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 analyticsOrchestrate strong collaboration between various teams in finance community to achieve month end closing in good quality and timely mannerSupport Senior Financial Accounting and Reporting manager on new financial initiatives and changing business requirements.

Role Specifications:  Please explicitly describe the Functional and Business knowledge required for the role

Academic/Professional Qualifications

University degreeCPA/CA/ICAA or equivalent will be an advantage

Work Experience

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

Required Competencies

Embrace challenges to develop new skills and willingness to take on new responsibilitiesTeam player and work together with fellow team members toward a common goalBuild successful relationships across the organization through collaboration, consensus building and interpersonal effectiveness.Convey facts and information clearly and accuratelyRespond to stakeholder concerns promptly and in a professional mannerConduct assessments to address problems. Identify suspicious patterns in financial data and raises relevant issues and concerns with higher level managementDemonstrate ability to acquire new knowledge and skills to adapt to changeExperiment and redefine complex business issues through constant clarification of audience needs and questioningSeek new methods of working that could result in higher productivity even if the outcome is not guaranteed