Job Description:
As Chief Financial Officer of Asia & Oceania Bloc, responsible for credit risk control, financial closing, internal control, affiliate control, and treasury management of ITOCHU's regional offices located in Singapore, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Also in charge of giving strategic advice and solution for future growth (investment, new business etc) and current facing matters of ITOCHU group in financial point of view in collaboration with CEO for Asia & Oceania
*ITOCHU's business segments around the bloc includes fields in Textile, Machinery, Metals&Minerals, Energy&Chemical, Food, General Products&Reality, ICT&Finance.
- In charge of managing ITOCHU Singapore's Finance & Accounting Dept and Risk Management & Affiliate Control Departments.
- Ensure that the financial information necessary for use by CEO for Asia & Oceania is prepared to a consistently high standard and adheres to company and regulatory policies, procedures and standards (International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)).
- Maintain strong relations with Headquarters to understand its strategy and its management policies, especially its financial management policies, that apply to the company and ITOCHU's regional offices.
- Ensure that excellent relationships are maintained between the company’s bankers and the company’s treasury department
- Ensure tax compliance including regional offices, and the resolution of tax accounting issues and assessment of local tax provisions.
- Ensure internal control procedures are established and maintained throughout the company including regional offices.
- Ensure no bad debt occurred by setting proper credit line to all customers.
Job Requirements:
1)Excellent leadership and communication skills including proven ability to effectively convey information and ideas clearly in both written and verbal means.
2)Capability of coaching and motivating Group staffs for better performance and contributions.
3)Challenging, open minded, sensitive and able to work in multicultural environment.
4) Problem-solving and analytics skills with demonstrated ability to identify and define problems, verify cause of problem and develop feasible solutions to resolve problems identified.
5) Expertise in Accounting (IFRS), Taxation and Finance.
6) Bilingual in both English and Japanese. Proficient in Japanese language (written & spoken), for interaction with Native Japanese-speaking counterparts, internal/external stakeholders.
N1 level of Japanese-Language Proficiency Test level is mandatory.