Clyde & Co are inviting applications from Accounting professionals who have 6 years' relevant experience in audit and/or in-house controllership roles. This Singapore based role is offered on a full-time, permanent basis within the Clyde & Co APAC Finance Team.
About the role
The Regional Manager- Financial Controller will own and evolve a Financial Control Framework that ensures our accounting records are complete, accurate and our disclosures comply with local and international reporting standards . This role will provide technical accounting support and guidance across the APAC finance teams as well as lead local initiatives and the APAC work stream of global Controllership projects.
The Regional Manager- Financial Controller reports to the Head of Financial Control, Operations & Planning, APAC. This role works closely with the Finance Operations teams in the region and is akey contact point for Tax advisors, auditors and Controllership colleagues in the London office and other regional offices.
Key Responsibilities
- Ongoing review and maintenance of accounting treatment in line with local regulations, commercial drivers and firm policy
- Provide technical accounting support and guidance to respective APAC finance teams
- Perform technical accounting research as needed
- Liaise with London, usually the Central Controllership team
- Responsible for the completeness, accuracy, validity and disclosure of all account lines:
- Review preparation of monthly journals
- Oversee regular reconciliation to source
- Answering queries from Central Controllership team by providing required data and/or business analysis
- Design, implement, document and operate processes that meet the firms evolving processes for account ownership and upstream attestations
- Client monies
- Responsible for the integrity of client money, in line with SRA regulations
- Cash management
- Consolidate and review monthly cash flow funding forecasts provided by each country
- Identify and exploit opportunities to streamline the process via standardisation and optimal use of our accounting systems
- Continuous improvement
- Ongoing review and enhancement of end to end Financial Control and Reporting processes
- Optimising standardisation and operating efficiency; developing best practice tools and templates that streamline not only monthly posting activity but also quarterly forecasts and annual budgets
- Regular review of APAC control frameworks to maintain design and operating effectiveness
- Driving regional and/or global projects to successful outcomes - stakeholder communication, regional analyses, data requests, solution design, testing and training
- Regulatory Compliance
- Maintain a diary of annual regulatory submissions across the region; audit, tax, company filings etc
- Lead and oversee the statutory audits, Partnership tax and corporate tax across the region by:
- Managing day to day relationships with external auditors and tax advisors
- ensuring timely filing and reporting to regional regulators as well as Group
- Statutory audits:
- reconciling management to statutory accounts
- maintaining excel models that generate Annual Report pro formas and the schedules for notes to accounts from the trial balance and other inputs
- When requested, support a range of Financial Planning and Analysis activities:
- Supporting the annual budget and quarterly forecasts - generating capture templates, regional consolidation and system uploads for cashflow reporting, leases and regional provisioning
- Developing best practice tools and templates
Competencies
- Able to prioritise and organise, ensuring all tasks are completed at the right time, scope and quality with a minimal level of rework or duplication
- Able to work independently, under general direction, and create organised work plans and output requirements in timely manner
- A strong concern for quality - good business judgement and excellent attention to detail
- Track record of successful innovation; introducing new ideas and techniques to optimise process, controls and other practice
- Collaborating across teams and offices to achieve successful outcomes with the appropriate levels of support and challenge
- Committed to personal growth; keen to grow the role and progress their career in a dynamic environment.
Qualifications and experience
- A minimum 6 years' experience with combination of at least 3 years in audit and 3 years in house controllership roles, legal services experience preferred
- Tertiary qualifications at degree level in Finance/Accounting/Business essential
- CA/CPA qualified
- Strong analytical and technical accounting skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly advanced knowledge of Excel, 3E knowledge preferable.
About Clyde & Co
When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 490 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide.Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one,excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering, and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.
For more information, please visit www.clydeco.com
We offer a range of tailored benefits and support, including discounted private health insurance, first class family leave offering, and wellbeing initiatives.
Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our core values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.
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