Assistant Controller, Accounting

Why Hershey: 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 difference—locally and globally—is part of how we do business every day. Job Overview

About The Hershey Company   The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) is an industry-leading snacks company known for making more moments of goodness through its iconic brands. With a strong portfolio across chocolate, confectionery, and salty snacks, Hershey delights consumers every day. Our beloved brands include Hershey’s, Reese’s, KitKat®, Dots Pretzels, Lesser Evil, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Ice Breakers, and more.   At Hershey, we are committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities where we live, work, and do business. This commitment originated with our founder, Milton Hershey, and continues to shape who we are today.   Guided by our employee value proposition, **Lead Today. Create Tomorrow, **we empower our people to drive impact now while shaping what comes next. Our One Hershey mindset brings teams together across functions, geographies, and businesses, enabling us to operate with speed, collaboration, and shared purpose.   The Hershey Company is proud to be recognized as a top employer in the United States, reflecting our commitment to our people, culture, and purpose.   How will you fit in the big picture?   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

What will you do?

Perform 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 & Requirements

Minimum Requirements Experience:

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.

BA/BS in Accounting