Financial Controller ASPAC

Glanbia Performance Nutrition

Financial Controller ASPAC

Location: Singapore or Australia

Job Purpose:  

The role is a key member of the Accounting & Control Team, responsible for the production of accurate and financial management accounts for all of the ASPAC legal entities. This role acts as a liaison between the ASPAC Finance & Commercial teams and requires someone with strong communication, leadership and managerial skills. Candidates for this role need to be self-motivated and highly organized. 

Principal Accountabilities (not definitive)

• Preparation and Reviewer of Monthly Consolidated P&Ls and Balance Sheet for internal commercial reporting purposes and for Group consolidation.
• Maintenance of financial ledgers and accounting processes, including responsibility for balance sheet integrity.
• Managing the close of the accounting and financial reporting of the Performance Nutrition segment across ASPAC with the accounting team that supports the region.
• Project managing key business processes throughout the year including forecasting, budgeting, month end and year end cycles from an accounting and controlling standpoint.
• Coordinating and managing key stakeholders and contributors both internally and externally as part of the GPN International divisional Group and Statutory audits.
• Cash management and treasury duties, liaison with the Group Treasury function.
• Ensuring that commercial and statutory financial reports are completed on time and being continuously developed to meet the changing demands of the business.
• Promote and maintain a rigorous control environment with appropriate level of documentation and controls compliance testing. Identify areas for control improvement and working with business partners to implement change to improve the control environment.
• Ensuring compliance with all accounting, tax, and legal requirements across the countries in the region.
• Assisting the Financial Controller International on the on-going development of the finance function in ASPAC and its support of the commercial operations.
• Implementation of financial control into acquisitions

Key Challenges & Success Measures

• Leading, managing, and partnering finance teams in multiple locations.
• Ensuring that processes, systems, and controls are operating effectively across a rapidly expanding business and are implemented into new acquisitions.
• Managing tax and legal compliance across multiple jurisdictions in conjunction with group tax and legal departments and external advisors.
• Continually developing the financial reporting of the commercial business to ensure that it is providing relevant and insightful information that drives decision making.
• Managing projects which require cross-functional and group participation in project teams.

Skills, Know How and experience

• Minimum 5+ years PQE experience in a senior role and multinational environment or fast moving and dynamic business.
• Proven ability to coach and develop a team of high performing talent.
• Proven track record of managing cross functional projects to tight deadlines.
• Proven experience operating in a Financial Control team – Large MNC preferably.
• In depth knowledge of accounting and financial principles as well as technical accounting skills.
• Results driven, must be able to engage with multiple stakeholders in particular working directly within/across international markets and within an FMCG environment.
• Experience in managing, motivating, and influencing in an environment of rapidly changing workload, tight deadlines, in the context of high client expectations and tight time frames. Ability to influence.
• A self-starter who has the ability to work well within a team and across geographical boundaries.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical, good judgement making and logical decision maker.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator.
• Proven track record of stakeholder management.
• Proven ability of dealing with ambiguity.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.