Senior Accountant/ Assistant Manager
Description
Key Responsibilities
Financial Reporting & Day-to-Day Finance Management
- Own end-to-end finance operations for several legal entities across multiple jurisdictions, including month-end and year-end closing processes.
- Oversee bank, asset, intercompany, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, provisions, invoices, payment requests, and other accounting records.
- Ensure complete, accurate, and timely accounting for all responsible entities, including oversight of local accounting and tax vendors where applicable.
- Prepare and review financial statements and management reports in accordance with applicable accounting standards and group policies.
- Support the continuous improvement of accounting systems, financial reporting processes, and closing procedures.
- Ensure timely completion of regulatory, statutory, tax, and compliance-related filings in partnership with internal teams and external advisors.
- Manage day-to-day relationships with banks, vendors, accounting service providers, tax advisors, auditors, and other external stakeholders.
- Partner closely with Treasury, Tax, Global Accounting, Legal, Compliance, and business teams to ensure smooth financial operations.
Internal Controls & Governance
- Develop, document, and maintain business processes, accounting policies, and internal control procedures to support a strong control environment.
- Ensure compliance with group accounting policies, delegated authority frameworks, and internal control requirements.
- Maintain accurate, complete, and well-documented financial records to support internal reviews, audits, and regulatory inquiries.
- Identify control gaps, operational risks, and process weaknesses, and drive timely remediation.
- Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, and financial discipline across the region.
Audit Coordination
- Lead and coordinate external audits for responsible entities, ensuring timely completion and high-quality audit deliverables.
- Act as the key point of contact for auditors, local finance teams, external accounting partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Prepare and review audit schedules, supporting documentation, financial statements, and management representation materials.
- Address audit findings, resolve open issues, and implement corrective actions where needed.
- Support statutory audits, group audits, tax audits, and other regulatory reviews as required.
Business Partnership & Strategic Analysis
- Act as a trusted finance partner to regional and vertical management teams, providing clear, data-driven, and commercially relevant insights.
- Build financial models, scenario analyses, and business cases to support strategic decision-making.
- Translate financial results and trends into practical recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Support new market, product, and operational initiatives by assessing financial implications, risks, controls, and reporting requirements.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure Finance is embedded early in business planning and execution.
Process Improvement & Automation
- Drive continuous improvement in accounting, reporting, forecasting, and finance operations processes.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual work, streamline workflows, improve data quality, and enhance reporting efficiency.
- Implement best practices in financial reporting, closing processes, reconciliations, and controls.
- Partner with systems, data, and finance transformation teams to enhance enterprise-level finance tools and reporting capabilities.
- Support scalable finance infrastructure as the business grows across the region.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline. CPA, CMA, ACCA, CA, MBA, or Master’s degree preferred.
- 8+ years of relevant finance experience, including financial accounting, financial planning and analysis, audit, or finance business partnering.
- Prior experience as a Senior Accountant, Assistant Manager, or Finance Manager within a multinational, listed company, technology, fintech, financial services, or high-growth environment preferred.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting, statutory reporting, tax filings, general ledger operations, and month-end/year-end closing processes.
- Experience managing financial operations across multiple jurisdictions is strongly preferred.
- Experience with high-volume reconciliations in a regulated financial services or fintech environment.
- Strong understanding of internal controls, audit processes, accounting policies, and financial governance frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise-level ERP, accounting, consolidation, and financial planning systems.
- Excellent financial modelling, analytical, problem-solving, and business partnering skills.
- Highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to operate independently with limited supervision.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and evolving environment.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet tight deadlines, and bring structure to complex situations.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills.
- Proficient in both English and Chinese (written and spoken),with strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with Chinese speaking internal and external stakeholders across functions.
- Demonstrated interest in digital assets, blockchain technology, or fintech, is an advantage.