Senior Manager – External Reporting and Financial Accounting

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress.

The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

At Alcoa, you’re an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress.

This is an opportunity for you to bring your wealth of experience to the team and help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies.

You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the role:

Alcoa is seeking a Senior Manager – External Reporting and Financial Accounting to join the Corporate Controllership team based in the Alcoa Corporate Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

An exciting and meaningful role at the center of Alcoa’s in-house expertise on technical accounting matters.  The Corporate Controllership team consists of highly qualified CPAs with extensive experience in financial accounting and business matters.

Situated next to Alcoa’s Executive Team, this is a highly visible role.

The role offers a high degree of learning opportunities both in terms of Alcoa’s business and technical accounting knowledge.

This role will have considerable ongoing interaction with a wide group of stakeholders across the company including Alcoa’s Legal, Tax, Treasury, Financial Planning & Analysis, Investor Relations, and Communications Teams.

The role requires a results-oriented, collaborative, strategic thinker, with outstanding communication skills who demonstrates the highest level of integrity and trust.

This role reports to the Director, External Reporting and Financial Accounting.

Major activities include:


* Manage all aspects of periodic, quarterly, and annual SEC filings including detailed planning, cross-functional coordination, and review of the entire report.


* Oversee the preparation of consolidated financial statements and supporting schedules for internal and external purposes.


* Review or prepare disclosures for 10-Q / 10-K filings with the SEC and financial reporting to the Board of Directors, including Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements and Management’s Discussion and Analysis.


* Work closely with Corporate Communications, Corporate Secretary’s Office, and Investor Relations related to our external filings, investor presentations, and related public releases and statements, including drafting of financial sections and statements.


* Coordinate review by stakeholders and document Alcoa’s conclusions related to new or proposed guidance from the FASB, SEC, and other standard setters.


* Manage a direct team of two talented CPAs.


* Evaluate, develop and implement accounting policy; create solutions for new accounting pronouncements; develop and maintain global accounting and reporting standards; communicate and train accounting community on new policies and procedures.


* Analyze monthly segment, legal entity, and opera...