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The Senior Accountant will join the finance strategic projects team within the controllership organization, supporting general accounting projects for business teams. The role focuses on creating efficient processes, developing general ledger solutions, supporting SAP implementations and ERP transformations, and partnering across functions to deliver project requirements on schedule. The position also involves training business teams and coordinating project milestones, dependencies, issues, and risks.
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Join Vylor—Powering the Future of Agriculture
At Vylor, we’re advancing agriculture through breakthrough science—combining elite germplasm, cutting-edge biotech, and next-generation expertise in gene editing and molecular breeding. Our portfolio includes trusted industry brands like Pioneer®, Brevant®, and Hoegemeyer®, delivering performance farmers rely on.
Join us to help scale innovation globally and shape what’s next in crop science.
Who are we and what do we do?
Vylor is a global leader in advanced seed and genetics. For more than a century, we've advanced scientific discovery and breakthrough innovation to help farmers feed and fuel the world. Our business is backed by next-generation scientific expertise and multiple, distinct routes to market, like our industry-leading seed brands and our licensing business.
The Vylo r innovation engine is anchored in the agriculture industry’s most elite germplasm and transformative biotech. The company will leverage its next generation scientific expertise in disciplines like gene editing and molecular breeding to further strengthen its core business while exploring opportunities to expand to new row crops – and potentially beyond. Vylor will scale these innovations using its leading routes-to-market and by significantly expanding its licensing business.
We're looking for a Senior Accountant to join our finance strategic projects team within our controllership organization. The GL Project Resource role will be a key team member and will help drive general accounting projects for our business teams that create productivity and efficiency of work processes. The purpose of this role is to deliver the Finance objectives while partnering with the business and functions to ensure that all project requirements are delivered according to the project timelines.
Primary Responsibilities - How will you help us Gro w!
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Design, create and build general ledger solutions for use by global controllership teams.
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Assist global team to develop new solutions and to drive automation.
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Assist on SAP implementations for GL & data take on workstream.
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Assist with data take on for all ERP & transformation projects.
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Build and leverage strong partnerships with other workstreams/functions, and the business.
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Communicate effectively, look for gaps in processes and designs.
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Create, maintain, and provide ongoing status updates for milestones / deliverables.
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Create, maintain, and provide ongoing reporting of project dependencies, issues, and risks, along with cross impacts, resolutions, and mitigations.
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Train business teams to ensure smooth transition and strong communication to user groups of any changes or impacts to their work processes.
Education and Experience – What you will bring to the table!
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Bachelors Degree in Accounting or Finance required.
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8-10 years’ experience in Controllership.
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Local GAAP Accounting Expertise.
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Country Controller/Regional Accounting Expert.
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Leadership Responsibility.
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Continuous Improvement.
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Excel/Access/Office/SAP a must
Skills Needed for Success
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Motivate and Drive Teams to excellence.
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Robust Accounting knowledge (USGAAP + Local Statutory Experience).
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Demonstrated history of meeting Local/Regional/Global Controllership reporting requirements.
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Strong SAP Technical Skills.
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People leader of regional/global teams.
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Depth of understanding in foreign currency accounting.
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Extensive understanding of global month end/year end closing processes.
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Extensive Finance Master Data Level Understanding (Cost Center/Customer/Vendor/GL…).
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Demonstrated excellence in communicating, planning, net-working, and organizing.
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Strong Collaboration and business partnering skills.
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Positive, open-minded, willing to drive change.
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Leadership and the ability to influence.
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Interpersonal effectiveness in team environments, coupled with good written and oral communications skills.
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Must exhibit skills and ability to prioritize and manage multiple items simultaneously.
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Flexibility to change course unexpectedly.
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Demonstrated track record of achieving results on time.
Benefits – How We’ll Support You:
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Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills
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Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place
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Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment
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Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays
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Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father
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Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program
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Learn more about our total rewards package here - Vylor Benefits (https://hrportal.ehr.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=joPuo3NxhtM%3d&portalid=423)
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Check out life at Vylor! https://www.linkedin.com/company/vylorgenetics/
Are you a good match? Apply today! We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team.
Vylor is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to embracing our differences to enrich lives, advance innovation, and boost company performance. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, military or veteran status, pregnancy related conditions (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), disability or any other protected status in accordance with federal, state, or local laws.
Corteva Agriscience™ is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to boldly embracing the power of inclusion, diversity, and equity to enrich the lives of our employees and strengthen the performance of our company, while advancing equity in agriculture. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. Discrimination, harassment and retaliation are inconsistent with our values and will not be tolerated. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit:Accessibility Page for Contact Information
For US Applicants: See the ‘Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law’ poster. To all recruitment agencies: Corteva does not accept unsolicited third party resumes and is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
How this job compares
Set against the 572 open Senior Accountant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$85–115K/yr230 salary ranges
- US median$45–52/hr25 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 572 open Senior Accountant jobs across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Robert Half Finance & Accounting162 open
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- Experience
- Senior Accountant postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 5 years (499 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 418 of the 572 open Senior Accountant jobs (73%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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