framework and partnering with sustainability controllership.
- Apply control and risk-assessment expertise to determine whether to execute controls directly or coach team members in performing them.
- Substantiate reported metrics by reviewing data, validating source documents such as utility invoices, emission factors, and supply-chain records, and ensuring verified evidence is retained.
- Coach associates on SCI controls and improvements to activity data in partnership with controllership, sustainability, and functional experts.
- Support the central sustainability accounting team in implementing process and documentation improvements.
- Co-own preparation, readiness, and coordination of external verification with sustainability controllership to secure clean, unqualified assurance opinions.
- Perform pre-audit gap analyses, resolve potential issues before fieldwork, and advocate for the validity of Mars’s accounting treatments and estimation methodologies during audit work.
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including a company bonus.
- Medical and dental benefits.
- Participation in a 401k plan.
- Paid time off benefits.
- Learning and development support from day one, including access to Mars University.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
