Assistant Finance Accounting & Reporting Manager

Job description

Job Mission:

This role is part of the Finance Business Services (FBS) team, a regional service center that ensures all financial accounting and reporting activities across APAC markets are consistent and aligned.

The Assistant Financial Accounting & Reporting Manager plays a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of a company’s financial records and reporting, while adhering to all relevant accounting standards and regulations.  This role involves not only month end closing activities but also delivering the first level of insights from financial statements.  The person will also manage fixed assets accounting, inventory closing and have a full understanding of the financial numbers.   This position is playing an important role to protect our brand integrity through rock solid reporting and mitigate financial risks to the House.

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to Senior Financial Accounting and Reporting Manager, the incumbent will be responsible to perform the overall month end closing for Taiwan Region market:

·  Be accountable for timely and accurate recording of journal entries based on the agreed service level agreements (SLAs) & defined closing mechanism.   Manage month-end and year-end closing activities in accordance with local accounting standards and IFRS.
·  Review output to identify errors / inconsistencies. Make subsequent corrections based on the nature of the account to ensure accuracy and quality of work.
·  Be responsible for the preparation of balance sheet reconciliations, statutory financial statements and global reporting.   
·  Prepare variance analyses, defined Key Risk Indicator (KRIs) and commentaries, and ensure variances and reconciling items are identified and resolved in a timely manner.
·  Demonstrate advanced proficiency with financial and operational systems and their interdependencies including their functionality, workflows, automated controls, and associated facilitation of data consolidation, reporting, and robust analytics
·  Orchestrate strong collaboration between various teams in finance community to achieve month end closing in good quality and timely manner
·  Support Financial Accounting and Reporting manager on new financial initiatives and changing business requirements.

Academic/Professional Qualifications

·  University degree
·  CPA/CA/ICAA or equivalent will be an advantage

Work Experience

·  Minimum 5 years working experience, inclusive of 2 years of managerial experience
·  Big 4 audit experience is an advantage
·  Worked in Shared Service Center is an advantage
·  Solid expertise / operational know-how of all finance processes (AP, AR, GL, inventory accounting, etc) and understanding of market specificities
·  Fluent in English is a must and fluent in Mandarin or other Asian language are an advantage

Required Competencies

·  Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness , personal strengths and address development areas
·  Drive self and team members to work outside of their comfort zones
·  Use failure as an opportunity for immediate learning , feedback and new thinking for personal and team development
·  Foster a sense of team spirit to create a shared ownership of the team’s objectives
·  Build working relationships that promote synergy among team members . Actively solicit the involvement of team members and usage of their varied skills and interests when needed for joint collaboration
·  Consider local, regional and global perspectives when shaping solutions / recommendations
·  Identify and resolve conflicts among team members by providing a middle ground and building a consensus
·  Able to speak up and challenge assumptions and critically evaluate different solutions to problems to determine the best courses of action that can address obstacles
·  Make decisions and create solutions in consideration of multiple teams and stakeholders’ interests
·  Configure content of speech or presentation in accordance with the relevant audience
·  Examine and modify message prior to presentation by organising information logically
·  Utilise visuals to create an effective and compelling message when presenting
·  Use examples, analogies, metaphors , and other storytelling techniques to clarify ideas and convey a clear message