Senior Accountant-GL
Vylor
At Vylor, we’re advancing agriculture through breakthrough science—combining elite germplasm, cutting-edge biotech, and next-generation expertise in gene editing and molecular breeding. Our portfolio includes trusted industry brands like Pioneer, Brevant, and Hoegemeyer, delivering performance farmers rely on.
Join us to help scale innovation globally and shape what’s next in crop science.
Join Vylor—Powering the Future of Agriculture
At Vylor, we’re advancing agriculture through breakthrough science—combining elite germplasm, cutting-edge biotech, and next-generation expertise in gene editing and molecular breeding. Our portfolio includes trusted industry brands like Pioneer, Brevant, and Hoegemeyer, delivering performance farmers rely on.
Join us to help scale innovation globally and shape what’s next in crop science.
Who are we and what do we do?
Vylor is a global leader in advanced seed and genetics. For more than a century, we've advanced scientific discovery and breakthrough innovation to help farmers feed and fuel the world. Our business is backed by next-generation scientific expertise and multiple, distinct routes to market, like our industry-leading seed brands and our licensing business.
The Vylor innovation engine is anchored in the agriculture industry’s most elite germplasm and transformative biotech. The company will leverage its next generation scientific expertise in disciplines like gene editing and molecular breeding to further strengthen its core business while exploring opportunities to expand to new row crops – and potentially beyond. Vylor will scale these innovations using its leading routes-to-market and by significantly expanding its licensing business.
We're looking for a Senior Accountant to join our finance strategic projects team within our controllership organization. The GL Project Resource role will be a key team member and will help drive general accounting projects for our business teams that create productivity and efficiency of work processes. The purpose of this role is to deliver the Finance objectives while partnering with the business and functions to ensure that all project requirements are delivered according to the project timelines.
Primary Responsibilities - How will you help us Grow!
- Design, create and build general ledger solutions for use by global controllership teams.
- Assist global team to develop new solutions and to drive automation.
- Assist on SAP implementations for GL & data take on workstream.
- Assist with data take on for all ERP & transformation projects.
- Build and leverage strong partnerships with other workstreams/functions, and the business.
- Communicate effectively, look for gaps in processes and designs.
- Create, maintain, and provide ongoing status updates for milestones / deliverables.
- Create, maintain, and provide ongoing reporting of project dependencies, issues, and risks, along with cross impacts, resolutions, and mitigations.
- Train business teams to ensure smooth transition and strong communication to user groups of any changes or impacts to their work processes.
- Bachelors Degree in Accounting or Finance required.
- 8-10 years’ experience in Controllership.
- Local GAAP Accounting Expertise.
- Country Controller/Regional Accounting Expert.
- Leadership Responsibility.
- Continuous Improvement.
- Excel/Access/Office/SAP a must
- Motivate and Drive Teams to excellence.
- Robust Accounting knowledge (USGAAP + Local Statutory Experience).
- Demonstrated history of meeting Local/Regional/Global Controllership reporting requirements.
- Strong SAP Technical Skills.
- People leader of regional/global teams.
- Depth of understanding in foreign currency accounting.
- Extensive understanding of global month end/year end closing processes.
- Extensive Finance Master Data Level Understanding (Cost Center/Customer/Vendor/GL…).
- Demonstrated excellence in communicating, planning, net-working, and organizing.
- Strong Collaboration and business partnering skills.
- Positive, open-minded, willing to drive change.
- Leadership and the ability to influence.
- Interpersonal effectiveness in team environments, coupled with good written and oral communications skills.
- Must exhibit skills and ability to prioritize and manage multiple items simultaneously.
- Flexibility to change course unexpectedly.
- Demonstrated track record of achieving results on time.