Finance Manager

When you join GAR, you join something bigger. Big in scale, big in opportunities to grow, and big in impact. With over 100,000 employees across 14 countries, spanning Asia, Europe, North America, and South America, Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) is one of the largest agribusinesses in the world.

We manage over half a million hectares of palm oil plantations, including smallholder farms, across Indonesia. But our size is only part of the story. Since 1997, we’ve put sustainability at the centre of how we grow, working hand-in-hand with farmers, communities, and partners to deliver food, fuel, and a better future.

We’re a seed-to-shelf business rooted in palm oil, now expanding across other essential crops like sugar, soybean, sunflower, and coconut.

Our people are our edge. We invest in them through global opportunities, cross-border exposure, and continuous learning, because growing a better business starts with growing our people.

Here, your career feeds something meaningful for the planet, people, and generations to come

We are looking for an experienced Finance Manager to join our team in São Paulo, Brazil. In this role, you will oversee all aspects of finance, accounting, tax, legal, IT, and treasury, including financial reporting, budgeting, taxation, cash management, and statutory compliance. You will be responsible for maintaining the full set of ledgers and accounts, managing monthly closing activities, preparing financial and statutory reports, ensuring compliance with applicable local, international, and internal accounting and tax standards, and supporting the timely and accurate consolidation of financial information for Head Office.

As a business partner, you will provide data-driven insights to support decision-making and play a key role in building systems, processes, and frameworks from scratch, particularly across finance, tax, legal, and treasury. This is a highly hands-on role, especially during the initial phase, requiring you to personally execute and/or review key finance processes such as payments, bank reconciliations, tax calculations, invoicing, accounting entries, and month-end closing. We are looking for someone who is proactive, improvement-oriented, and solution-driven, with strong analytical and organizational skills, excellent communication abilities, and a collaborative mindset.

The ideal candidate will also have the ability to lead, motivate, and develop teams while working effectively in a dynamic and growing environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain all accounting records in the ERP system to ensure accuracy of the general ledger and financial accounts.
• Lead the monthly and annual financial closing processes through the preparation of standard reports as well as other custom reports as requested.
• Review and analyse financial statements/records and provide reports and data analysis to various internal stakeholders.
• Manage day-to-day risk exposures, -reports and -mitigation measures such as insurances, hedges etc. Work with credit team to manage counterpart exposures and follow up on overdue receivables.
• Ensure adequate liquidity to support the business, support/investigate/expand local or central funding opportunities.
• Lead the transition of the bookkeeping from external service providers to "in-house".
• Ensure desired IT platform and relevant key procedures will be implemented.
• Coordinate and assist finance department in Brazil with the financial record keeping of the activities undertaken in Brazil.
• Oversee local administrative matters and purchase office supplies and equipment while maintaining appropriate stock levels in a cost-efficient manner.
• Manage and execute all payments and customer invoicing, including entering payment instructions into the online banking system and coordinating the required approvals to ensure payments are released accurately and within the established deadlines.
• Prepare and process cash claims and expense reimbursements for the Brazilian team.
• Advise and assist various departments on accounting, tax and legal compliance by researching and ensuring compliance to applicable internal, national and international rules and regulations.
• Coordinate external / internal audits and prepare audit requirements.
• Liaise with central teams in Singapore / Jakarta for ad-hoc queries and analysis requests.
• Act as the primary point of contact for office managers, IT teams, auditors, accountants, finance managers, and HR teams across other locations in the EU and Americas regions.
• Act as the first point of contact for external stakeholders such as banks, legal, tax authorities and other regulatory bodies, service providers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 8+ years’ relevant experience in accounting, finance and trade control
• Strong knowledge of Brazilian and international accounting, tax and regulatory requirements.
• Working experience in the Commodity industry
• Experience with tax, legal, banking
• Experience with implementing IT systems and consolidation work
• Proficient with MS Office
• Experience with ERP software (SAP is an advantage)
• Experience working in an international environment
• Experience building & leading a high performing team
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• Fluent in Spanish, both written and spoken is preferred

We Offer

• An entrepreneurial and international environment where developing opportunities for growth is valued
• Training opportunities, locally and globally
• Health insurance
• Meal support (vale refeição)
• Transport support/Parking lot (Vale transporte ou vaga de estacionamento)

Please note that we may incorporate an assessment and reference checks in our selection procedures.