Jeff Mcclellan Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Deerfield Il

-Lead the benefit accounting of a Fortune 100 company with benefit plans with liabilities in excess of $13 billion in over 30 countries covering approximately 100,000 participants.-Responsible for the accounting of all benefit plans, such as pension, post-retirement medical, post-employment, health and welfare, and defined contribution.-Provide External Reporting department with quarterly and annual disclosure information for publication in the 10-Q and 10-K for the U.S. and non-U.S. employee benefit plans.-Manage the relationship with external actuarial firm coordinating the delivery of all necessary actuarial information globally.-Develop and support the setting of assumptions for all benefit plans.-Manage Senior Benefits Analyst, who performs day-to-day accounting of the U.S. plans-Oversight of the establishment of US GAAP accounting in 18 countries.-Provide Financial Planning and Analysis department with forecasts of benefit costs.-Key liaison/facilitator between the auditors and accounting, benefits and treasury departments.for completion of seven ERISA benefit plan audits.-Instrumental in pension accounting of European plans involved in the creation of Joint Venture related to the Coffee Business.

Northfield, Il

-Provide accounting and leadership oversight for multiple company benefit plans including medical, 401(k) and pension.-Manage vendor relationships with plan actuaries, record keepers, auditors, and benefit providers.-Responsible, together with Human Resources, Payroll, Tax and Finance, for benefit plan compliance.-Complete annual pension and retiree health actuarial valuations.-Responsible for benefit plan compliance with DOL, IRS & SOX requirements.-Serve as benefit plan expert providing support to all business units participating in the plans.-Trustee for two Multi-Employer benefit plans, Secretary of ERISA Committee and a active member of benefits committee.

-Manage a department in a shared services environment that interacts with business units, Controller, Human Resources, Payroll, actuarial firms, benefit providers, and auditing.-Accounting manager for all company defined benefit and contribution and group insurance plans.-Responsible for compliance with all FASBs and IAS relating to benefit plans accounting.

-Manage financial statement preparation, government filings, accounting records and budgets for company benefit plans.

-Analyze and report group insurance and pension costs by business unit by plant and by plan.-Develop cost allocation criteria and allocate costs to the proper business units accordingly. -Prepared annual 5500 plan reports-Developed company budgets.