About The Role

MISSION

Lead and oversee regional accounting and tax activities across Asia Pacific, ensuring accurate financial reporting, regulatory compliance, strong financial controls, and continuous process improvement to support business and Group reporting requirements.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Main responsibility is to ensure accurate and timely closure of multi-country financials, ensures cross-border regulatory and tax compliance for local and group reporting.  Key duties include regional financial & tax reporting, tax compliance and regulatory filings, audit and control coordination, maintaining high data quality and sounds financials.

Regional Financial Reporting

Lead & drive Group Reporting on monthly and quarterly basis, ensure timely completion and accuracy
Ensure group reporting follows Group Accounting Guidelines
Drive Balance Sheet review for full understanding on variance / movements
Lead and ensure correctness on multi-currency reporting and analysis
Ensure inter-company balance is fully reconciled

Tax Compliance and Reporting

Lead and support quarterly tax reporting and annual tax drift
Review and support for tax provisions, deferred taxes calculation, and maintain tax loss carried forward analysis
Support local finance for timely tax submissions and queries from local tax
Coordinate and support Transfer Pricing and Pillar II report, ensure timely and accurate submission

Auditing and Governance

Support local finance on statutory audit as and when needed
Assist in interpreting accounting standard / tax rules, ensure compliance with respective reporting as regulatory submission
Monitor and implement necessary internal financial controls to improve quality of financials
Assist in drafting regional accounting guidelines, achieve correct and consistent interpretation of rules across APR

Operational Excellence / Process Improvement / Finance Projects

Support finance improvement and transformation projects, process automations, and any relevant system implementations.
Assist in driving standard operating procedures across the region for closing process
On going improvement for standardization and simplification
Maintain / monitor on regional project cost capitalization calculation and recharge process, ensure compliance with group rule

Jurisdictions covered

Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Singapore
China
Korea
Malaysia
Philippines
Indonesia
India
Thailand
Vietnam

Functions working with

Local Finance & SSC Finance
BT / IT
Compliance / Risk Management
Operational Excellence / Process Management
Partnership team
Commercial (TCI / BI / DC)
CBO
Group Accounting & Tax
Group Treasury
Group GMC
Bachelor’s degree – major accounting, finance or a related discipline
Qualified Accountant from any recognized accounting institution / jurisdiction
10 years + relevant working experience
Strong knowledge of accounting & tax reporting across Asia
Tax qualification, audit background & Insurance industry experience is an asset
Knowledge of accounting tool, e.g. SAP, Sage, etc
Soft Skill: strong coordination and communication skills, proactiveness, self-initiative, work independent and under stress
Hybrid working model after the first month
Great place to work:  central and modern office 
Opportunities to learn:  budget every year for training, languages platform, e-learning platform, dedicated development program…
Career opportunities: Opportunity to build your career (both locally and internationally) in a large global company, one of the world leaders in its field
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