Responsibilities:
1) Business partnership
- Establishing strong partnership with line of business team leads.
- Engage with various stakeholders for financial planning and analysis activities such as ensuring accuracy of accrual models, appropriate accounting and true-up activities.
- Provide active support as well as providing responses to financial queries to stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
2) Financial Modelling & Accounting
- Understand the underlying design, data inputs, calculation nuances, systematic configuration as well as payment methodologies and resulting accounting impact for each of those elements for the company incentive scheme.
- Lead and manage the accounting team for ensuring appropriate accounting, month end and quarterly activities and ensure accuracy across all companies in the group.
3) Controls & Compliance
- Ongoing monitoring of actual spend against budget, as well as leading actions needed for any expected shortfalls.
- Collation of data and generating monthly management reports of financial results for the group of companies.
- Managing collections/AR and generating cashflow forecast and taking the necessary actions to prevent any cash shortfalls.
- Liaising with auditors for the annual audits and tax agents for annual tax filing.
4) Leadership & Teamwork
- People management skills to lead a small team of accounts executives.
- Good EQ and able to get along with superiors & peers including those from other divisions and geography.
Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years of working experience in accounting, controllership or finance roles.
- Excellent working knowledge of MS Excel as well as data analysis skillset.
- Ability to understand, document and test complex processes.
- Accounting expertise to handle monthly closing and analysis responsibilities.
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills with ability to design and implement solutions.
- Ability to work well in matrixed organisation and dealing with ambiguity.
- Professional accounting qualification (CPA/ACCA/CIMA).
- Internal audit or controls and compliance experience is an advantage.
- Knowledge of Autocount software is preferred.
