Sr. Manager, 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 – Financial Accounting to join the Corporate Controllership team based in the Alcoa Corporate Center in 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 requires the candidate to leverage their exceptional technical research expertise and outstanding project management abilities in a collaborative and dynamic team.  The role offers a high degree of learning opportunities both in terms of Alcoa’s business and technical accounting knowledge and interacts across multiple disciplines at all levels within the organization.

The role works within a world-class finance organization to provide accurate and transparent internal and external financial reporting, and resolve various technical accounting matters.

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, Financial Accounting.

Major activities include:


* Provide technical accounting guidance across the global organization for Alcoa’s most complex accounting and reporting topics in accordance with U.S.

GAAP.


* Assist in the preparation of consolidated financial statements, supporting schedules and disclosures for internal and external purposes, including 10-Q / 10-K filings with the SEC and financial reporting to the Board of Directors.


* Analyze monthly segment, legal entity and operations level financial results and summarize findings for senior financial management.


* Prepare presentations on key issues and updates to executive management.


* Stay abreast of requirements from the FASB, SEC and other standard setters and assess impact to Alcoa.


* 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.


* Participate in activities related to the quarterly reviews and the annual audit performed by external auditors.


* Manage accounting ...