Job Description

Assistant Manager, Record To Report

Position ID: req42374

Sector: BA APAC & MEA

Functional Area: Finance

Location: Petaling Jaya Office (COE APAC)

Number of Openings: 1

Reporting to: OPERATIONS MANAGER, RECORD TO REPORT

Employment Type: Permanent

Apply By: 20 APRIL 2023

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All about the role

• Centre of Excellence Record to Report (R2R) provides finance services ie Journal processing, Financial Group Reporting, Balance Sheet Account Reconciliations and Compliance Reporting. This position is responsible for leading a service oriented team and managing the R2R process to deliver timely and accurate financial reporting to the assigned countries across Asia Pacific (APAC)

What you\'ll do:

Operational activities

• Ensure the daily operational activities for R2R as whole are managed and delivered timely to the Location within the Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Operation activities consists of Journal processing, AARO reporting, Balance Sheet Account Reconciliation and Compliance reporting are managed and delivered timely to the Locations aligned with corporate deadlines.
• Leading a team and monitor team processing to ensure accuracy, timely execution and in compliance with accounting principles.
• First contact point for Locations for any escalation for all R2R operational activities by providing solution to location promptly to resolve the issues and making sure that services provide are meeting service levels and quality.
• Ensuring all team members are complying to the Desktop Task Procedure (DTP).
• Ensure all direct reports to attend any queries/requirement/recommendation from internal team/ Location/ Auditors on the operational activities in accordance to SLA &KPIs.
• Takes accountability for own and team performance by monitoring closely via Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) result and constantly provide solutions to improve the results.
• Lead operational meetings with team and ensure all required action items agreed with the internal team/ Locations / External Auditors within agreed deadline.
• Collaborate/Coordinate with the other stream to ensure that the integrated process carried out smoothly to provide constant and quality deliverables to locations.
• Report to Management promptly on the status of the operations and ensure prompt escalation to management if necessary.
• Ensuring that appropriate General Ledger processes, controls, policies and procedures are in place and comply with Electrolux standards.

People Supervision

• Monitor team members\' performance via performance management and ensure adherence to clear structured policies and processes for Authorizations, Escalation routes, Compliance and Tasks.
• Supervision of staff. This includes coaching the employee, motivate team and build the employee development/succession planning and discipline measures.
• Ensure the new and existing team members are trained through proper knowledge transfer; sharing of resource, knowledge and experience and best practice thereby ensuring quality is maintained through any staff transition.
• Demonstrate good leadership and work independently with minimum supervision from Process Manager
• Manage the staff resources include hiring and forward hiring process, staff job rotation, job allocation and develop robust backup plan.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and sustain effective relationships with locations and across streams to deliver quality performance and implement best practices.
• Engage the stakeholder to resolve any operational issues.

Process improvement

• Constantly review, signoff and maintain accurate and up to date DTPs and reference materials.
• Identify opportunities and implement process improvements, simplifications and standardization.
• Identify business needs and contribute solutions to business problems.

Others

• Any other duties as required that can generally be expected from Process Manager

Who You Are:

8 years working experience related working experience in General ledger month-end processes, statutory reporting and other finance areas. * Experience is supervising medium sized team.

• Shared Services experience is an advantage
• Strong technical, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good managerial skills with good communication skills (written and verbal).
• Able to perform in dynamic multi-cultural environment with an adaptive attitude.
• Strong adaptability skill and able to work efficiently under pressure with minimum supervision
• Guided by functional practices, management precedents, and professional standards.
• 6 Sigma or other equivalent accreditations. (optional)
• Passion to innovation, customer obsession, drive for results, communicative, team orientated, with analytical thinking, patient, paying attention to the details, organized, training skills, leadership skills, confidentiality, problem-solving skills, with the ability to motivate people, with the ability to plan and prioritize own work and other team members, taking ownership and responsibility of outstanding issues and queries; Transition experience and/or ERP implementation experience.
• Experience of working in a / within a multicultural, international environment.
• Available to travel / full time orientated.

Office/Systems Application Skills:

• Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point
• SAP
• AARO Reporting as added advantage

Where you\'ll be:

You will be based in our Petaling Jaya office and you will be part of a

Benefit highlights:

• Hybrid working arrangement.
• Discounts on Electrolux products and services.
• Medical & Hospitalization coverage for both employees and dependents.
• Dental & Optical.

As part of Electrolux, we will continuously invest in you and your development. There are no barriers to where your career could take you.

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