Advisor, Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures and Joint Ventures Expert

Company Overview

Cargill's size and scale allow us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. As a family company, we provide food, ingredients, agricultural solutions, and industrial products that are vital for living.

We connect farmers with markets to help them prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can create meals people love. Additionally, we connect families with daily essentials, from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, and feed to alternative fuel. With 160,000 colleagues operating in 70 countries, we make essential products that touch billions of lives each day.

Join us in reaching your higher purpose at Cargill.

Role Overview

The role provides finance leadership in executing the organization's due diligence and integration strategy for relevant merger, acquisition, divestiture, and joint venture projects. Serving as a recognized subject matter expert, it involves leading and mentoring teams to coordinate and implement accounting and finance activities for pre and post-close transitions.

Key Responsibilities

• Policy Maintenance & Improvement: Lead and advise on the development, maintenance, and improvement of due diligence and integration playbooks and checklists, ensuring effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency while mitigating risks.
• Playbook Execution: Mentor in coordinating and implementing financial due diligence and integration playbooks across all finance functions, reporting risks and issues promptly to relevant offices.
• Due Diligence: Cultivate partnerships with third-party providers and implement diligence activities, validating agreements according to established finance standards.
• Integration & Separation: Collaborate with finance planning, operations, accounting, treasury, and tax teams to develop integration and separation plans, leading third-party valuation support.
• Accounting Support: Coordinate the setup of corporate and local financial organization hierarchies, ensuring accurate purchase price accounting or sales balance sheet models.
• Result Reporting: Lead the integration of results into financial and management reporting processes across departments.
• Drives Inclusivity: Influence and model inclusive culture, addressing issues timely with appropriate partners.
• Pipeline Reporting: Provide updates to finance leaders on the deal pipeline to inform on risks and align integration strategies.

Qualifications

A minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience is required, typically reflecting at least 10 years or more in the field.

Benefits

We offer a fast-paced and stimulating international environment that will challenge your abilities and harness your talents. Alongside a competitive salary and benefits package, we provide outstanding career development opportunities within one of the largest and most stable private companies globally.