IT Finance Controller

About the role

As the digital arm for the world's largest food and beverage company, Nestlé IT & Digital Americas harnesses the power of data, analytics, and innovative technology to deliver transformative solutions and business resiliency for Nestlé businesses and iconic brands from Purina® to Nescafé®. We’re innovators, strategic collaborators, value multipliers, and digital business leaders committed to delivering results that create meaningful experiences and drive value, enabling Nestlé to win in the marketplace. By joining, you become part of a 150-year legacy and a global team of 270,000+. We invest in our people—their growth, development, and sense of belonging. This shared unity and purpose is what motivates individuals to join, stay, and advance their careers within Nestlé.

Position Summary: As the IT Finance Controller, you'll serve as a finance partner to Nestlé IT leadership, working across Purina, IT & Digital, Finance, and enterprise teams to guide investment choices, steward financial performance, and help ensure technology spend delivers meaningful business value. Reporting directly to the Head of IT & Digital Americas Finance & Control, this highly visible role serves as the lead finance partner for the Purina IT portfolio, influencing investment decisions, funding priorities, and portfolio performance across a complex technology landscape. You'll help leaders balance strategic priorities, financial discipline, and value creation by providing insight, challenge, and guidance that support sound decision-making. Come prepared to bring clarity to complex topics, strengthen governance, simplify financial narratives, and support financial integrity across programs, people, and process in service of IT strategic priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning, forecasting, investment optimization, and scenario analysis to ensure investments remain affordable, appropriately funded, and aligned with strategic value drivers.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on IT business case development, capitalization, project accounting, funding mechanisms, and investment governance, providing independent financial challenge and guidance.
• Drive transparency into portfolio economics, financial risks, and investment trade-offs, identifying opportunities to improve cost efficiency, eliminate duplication, optimize spend, and enhance financial outcomes.
• Enable data-driven decisions regarding investment timing, scope, and resource deployment through robust financial analysis and forward-looking insights.
• Lead through collaboration and influence, coaching partners and strengthening financial acumen, accountability, and future-ready capabilities.
• Improve and simplify planning, forecasting, reporting, investment governance, cost allocation, chargeback, capitalization, and performance routines.
• Champion analytics, automation, and digital finance tools that reduce manual work and improve decision support.
• Lead planning, forecasting, long-range planning, and performance reviews with clear assumptions, risks, opportunities, and actions.
• Maintain one trusted financial view across systems and stakeholders, including management reporting, allocations, chargebacks, contracts, accruals, and audit readiness.
• Ensure Purina priorities remain aligned with enterprise investment governance, accounting, and control standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Accounting, Finance, International Relations, or a related field.
• 7+ years of finance or accounting experience, including responsibilities that demonstrate sound judgment, cross-functional partnership, and business impact.
• 5+ years of experience supporting projects, project management, or change management activities through a finance or accounting role.
• 3+ years of experience using tools such as Power Apps, Power BI, SAP reporting, or related digital finance and analytics platforms.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree, professional certification, or additional credentials in finance, accounting, business, or digital capabilities is preferred (but not required).

Benefits

• Performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package.
• 401k with company match.
• Healthcare coverage.
• Broad range of other benefits (details vary by position).

Pay

Salary: $111,798.00 to $160,735.00 per year. Bonus Eligibility: Yes.

This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.