Fssc Accounting Coe Assistant Manager

Background

LIXIL Corporation had implemented a financial shared service centre including the use of BPO (Business Process Outsource). By establishing a Financial Shared Service Centre hereinafter called FSSC, the company would like to achieve the following objectives:

To further enhance good corporate governance

To segregate the local finance department between business partnership function and financial accounting function.

To achieve better accountability of local subsidiaries accounting to HQ.

Roles and Responsibilities

This position has a key role to manage financial accounting activities in VN, AU and/or other APAC country and support other assignments from leaders:

- Routine RTR (GL), PTP (AP) and OTC (AR) process management, to ensure smooth daily operations.

- Align with APAC process owners or other country best practices to drive the process standardization and efficiency.

- To manage issues and communications between BPO and local finance team, to have a periodic meeting with Local finance leaders to detect/solve accounting related issues, include continual improvement and voice of customer

- To keep optimizing processes and service level agreement with BPO.

- To perform the 100% Balance sheet account review and reconciliations, and make sure there is no significant risk and exposures related with compliance and Internal control

- To ensure daily/closing activities and reporting packages to Japan HQ.

- To be responsible for all Internal, statutory external audits and JSOX, and make sure there is no significant findings and audit adjustments

- Bank authorizer for bank payments.

- To be the key contact person for local authorities, handle and support tax matters under Global tax function management

- To perform ad hoc tasks, continual improvement initiatives and project management.

- Support the SAP HANA implementation project

Working location: Gia Lam, Hanoi (have shuttle bus picking up employees from other areas of Hanoi)

Qualification and Experience: 

- Bachelor’s degree in accounting and professional accounting qualification.

- More than 5 years of background and history of demonstrating global business acumen with experience in working in a multinational, matrix driven organization.

- Big 4 audit experience or/and FSSC accounting R2R experience, with hands-on experience in designing SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) and BPO project implementation

- Knowledge of SAP systems

- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

- A hands-on experience for accounting management.

- Experience to work for IFRS and J-SOX and any kind of internal control system equivalent to J-SOX

Personal Attributes:

- Excellent communication and presentation skills, interpersonal skills

- Collaborative with peers and colleagues to drive involvement and engagement

- Attitude and aptitude to thrive in a fast-moving, demanding, dynamic environment, with the personal integrity to make positive change even when it challenges the status

- Requires travelling for regional meetings up to 10% of total work time