- Own monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes across APAC entities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting under US GAAP, IFRS, local statutory, SOX, and regulatory requirements.
- Review and approve accounting entries, reconciliations, disclosures, and reporting deliverables to support group consolidation and external reporting requirements.
- Oversee statutory financial statements, local filing obligations, and legal entity compliance calendars across APAC jurisdictions.
- Maintain an effective internal control environment, including control design, operating effectiveness, SOX compliance, remediation activities, financial risk monitoring, and escalation protocols.
- Lead statutory audits, SOX controls activities, internal audit remediation, external auditor coordination, audit issue resolution, corrective actions, and audit documentation retention.
- Partner with Tax and Treasury teams on transfer pricing implementation, permanent establishment risk monitoring, intercompany arrangements, cash repatriation structures, foreign currency matters, and Pillar Two data and reporting requirements, while owning controllership aspects rather than technical tax policy decisions
- Provide regional payroll strategy and leadership, including operating model design, payroll standardization, payroll transformation, country payroll oversight, service provider governance, payroll controls, compliance monitoring, and audit support.
- Oversee accurate and timely payroll processing across the region, including recurring payroll cycles, off-cycle payments, bonuses, commissions, equity compensation payroll reporting, final payments, terminations, SLAs, KPIs, payroll continuity, and business resilience.
- Ensure payroll compliance with local labor laws, RBA requirements, tax regulations, social security requirements, pension and statutory contribution obligations, actuarial valuations, SAFE compliance, sell-to-cover processes, and applicable data privacy regulations including GDPR, PDPA, and PIPL.
- Steward working capital and balance sheet integrity across receivables, payables, inventory, fixed assets, intercompany balances, account reconciliations, and balance sheet reviews.
- Interpret accounting standards and corporate policy, govern accounting treatment for significant transactions, review complex contracts and business arrangements, and ensure consistent application of accounting policies across APAC.
- Simplify and standardize finance processes, driving ERP, SAP, automation, AI, and digital transformation initiatives to improve efficiency, strengthen controls, reduce manual work, and improve data quality.
- Partner cross-functionally with Tax, Treasury, Legal, Operations, Supply Chain, Shared Services, Corporate Accounting, HR, and Global Security to support appropriate transaction structuring and execution from a controllership perspective.
- Oversee legal entity governance throughout the entity lifecycle, including formation, restructuring, mergers, liquidations, legal entity records, and audit readiness.
- Lead the regional controllership organization, build technical accounting and compliance capabilities, develop succession plans, strengthen organizational resilience, and promote accountability, integrity, and continuous improvement.