Description
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Work Arrangement: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office three times per week or other frequency dictated by the business.
The Role
This role has the responsibility to lead the Statutory Center of Excellence (CoE) based in Global Business Solutions-Manila (GBS-Manila). The Stat COE team's responsibilities include but not limited to managing local accounting and statutory reporting activities, overseeing external audit, and preparing financial statements and disclosures based on applicable local accounting standards.
What You'll Do
- Manage, oversee, and coordinate interim and year-end audit plan; Maintain a comprehensive system for recording work papers, financial statements, and other related reports.
- Review Statutory Journal Entries, Local Account Reconciliations, Working Papers, and Statutory Financial Statements and Disclosures
- Respond to ad hoc requests as needed
- Adept in managing and engaging a large, diverse group of professionals; ensuring a workplace of choice with growth opportunity for their personnel.
- Develop appropriate employee goal setting/CAP and development linked to overall GM GBS objectives
- Provide guidance and expertise to professional staff, including but not limited to, Accounting Standards, and assistance with regulatory compliance
- Driving force behind strengthening working relationships with Controllership stakeholders. Serve as liaison on key engagements undertaken by the business, especially for Controllership stakeholders
- Focus on customer service and satisfaction, including developing/ monitoring/ publishing a holistic SLA/KPI performance dashboard and engaging key stakeholders in performance dialogues
- Maintain relationships with other engagement teams (External Audit Team - E&Y, Corporate, GBS/GM Controllership) and monitor teams' progress against plan and drive performance as required.
- Oversees his/her process team in daily operations of in-scope business processes, ensuring that statutory journals, working papers, financial statements and analysis, are executed timely and accurately . Compliance with Local GAAP, internal control requirements, and GM accounting policies is essential.
- Lead development and implementation of best practice processes to achieve operational excellence and compliance with required accounting standards/ GM policies
- Lead the team to execute continuous improvements and continually raise the service level provided to our internal business customers.
- Drive automation & digitization in a professional services environment including: innovating through new and existing technologies, along with experimenting with digitization solutions; working with large, complex data sets to build models and leverage data visualization tools; and, utilizing digitization tools to gain efficiency.
- Support and execute projects covering Statutory record to report activities
Additional Description
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
- Certified Public Accountant
- 6+ years of financial statement audit experience at a public accounting firm and/or end-to-end statutory financial statements experience (from audit planning with external auditors until signing of financials) at a private firm
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States (U.S. GAAP), emphasizing an in-depth, extensive understanding of the applicable business and accounting issues, and technical accounting and financial reporting standards. - Additionally, continue to attend training on these topics to remain adequately informed and knowledgeable
- Minimum of 3 years supervisory or project management experience
- Experience in Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Accounting software is a plus
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Displays on-going commitment to personal and professional development in leading technologies and business acumen
- Advanced Leadership Skills - able to manage and groom high performing talents
- Advanced Communication Skills - fluent in English, effective and impactful verbal and written communication;
- Champion for Change Management and Increased Quality
- Drive for Excellence and Organizational Results via Active Business Partnership
- Highly analytical and problem solver
- Flexibility in work hours to accommodate other countries/time zones
Note: day shift except during 1st quarter
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