GL Accountant, Team Lead (Mandarin Speaker)

About our client

Our Client is a world-class provider of global business services, dedicated to meeting the technological, market and business challenges faced by our customers worldwide. They are looking for a Team Lead for their GL Accounting team.

About the role

The incumbent is responsible for an accountant with a strong reporting background and are able to provide commentaries for financial statements

Your responsibilities

• Manage and ensure quality in terms of accurate, completeness and timeliness of the Cost & Controlling team in performing their daily activities for the following Cost & Controlling processes.

  • Performing cost reconciliation through the preparation of costing reports and analysis on cost differences.

  • Posting the necessary adjustment into SAP.

• Maintenance of cost allocation rules including the creation of new rules or updates as requested by Business group.

• Manage and ensure quality in terms of accurate, completeness and timeliness of the Management Reporting team in performing their daily activities for the following Management Reporting processes.

  • Review Monthly/ quarterly/ year-end/ Business Group financial reports including reports for group reporting, internal management reporting, statutory reporting, Corporate Management reporting, as prepared by the analysts/ senior analysts.

  • Train and manage a team of analysts/ senior analysts, to meet the financial reporting requirements.

  • Ensure that deadlines for reporting are met consistently.

  • Prepare reports, where necessary.

• Provide support to team members in resolving management reporting questions.

• Liaise with the Corporate and Business Groups exceptional/ complicated financial reporting issues.

• Respond to compliance audits and audit queries.

You will have

• At least 6 years in financial reporting, analysis and performing closing activities, statutory commentary and the ability to identify / comment on the variances of the financial statement.

• Supervisory skills.

• Familiar with SAP.

• Able to converse fluently in English and Mandarin.