General Ledger Manager

Are you passionate about accounting, financial reporting, and leading a finance team? Do you enjoy being an active partner in bringing the Business closer to its strategic goals? By joining our team in **Fiorenzuola, Italy **, you will become part of our Italian Center of Excellence Team

As the **General Ledger Manager for Italy **, you will oversee the Financial Reporting process for Emerson Italy sites, ensuring compliance with Statutory Accounts under ITA GAAP. Additionally, you will manage Tax Compliance, including VAT, Income Tax, and other taxes, in collaboration with tax advisors, with responsibilities encompassing four legal entities and five distinct sites.

Based in either **Seregno **or **Fiorenzuola d'Arda **, this role requires your **regular presence in Fiorenzuola **.

**In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be**:

- Lead and coordinate the General Ledger team to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting for five sites in Italy
- Coordinate the filing of annual Italian statutory accounts with local authorities, adhering to Italian GAAP standards in coordination with external tax advisors
- Ensure full tax compliance, including the management of indirect taxes (VAT, property tax, other taxes)
- Coordinate with Emerson Shared Service for US GAAP monthly reporting in HFM, ensuring adherence to accounting standards and Emerson policies (e.g., ICQ, revenue recognition, account reconciliations)
- Supervise three staff members, monitor performance, and provide constructive feedback
- Maintain strong relationships with management across all Italian sites
- Complete ad hoc projects to meet Emerson's requirements and business needs such as payroll software implementation
- Collaborate closely with internal and external auditors

**Who You Are**:
You are a positive person who believes collaboration is the key to success. You challenge yourself to achieve new goals and are not afraid to question the status quo. At the same time, you are not afraid to find creative solutions, providing calmness and productivity, even when things are unclear.

You readily distinguish between what’s relevant and what’s unimportant to make sense of complex situations and are able to provide balanced feedback at the most critical times, delivering messages in a clear, compelling, and concise manner.

**For This Role, You Will Need**:

- University degree or equivalent experience in accounting, finance or economics
- Extensive experience in financial, accounting, or auditing roles, with a focus on local Financial Reporting processes, including VAT, income tax and financial statements
- Good knowledge of US GAAP and ITA GAAP Accounting
- Ability to work successfully in a complex matrix organization and to interact with management
- Proficiency in Italian and a good level of English language
- Flexible to regularly work from our Fiorenzuola site (up to 40%)

**Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart**:

- Qualifications in accounting, experience in auditing and/or taxes or an MBA
- Experience in managing, developing and training employees

**Our Offer to You**

We understand the importance of work-life balance and are dedicated to supporting our employees' personal and professional needs. From competitive benefits plans and comprehensive medical care to equitable opportunities for growth and development we strive to create a workplace that is supportive and exciting.

At Emerson, we are committed to fostering a culture where every employee is valued and respected for their unique experiences and perspectives. We believe a diverse and inclusive work environment contributes to the rich exchange of ideas and diversity of thoughts, that inspires innovation and brings the best solutions to our customers. This philosophy is fundamental to living our company’s values and our responsibility to leave the world in a better place. Learn more about our Culture & Values and about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Emerson.

Our training programs and initiatives focus on end-to-end development, from onboarding through senior leadership. We provide a wide range of development opportunities, including face-to-face and virtual training, mentorship and coaching, project management, and on-the-job training.

Moreover, our global volunteer employee resource groups will empower you to connect with peers that share the same interest, promote diversity and inclusion and positively contribute to communities around us.

**WHY EMERSON**

**Our Commitment to Our People**

**At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.**

**We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, o