Senior Manager, Group Accounts

What You Will Do:

• Financial Consolidation Management: Oversee and manage group financial consolidations, ensuring accuracy and compliance in all statutory reporting and budgeting processes.
• Executive Reporting and Insights: Lead the preparation and review of monthly consolidated financial reporting for senior management and the Board, providing clear analysis of performance, risks, opportunities, and key business drivers.
• Global Finance Leadership: Partner with regional and local finance teams to ensure consistent execution of the Group’s finance agenda, strengthen reporting discipline, and promote alignment across jurisdictions and business units.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure that the Group’s statutory financial reports adhere to all relevant financial regulations and standards.
• Audit and Stakeholder Management: Lead key aspects of the Group’s external audit process, manage senior-level interactions with auditors and internal stakeholders, and ensure timely resolution of significant accounting, reporting, and control matters.
• Process Excellence and Controls: Drive finance process improvements, automation, standardisation and control enhancements across the Group, ensuring scalable and sustainable ways of working.
• Policy Development: Lead the review and update of the Group’s accounting policies and procedures to ensure they reflect current best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Finance Transformation: Lead or co-lead finance transformation and digitalisation initiatives, including ERP enhancements, reporting automation, dashboard development and other system-enabled improvements that strengthen finance capability and decision support.
• New Business Line Support: Support the establishment of new business lines, such as Environmental Compliance.
• Global Tax Planning: Play a key role in supporting global tax planning initiatives, transfer pricing requirements and cross-border structuring matters, working closely with internal stakeholders and external advisers to ensure alignment with the Group’s commercial objectives and compliance obligations.
• Financial Planning and Analysis: Co-lead to enhance the Group’s financial planning and analysis process, including budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, performance review and the preparation of actionable insights for senior management.
• Senior Business Partnering: Act as a trusted finance business partner to assigned executives and business units, providing commercial challenge, financial advice and decision support on strategic priorities, investments, performance improvement and operational initiatives

What We Are Looking For:

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; professional accounting qualifications are required.
• Experience: Substantial progressive finance experience, typically gained through a combination of Big 4, group finance, multinational corporate environments, FP&A, business partnering and/or finance transformation. We are looking for a strong finance professional who has operated in complex, fast-paced organisations and is ready to take on a broader Group Finance leadership role with exposure to senior management, Board reporting, strategic projects and global stakeholders.
• Commercial and Analytical Acumen: Strong analytical capability with the ability to interpret complex financial information, understand business drivers, identify commercial implications and provide clear, practical recommendations that support senior decision-making.
• Executive Communication and Influence: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence, maturity and business sense to engage senior executives, challenge constructively, and translate financial analysis into clear insight and action.
• People Leadership: Experience leading, coaching or developing finance team members, with the ability to set clear standards, manage priorities, build capability and deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines.
• Strategic Mindset: Curiosity and ambition to operate beyond traditional reporting and control, contributing to business planning, performance improvement, governance, transformation and strategic decision-making across a complex global organisation.
• Adaptability and Resilience: Comfortable working in a dynamic, international environment, with the resilience to manage tight deadlines, adapt to change, navigate ambiguity and maintain momentum across multiple priorities.
• Integrity and Professionalism: High level of integrity, professionalism and sound judgment in all interactions.
• Self-Motivation: Proactive, hands-on and self-motivated, with a strong sense of ownership, a continuous improvement mindset and a desire to create meaningful impact in the organisation.
• Language Proficiency: Fluent in English, with proficiency in Cantonese and/or Mandarin being an advantage.