Finance Director, APAC

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and provide strategic direction to the Finance team with a focus on improving the month end close process and financial controls of the APAC Finance organization.
• Maintain and enhance the region’s accounting principles, practices, procedures, and initiatives.
• Maintain and enhance the internal control, policy, and process framework for the region, ensuring greater consistency, harmonization, and standardization to the global organization.
• Lead the monthly financial close activities of the region, working alongside the market Finance Controllers to review the results and ensure a fast, efficient, and accurate close, escalating accounting issues for resolution.
• Oversee a standardized regional balance sheet review process using Blackline capabilities to provide oversight and set expectations around the accuracy and confidence in the balance sheet accounts/ values.
• Partner/ liaise with the Corporate Controller team, working proactively on improvements to US GAAP reporting, global policies, accounting, and control setting processes to mitigate risk and enable growth and scalability underpinned with excellence in compliance and relevant controls.
• Work closely with Internal / External Audit to facilitate SOX, quarterly reviews, and year-end integrated audits. Coordinate and oversee the execution of all audit procedures to ensure timeliness in completion and resolution of test work and open items.
• Key APAC stakeholder for the Global ERP Program, with focus on the Record-To-Report management process.
• Leading a team of 5 direct staff at the manager/controller level, while having indirect responsibilities for their teams across the region.
• Drive organization improvements to develop a high performing team, working with direct and indirect staff to ensure that adequate development plans are in place so that the organization creates and grows a bench of high performing finance and accounting talent.
• Finance leader to the regional commercial and operational management for the accounting treatment of contemplated business initiatives or new markets.

Qualification & Requirements

• Qualified Accountant (ACA /CIMA/ ACCA or equivalent} with strong background in Financial Accounting Internal Controls, and preferably in Shared Services.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential, along with the ability to analyze complex issues and recommend and implement practical solutions.
• Proven leader of extended teams, combining the team, individual development, and tasks.
• Strong data/numerical skills, with solid system capabilities.
• An international mindset – culturally aware, flexible, and pragmatic.
• Solutions oriented – not someone who hides behind policy and procedure.
• Demonstrable experience in US GAAP Accounting and Transfer Pricing would be viewed positively.
• Additional languages are always beneficial, and a solid understanding of an integrated ERP system (MS Dynamics preferred} would be an advantage.

Experience:

• Experience of working in a multi-cultural, international Finance Shared Service Centre role.
• Will have managed a Finance team with international responsibilities.
• Experience gained in a Global/US matrix managed business is highly desirable.
• Post M&A business integration experience is desirable.

Benefits

• Insurance Benefits
• Retirement Benefits
• Vacation Policy
• Other Perks and Benefits…