Manager - Financial Reporting & Control

Working closely with the cluster Finance Controller, this role will lead the delivery of all regular financial reporting and control activities for regional head office entities. The primary responsibilities include overseeing the production of timely and accurate month-end close, management reporting, annual financial statements, and ensuring compliance with various corporate requirements (including corporate tax, GST, transfer pricing, etc.).

Key Responsibilities:

Month-End Closing, Management Reporting & Annual Financial Statements:

• Month-End Closing:

  • Deliver accurate and reliable financial results during month-end, quarter-end, and annual reporting processes for regional entities.
  • Partner with the greater CCoE team and local finance operations team to ensure all month-end close tasks are properly performed.
  • Work with stakeholders to ensure appropriate cost accruals are posted at month-end and action plans are in place to clear the balance sheet, especially aged balances.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for various stakeholders regarding results and balances under regional entities.
  • Approve/ review or coordinate the completion of balance sheet reconciliations in Blackline, ensuring they are properly reconciled with appropriate supporting documents.
  • Provide guidance to the team on accounting or reporting issues, non-BAU items, or complex issues.
  • Support continual process gap identification and improvements in the quality and efficiency of financial reporting processes.
  • Ensure compliance with group financial policies and procedures.

• Management Reporting:

  • Report accurate and reliable financial results to the Group Reporting Tool (BPC/SAC).
  • Ensure financial results from local ERP are properly mapped and reported to BPC, maintaining clear reconciliation breakdowns monthly.
  • Assist or perform monthly flux analysis and ensure timely follow-up to resolve aged/open items.
  • Prepare the Account Reconciliation Matrix submission monthly.

• Annual Financial Statements:

  • Prepare annual financial statements with supporting working papers.
  • Act as the primary contact for external auditors to ensure the end-to-end external audit process is completed and filed within statutory and group deadlines.

Annual or Other Statutory/Tax Requirements:

• Annual Corporate Tax Filing:

  • Liaise with external tax advisors on corporate tax computation.
  • Ensure timely lodging of tax filings with IRAS.

• Quarterly GST Filing:

  • Prepare and submit quarterly GST returns accurately and on time.
  • Ensure GST is filed with IRAS timely.

Other Responsibilities:

• Support management fee requests from Group/Regional/markets and ensure information is provided and recharged properly.
• Prepare or compile budget RF NWC based on reasonable assumptions or reliable information, ensuring agreed RF and OB NWC and Net Cash numbers are reported to BPC within deadlines.
• Handle other ad hoc requests as needed.

Qualifications and Experiences:

• Significant experience in performing end-to-end monthly close, tax compliance, preparation of financial statements, external audit, and statutory filing processes.
• Prior experience working with offshore teams and in a larger corporate or multinational company environment is preferable (but not essential).
• Good knowledge of the application of Singapore FRS and IFRS.
• Demonstrable track record in identifying and resolving issues independently.
• Fluency in English.
• Internationally recognized finance/accounting qualification (i.e., CA/CPA) with 8 - 9 years of post qualification experience

Core Competencies:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, collaboration abilities, and the ability to quickly form working relationships and gain credibility from various stakeholders.
• A self-starter who can plan, organize, and take initiative to meet job objectives and deadlines independently.
• Ability to understand and challenge incoming information or requests.
• Ability to deep dive to understand the root cause of an issue and provide solutions or perform clean-up.
• Ability to work to challenging deadlines and deliver quality work in a demanding, fast-paced environment.
• Proactive in identifying and solving problems/issues and implementing solutions.