Main Activities and Objectives:
- Ensuring the financial development of the company in Malaysia, as part of the TSystems group and within the strategy of T-Systems. To lead and manage the company together with the CEO and to manage the Finance Team to ensure compliance with statutory requirements as well as policies and procedures defined on local level, corporate level in T-Systems and within Deutsche Telekom Group.
- Standard Finance and Controlling Responsibility over all Service Lines: accuracy of month-end results, Balance Sheet and Taxation, Forecasting and Budgeting Process, Analyzing of results and recommending corrective actions, Reporting to Shareholders and internal/external Stakeholders.
- To establish and control the application of policies and guidelines which manage the financial and accounting aspects of the company activities, according to criteria of the financial and cash optimization.
- Cash Management and ensuring of sufficient funding for growth also via external financial institutions.
- Advisory role in all strategic decisions of the company (e.g. investment in new Service Offering) regarding the financial impacts.
- Actively driving improvement of Profitability through defining the company strategy with the management board and discussion with the Managers in company and by enforcing and implementing corrective actions.
- Risk and Opportunity Management of all initiatives and actions.
- Legal function for T-Systems LBU (esp. for external customer and supplier contracts).
Customer orientation/ Relations:
Internal (interdepartmental):
- Support and advise MD and all Service Line Managers and Business Line Managers in TSystems LBU
- Integration and close interaction with corporate finance & controlling functions of T-Systems.
External:
- Contact with potential customers in Sales process (due diligence, price discussions and negotiations).
- Ongoing contacts with existing customers regarding any financial requests and price adjustments. Financial representation on joint Steering Committees with customers. (usual with CIO or CFO of customer).
- All local external suppliers especially of Hardware and Software (e.g. IBM, HP, Compaq, CA, BMC).
- Managing Shareholders & Financial Institutions and Auditors.
Management Responsibility:
- Management of finance & controlling team. and being responsible for its motivation and development
- Responsibility for all core financial functions of the company (Finance, Controlling, Procurement, Processes&IT, a.o. according to clusters as of corporate HQ FC).
- Incumbent shares responsibility for all sales/procurement activities in the country within the given guidelines.
Requirements
- Candidate should possess a good track record of at least 8 years of operational experience in the Finance & Controlling area and will already be in a management position.
- Candidate should preferably work within an international matrix company(ies) operating in the ICT sector.
- Has a thorough, up to date and practical knowledge of financial/controlling methods and tools, financial processes and controls (SOX 404), general management and leadership.
- Candidate must have a clear career progression, and demonstrated track record of successfully filling roles with ever-increasing responsibility, as well as concrete achievements, in projects.
- Ideally, candidate must demonstrates a good understanding of the function, being familiar with the strategic and operational dimensions of the job, the global business drivers and priorities, the objectives of the company and future business challenges and knowledge of the ICT market
- Candidate must strives to continuously improve and to come up with ways of improving financial processes and procedures.
- Will be supporting the business and providing transparent information to the business to enable the steering of the company.
- The candidate must possess experience in strategic planning and execution and shows the ability to combine international requirements with local needs. By having a helicopter view, but also a “hands-on” style, candidate must be willing and competent to drive concrete actions and to offer pragmatic solutions to problems.
- Possess a hard-working and results-oriented attitude with good time management and has excellent interpersonal, leadership, communication and negotiation skills, which inspire and facilitate team thinking and team achievements.
- Possess a University/college degree in economic sciences
- Conversational German language is required, due to the close collaboration with Headquarters
