Accounting Analyst IV Coordinator

Accounting Analyst IV Coordinator Job Description Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.  You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.  From our new Hub in Pune, you will own important work that will enable our organization to succeed globally.

Owns and leads end-to-end freight accounting across clearing, accrual, and reconciliation processes, ensuring accurate and timely recording in SAP in line with close timelines, GAAP, and SOX/internal controls. Drives governance, issue resolution, and continuous improvement, partnering closely with Transportation, Accounts Payable/Freight Payment Provider, RTR/Corporate Accounting, and IT/Master Data to reduce aged balances, prevent duplicate/miss posted activity, and improve upstream process quality. Provides day-to-day leadership to the freight accounting team, including work allocation, coaching, quality checks, and performance management against agreed SLAs. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business, or equivalent practical experience; MBA/CPA/CMA is a plus. 10+ years of progressive experience in GL accounting & Costing operations (RTR/AP/Supply Chain Accounting preferred) with strong ownership of period close, and balance sheet reconciliations. Strong SAP experience (FI/CO, MM) including investigation of posting flows, configuration impacts, and master data dependencies; freight payment system exposure preferred. Proven experience leading a team or workstream (planning, coaching, quality checks, and stakeholder management), ideally in a GBS/shared services environment. Demonstrated control mindset with SOX/internal controls, audit support, and process documentation.

Strong analytical and problem-solving capability; able to lead complex exception investigation and root-cause remediation across functions. People/workstream leadership: coaching, prioritization, quality management, and performance management in a deadline-driven close environment. Strong control mindset with ability to design/operate controls, maintain audit-ready documentation, and ensure segregation of duties. Stakeholder management and communication: able to influence Transportation, AP, RTR, and IT/Master Data and drive decisions/escalations. Strong SAP and reporting skills; advanced Excel; ability to build/interpret trend and variance analysis to drive improvements. Continuous improvement / change management mindset (standardization, automation, and simplification). Ready to work in US shift time.

Leads end-to-end freight accounting operations— clearing, accrual, and reconciliation —by managing team execution and backlog to meet the close calendar; ensuring SOP compliance, quality reviews, and SAP posting discipline ; owning and reporting SLAs/KPIs ; and driving automation/continuous improvement with IT/Master Data. Ensures effective invoice-to-accrual/shipment matching , timely clearing of open items , accurate period freight accruals (including capitalization vs. expense), and complete monthly reconciliations with audit-ready support; partners with Transportation and AP to resolve exceptions, reduce aged balances, and remediate root causes, including SOX/audit coordination. Led by Purpose. Driven by You. To Be Considered Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our