Job Description

At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what's possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world's most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.
Reimagine What's Possible
About the role

• Ensure compliance of capital deployment, mergers, acquisition and divestiture transactions as well as all non-routine and significant transactions across Asia with US GAAP and APCI Finance Standards by evaluating accounting treatments and preparing comprehensive accounting documentation.
• Support successful capital deployment, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures in Asia by conducting or supporting due diligence, evaluating financial impacts, and identifying risks in collaboration with cross-function teams.
• Facilitate effective business negotiations and transaction agreements by reviewing agreements and providing accounting perspectives to support decision-making.
• Achieve accurate and timely integration of new entities and recording of non-routine and significant transactions by developing accounting integration or divestiture plan, prepare US GAAP opening balance sheet, coordinating cross-functional efforts, and ensuring seamless accounting handover on closing dates.
• Maintain effective communication with headquarter management and Technical Accounting teams by providing timely updates on key project milestones and ensuring alignment on complex deal accounting treatments.
• Prepare functional currency determination for new legal entities
• Support in US GAAP new accounting standard Implementation
• Support in update and establishment of Air Products Finance Standards
• Support ad-hoc requests

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance and a professional accounting qualification (CPA/ACCA or equivalent).
• At least 8 years of technical accounting experience in a public accounting firm; merger & acquisition accounting experience is an advantage.
• Thorough understanding of accounting principles and practices; US GAAP knowledge is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills, enabling effective information flow across and ability to articulate complex issues across all organizational levels.
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills.
• Capable of making timely decisions under pressure in dynamic environment and generating, improving, and maintaining quality processes and documentation.
• Drives and adapts to change for better results
• Language - English and Chinese

We are the world's largest hydrogen producer with over 80 years of industrial gas experience. We are hydrogen and industrial gas experts delivering safe, end-to-end solutions, investing in real, clean energy projects at scale, and driving the industry forward to generate a cleaner future.
At Air Products, we work in an environment where we put safety first, diversity is essential, inclusion is our culture, and each person knows they belong and matter. To learn more, visit About Air Products.

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