Driven by the passion to improve the quality of people’s lives, WS Audiology continues to grow as the market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation to reach more people, more effectively.
This role reports to the Manufacturing Controller for Singapore and Philippines and will ensure accurate financial data for our manufacturing site located in Singapore. The role also ensures strong financial compliance, drives productivity initiatives, and ensures the function operates at a high level of excellence. Singapore produces 2/3 of the electronics components (300 FTE) and about 1/3 of hearing aids (100 FTE) produced by WSA globally.
What you will do
• Manage site operations and financial performance through daily, weekly, monthly and yearly indicators and tools
• Ensure reliability of site gross margin and site below gross margin expenses during closing process
• Provide all supporting information for closing entries (cut off adjustments, accruals, risk estimates…)
• Ensure accuracy of management control and costing information in the ERP system of the site
• Implement key internal control processes regarding site assets
• Support plant operations Continuous Improvement and monitor site productivity plans (labour, overheads, material)
• Manage site accounting support and interface for tax credit, grants and subsidies
• Elaborate and report all information related to profitability analysis
• Support Operations management control by ensuring proper supply of all costing information
What you bring
The ideal candidate will have a strong accounting background and will also be passionate and knowledgeable about leveraging technology to streamline and automate processes, to scale our work as the business continues to grow.
• A successful experience in (strategic as well as operational) accounting and controlling in a manufacturing / supply chain environment
• Experience in establishing and maintaining financial records systems in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and accounting principles for an industrial site
• Excellent understanding of local tax rules and legislation, both direct and indirect, in addition to International accounting rules (IFRS)
• Ideally exposure to brownfield for manufacturing / repair
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal – ability to clearly demonstrate and explain financial performance and underlying business drivers to a range of audiences
• Excellent people skills, capability to build excellent working relationships with corporate, and the Operations team
• Drive, determination and high standards. Resilience, high energy and a ‘can-do’ attitude
• Strategic mind-set, results orientated, accountable, takes responsibility and leads by example, raising standards
• A people-oriented person who is always looking for solutions and bringing quality improvements.
Who we are
At WS Audiology, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.
Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.
With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.
