Assistant Accounting Manager

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.

As the Assistant Accounting Manager is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the company's financial records and reporting, in full compliance with applicable accounting standards and regulations. The role also oversees the effective execution of core finance operations, including Tax compliance with IFRS 16 lease accounting preparations B/S monitoring ; ESG reporting ; Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and other related processes, to support the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the finance function.

This position plays a key role in safeguarding the integrity of our brand by ensuring robust financial reporting, driving accuracy in finance operations, and mitigating financial risks to the House.

Key Responsibilities:
Reporting to Senior Finance 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.

In collaboration with the regional tax team, oversee the monitoring, preparation, and submission of local tax filings, including VAT, WHT (with application of Article 25 reduced WHT rate), stamp duty, and CIT. Technical knowledge of these tax regulations is an advantage.

• Oversee the execution of finance operations to ensure KPIs and service quality standards are met, while managing internal and external queries and resolving escalated cases.
• Coordinate communication and foster collaboration between local stakeholders and offsite hub operations.
• Perform necessary ad-hoc tasks of low volume. For example, treasury operations, credit card terminals management, customer deposits, and monitoring of customer credit limits.
• 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 analytics
• Orchestrate strong collaboration between various teams in finance community to achieve month end closing in good quality and timely manner
• Support Senior Finance 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 degree
• CPA/CA/ICAA or equivalent will be an advantage

Work Experience

• Minimum 5 years working experience, inclusive of 2 years of managerial experience
• Big 4 audit experience is an advantage
• Worked in Shared Service Center is an advantage
• Solid expertise / operational know-how of all finance processes (AP, AR, GL, inventory accounting, etc) and understanding of market specificities
• Fluent 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 responsibilities
• Demonstrates resilience and steadiness in high-pressure or uncertain environments
• Team player and work together with fellow team members toward a common goal
• Effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills, capable of fostering collaboration and aligning efforts across stakeholders from diverse functions, backgrounds, and perspectives
• Relentless focus to optimize operations while ensuring KPIs and service standards are met
• Convey facts and information clearly and accurately
• Respond to stakeholder concerns promptly and in a professional manner

Conduct assessments to address problems. Identify suspicious patterns in financial data and raises relevant issues and concerns with higher level management

• Demonstrate ability to acquire new knowledge and skills to adapt to change
• Experiment and redefine complex business issues through constant clarification of audience needs and questioning
• Seek new methods of working that could result in higher productivity even if the outcome is not guaranteed.