Senior Director, Assistant Regional Controller, APAC & China

Job description and responsibilities:

1. Work closely with the Corporate, Regional and Country Controllership team to ensure that all US and Regional reporting deadlines are met in an accurately, timely and efficient manner
2. Ensure that Finance teams of in scope market maintain high integrity of financial books and records
3. Ensure that Finance teams of in scope market maintain meets all statutory reporting and that the statutory to US GAAP reconciliations are completed timely and accurately
4. Work closely with the Finance and Management team to ensure that entities complies with corporate finance policies, sound internal control procedures are in place, SOX testing is conducted on a regular basis and that any SOX or Internal Audit deficiencies are remediated in a timely and efficient manner.
5. Provide leadership, motivation and guidance to the Regional Finance Team to ensure that Finance staffs to build the professional team with good career path and create business value to the company
6. Rollout projects for process improvement and take up assigned projects by Corporate or Region
7. Liaise with external stakeholders, eg. Bankers, audit firms, tax authorities etc.
8. Travel is expected

Job requirements:

Skills/Education/Experience:

• Solid experience in SOX and USGAAP Compliance
• Solid experience in Regional Finance
• People management experience for high skilled professional
• Broad and deep understanding for process of financial reporting, business processes, internal controls and finance related technologies.
• Good understanding of Tax and Treasury particularly in cash management
• Solid experience of large scale ERP system (eg. SAP / ORACLE) and consolidation system
• Fluent in both written and spoken English and Mandarin
• Additional exposures preferred
• Shared Service Center experience
• Business processes standardization

Experience:

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in corporate/public accounting
• Minimum 3 years working experience in International Audit Firm
• 5+ years working with a US based Multi-national company
• Good career progression

Education:

• Master/Bachelor degree equivalent
• Chartered accountant/ CPA

Management Skill:

• Good communication, presentation, business acumen, negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Proactive and strong commitment and ownership
• Ability to solve practical problems and carry out responsibilities under independently
• Ability to organize workload for effective implementation by good time management and prioritization
• Strong customer and results orientation
• Ability to interact effectively at all levels with sensitivity to cultural diversity
• Foster team work

Ability to adapt as the external environment and organization evolves