Assistant Controller, Accounting at Hershey

Assistant Controller, Accounting

At The Hershey Company, our culture is rooted in purpose and inspired by Milton Hershey's enduring vision that business should create opportunity for others. Through our commitment to corporate philanthropy, we create positive impact by supporting communities, helping children thrive, and operating as a business for good. This includes our deep and long standing partnership with Milton Hershey School, where we invest in education, workforce readiness, and hands on engagement to help students succeed beyond the classroom. Supported by strategic grantmaking, product donations, cross brand collaboration, and strong employee volunteerism, Hershey offers a place to work where making a differencelocally and globallyis part of how we do business every day.

The Assistant Controller Accounting role supports gross-to-net accounting for US CMG & Salty and Mexico, with a focus on revenue recognition, trade promotions, customer waste and allowances, and maintaining a strong internal control environment. This role offers the opportunity to partner across Commercial Accounting, Sales, and Customer Finance while helping ensure financial results accurately reflect customer trends and business activity. In this role, you'll help support a significant commercial accounting scope, including gross-to-net activity, AR/deductions, commercial variance explanations, and backup support for Mexico-related analysis. You'll also contribute to process consistency and continuous improvement across the commercial accounting platform, including support for the S/4 global template solution.

Accountabilities include performing monthly close activities, journal entries, and account reconciliations for designated business unit income statement and balance sheet accounts. Support month-end variance explanations for management and partner with Sales/Customer Finance to maintain awareness of customer trends. Assist in developing, maintaining, and communicating financial and internal control policies and procedures. Audit trade promotion payments to support validity, accuracy, and retail execution. Provide guidance to commercial business unit finance teams related to trade spend, management reporting, and analytics. Help drive continuous process improvement, including a continuous-close mindset and consistent processes across Revenue, Trade, and CWA areas.

Minimum education and requirements include 3+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience. Prior experience with a global public company preferred. CPA or equivalent preferred. Strong accounting, control, and finance abilities with process discipline, continuous improvement mindset, leadership, and peer influence. Education: BA/BS in Accounting or Finance.

Nearest Major Market: Harrisburg