Assistant Regional Controller

Your future company

For our client an American company dealing with oil, chemical, energy, fertilizers, foodstuffs, among others, we are looking for candidate for the position of Assistant Regional Controller.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in accounting or finance
• Proven experience in accounting and/or analytical role
• Experience in working with multiple legal entities under different legal umbrellas
• Experience with financial reporting requirements
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – the role will require regular interaction with the leadership team
• Fluent in English
• Strong level of Excel skills
• Motivation and strong initiative to act independently

Nice to have

• Previous experience on controller position would be considered advantage

Responsibilities

• Work cross functionally with multiple departments (operations, accounting etc.) to ensure the core monthly financial statements - B/S, P&L, CFS - are produced timely and materially correct.
• Track, analyze, and report budget and profitability variance to leadership. Partner with different teams to obtain a reliable understanding over monthly business activity and events, provide support to accounting team to accurately capture the activity into financials. Drive/support successful execution of complex corporate transactions and business changes (mergers, liquidations, loan repayments, dividends etc.).
• Partner with local compliance team to ensure an accurate local result is reported in the statutory financial statements (e.g., support during audit/review of FS mapping). Accountability on accurately and timely submissions status of local filings (FS/VAT/CIT).
• Continuously seek and drive transformative improvements to organization, accounting processes and system utilization for controlling activities (e.g., support on ERP implementation, overall process improvement and application of internal financial controls), ensure appropriate governance and follow-up on long-term open topics.

The offer

• Hybrid system of work
• Private medical care, sports card, life insurance
• Training and mentoring package
• Team building events
• Work in a Market Based Management environment where integrity and respect are promoted, independent employees with initiative are favored over micromanagement, knowledge is openly shared and employees are expected to be eager to learn