Job Summary
This job initiates accounting processes to ensure financial statements meet local GAAP and monitor the closing process, posting journal entries for necessary adjustments. You ll meet statutory requirements for regulatory reports, external audits, and may participate in the preparation of financial statements. Additionally, you ll support the organization in meeting local and global regulatory obligations, prepare annual reconciliations between local GAAP and IFRS, and drive process control rigor to support quarterly financial certifications.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
- Initiate accounting processes to ensure financial statements meet local GAAP
- Monitor the accounting closing process and post journal entries for any required adjustments in the local ledger
- Support the organization in meeting local and global regulatory obligations
- Drive process control rigor to support quarterly certification on financials
- Implement monthly financial reports and analytics to support structured risk-based monthly financial reviews
- Implement statutory financial statements and ensure timely completion of statutory audits
- Facilitate month-end, quarter-end, and year-end accounting close activities
- Review and prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, roll-forwards, and month-end reporting packages
Expected Qualifications
- 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications
What you need to know about the role
This role reports to the Finance controller, based in Singapore, and works closely with finance stakeholders across Tax, Transfer pricing, Treasury, and Global Controllership.
Meet our team
You will be a key member of the International Controllership team, responsible for maintaining and driving controllership rigor and discipline, while ensuring statutory and regulatory compliance for legal entities across APAC.
Your way to impact
- Oversee the finance and accounting processes of the legal entities in APAC
- P artner with the business, legal and compliance teams, ensuring new regulations and changes are incorporated and operationalized in a timely manner to support growth
Your day to day
- Prepare monthly and ad-hoc financial reports to support structured risk-based financial reviews
- Review and analyze financial fluctuations using data analytics, supported by business insights from cross-functional teams
- Ensure compliance of legal entity financials with IFRS/local financial reporting standards, and internal accounting policies
- Conduct regular reviews of account reconciliations, including the timely follow-up and resolution of open or aged items
- Identify anomalies affecting financials and work with cross-functional teams to address and implement corrective actions
- Prepare annual audited financial statements and ensure timely completion of statutory audits
- Review business processes to strengthen internal controls and monitor remediation of control deficiencies
- Support regulatory submissions and tax filings
- Assess the financial impact of new product launches and regulatory changes
- Contribute to assigned projects, such as system migration or new entity setups
- Identify and implement opportunities to enhance internal processes, leveraging automation and AI tools to increase efficiency
Key Internal and External Contacts
- Global Controllership and Accounting
- Direct tax, Indirect tax and Transfer Pricing
- Business and FP&A
- Consulting firms and External auditors
