Are you a meticulous accounting professional with a passion for driving improvement and innovation? Bring your collaborative spirit to a dynamic workplace that cultivates empowerment and growth!
With your technical expertise, provide comprehensive support to the business by ensuring accurate reporting and adherence to local statutory compliance requirements.
Core Responsibilities:
1) Financial Accounting and Reporting
- Approve and review journal entries, including Blackline journal reconciliations, to ensure consistency and completeness of all postings with accurate coding, classification and aligned with local accounting standards
- Review the trial balance and general ledger entries for 2 to 3 APAC entities, ensuring alignment with accounting standards (local accounting standards, IFRS) and tax laws.
- Review monthly balance sheet reconciliations including supporting explanations and ensure follow up on outstanding balances and taking corrective actions where needed
- Performs variance analyses for movements on all accounts to keep financials free from probable errors and misstatements
- Be responsible for financial reporting processes, including preparation and review of annual financial statements
2) Audit and Compliance
- Maintains adherence to local statutory reporting rules, tax requirements for entities in region and lead communication with external and internal auditors, including planning, coordinating with auditors, and addressing queries
- Responsibility for the completion and review of internal and external statutory reporting and audit requirements and ensure compliance with local accounting standards, global processes, and company policies
- Collaborate with legal and tax teams to provide data and ensure compliance with laws and regulations
- Work closely with tax, transfer pricing, legal, AP, and treasury teams on various processes, including GST filings, transfer pricing adjustments, and legal compliance
- Prepares, review and submit government reports, and ad-hoc financial information requests
3) Operational Oversight
- Collaborate with the treasury team for activities such as capital injections, foreign payments, and cash flow management
- Provide support for ad-hoc requests, including certificates and documentation for tax and legal teams
4) Process Improvement and Problem Solving
- Identify and implement solutions and processes to address outstanding local requirements while aligning with global and regional processes
- Proactively address ad-hoc requests and design solutions for issues related to accounting, tax, and regulatory compliance
Play your part in our team succeeding!
You will be a part of Business Service Operations (BSO), which is a shared service center that delivers Employee and Finance services to The LEGO Group from 5 locations – Monterrey, Prague, Singapore, China and Vietnam. The purpose of the BSO is to build an effective and efficient platform to support the growth strategy of The LEGO Group and our ambitions to reach twice as many children over the next 5-7 years. Joining this team will put you in a professional environment with a culture that is passionate about quality, learning and collaboration.
Within BSO, the GL team is responsible for the maintenance of the general ledger, preparation of the consolidation reports and meeting the global tax and statutory compliance requirements. The department balances a mix of internal resources and third parties to efficiently meet global compliance requirements. There is a strong focus on transparent and accurate status reporting, maintaining a strong internal control framework, using technology and standard processes to meet our operational targets.
The role requires a great teammate who is independent and has a self-starter mentality, one who can deliver operational objectives through strong collaboration and with a service approach towards key collaborators.
Do you have what it takes:
- BA degree or equivalent experience in Accounting, Finance or related
- More than 4 years of audit and/or financial controlling experience with consistent track record and solid experience in accounting regulations, preferably in a global MNC environment
- Proactive and self-motivated with a strong ability to work independently
- Solid understanding of accounting standards like IFRS, with detailed understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of accounting and compliance
- Proficiency in financial systems, including SAP and Excel
- Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to manage tight deadlines
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with proven track record to collaborate across cross-functional teams and geographies, including APAC and global collaborators
- Fluency in Mandarin, in addition to English, is required to effectively support the Taiwan entity and liaise with Mandarin-speaking collaborators
- Strong problem-solving skills to address local-specific complexities and align them with global processes
No relocation assistance is offered for this position.
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
What’s in it for you?
Here is what you can expect:
Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.
Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.
Just imagine building your dream career.
Then make it real.
Join the LEGO® team today.
Apply online at our LEGO Careers Portal today at: https://www.lego.com/en-sg/careers/job/specialist-general-ledger-69a721a46c711001a0018ff60ebe0000
