Senior Accounting Manager
Location: Singapore, South East SG
Job Number: 1067
External Description:
- Driving accounting excellence
- Driving compliance through governance
- Enhancing internal controls- policies and practices
About the Role:
Reporting to Senior Director, Finance APAC, and as a member of the APAC Finance Leadership Team, this role will drive governance processes to ensure best-in-class accounting and financial practices for the region and ensuring that all financial compliance activities meet with relevant company, statutory and legal requirements.
Responsibilities will encompass overseeing statement accuracy, enhancing internal controls by implementing corporate policies and procedures, SOPs as required. The role will also lead projects to implement tools, automate financial processes and drive operational productivity.
Strong communication, influencing and collaboration skills will be required as the role works with several key stakeholders such as Country Finance Heads, in-country accounting leads, corporate accounting group, Internal Audit, Corporate Tax and Statutory Auditors.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with US GAAP and local requirements
- Understand, interpret and Implement corporate accounting policy and accounting standards in the Asia Pacific
- Implement new and rules as per corporate
- Close oversight on monthly accounting close process ensuring all accounting balances are reconciled with supporting documentation
- Ensure all monthly, quarterly, yearly and ad hoc corporate submission deadlines are met
- Record / coordinate month end accounting transaction/entries with corporate / divisions and ensuring confirmations from both the sides
- Perform / coordinate periodical SOX testing requirements and recording the evidence for Auditors review
- Oversight on standard cost revaluation and amortization process
- Coordinate and monitor annual stock count process for each warehousing locations
- Conduct quarterly Balance Sheet review for each legal entity, analyzing and taking corrective actions
- Organize monthly controller call for key updates on financial compliance matters
- Conduct training session on accounting policies and procedure
- Leading special projects
About You
- Professional degree in Accounting or other advanced degree (such as a Masters in Finance or MBA)
- 5-8 years of relevant role experience in a large MNC environment
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles and best practice, computer software for accounting, financial statements preparation
- Ability to stay abreast of changes in accounting rule and regulations in APAC
- Change agent. Able to drive new initiatives, influencing the broader organization, and introducing new strategies and tactics effectively
Job Number: 1067
Community / Marketing Title: Senior Accounting Manager
Location_formattedLocationLong: Singapore, South East SG