Senior Accountant, APR Finance

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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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