Assistant Financial Accounting & Reporting Manager

Key Responsibilities: Reporting to Senior Financial Accounting and Reporting 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. • 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 Financial Accounting and Reporting 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 • Team player and work together with fellow team members toward a common goal • Build successful relationships across the organization through collaboration, consensus building and interpersonal effectiveness. • 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