Job Description

Team Lead-RTR

Position ID: req43015

Sector: BA APAC & MEA

Functional Area: Finance

Location: Petaling Jaya Office (COE APAC)

Number of Openings: 1

Reporting to: ASSISTANT MANAGER, RECORD TO REPORT

Employment Type: Permanent

Apply By: 28 MAY 2023

Be part of something bigger. Decode the future.

At Electrolux, as a leading global appliance company, we strive every day to shape living for the better for our consumers, our people and our planet. We share ideas and collaborate so that together, we can develop solutions that deliver enjoyable and sustainable living. Come join us as you are. We believe diverse perspectives make us stronger and more innovative. In our global community of people from 100+ countries, we listen to each other, actively contribute and grow together.
Join us in our exciting quest to build the future home.

All about the role

• Providing leadership to a given Record to Report team;
• Ensuring that appropriate General Ledger processes, controls, policies and procedures are in place and comply with Electrolux standards;
• Ensuring that performance targets are met;
• Driving process improvement initiatives;
• Being a first point of contact for local GSSO Managers served;

What you\'ll do:

• Leading a team that is responsible for one or more of the following GL processes:

-Asset Accounting

-Inventory Accounting

-Tax Accounting

-Treasury and Cash management

-Period End Closing

-Reporting

-Audit Management

• Participating in the establishment of the SLA for the RTR area with the countries, in line with overall GSSC SLA\'s;
• Monitoring and managing performance in the processes, ensuring that SLA\'s and business objectives are met and that team resources are allocated effectively;
• A successful migration of the RTR work from countries to GSSC through adequate leadership in process documentation, work shadowing and training of a team members;
• Implementing methods and control tools to ensure stable and high quality in the provided service;
• Resolution of delivery problems and dealing with complex client questions that your team members can not resolve themselves;
• Timely and properly escalating to GSSC Process Manager and/or local GSSO Manager problems that reach beyond the scope of the migrated GL activities for the country;
• Reporting to GSSC Process Manager and, when appropriate, to relevant local GSSO Manager, any deviations from agreed standards (delays, use of wrong templates, missing input);
• Contributing to periodic meetings with other Team Leaders;
• Providing visible leadership to RTR team;
• Monitoring, coaching and supporting your team members to meet operational plans, development opportunities and career goals;
• Participating in recruitment processes of new team members;
• Managing team conflicts so that problems are resolved constructively;
• Spotting and resolving recurring performance problems and improvement opportunities;
• Preparing meeting agendas;
• Facilitating team meetings using appropriate brainstorming, problem solving, decision making, and project planning techniques;
• Managing meetings according to the team\'s agreed upon guidelines;
• Delegating team tasks as needed (e.g. recording, gathering information, etc.);
• Facilitating ongoing self-evaluation of the team\'s effectiveness;
• Providing methods to avoid repetitive mistakes within the team;
• Ensuring that needs of the business are understood within the team;
• Actively aligning and improving processes in order to deliver quality, productivity and transparency improvements;
• Maintain good working relationships with local GSSO managers through open communication on a regular basis and ad hoc as required;
• Follow up queries;
• Maintaining process maps and desktop procedures;

Additional responsibilities outside of standard job responsibilities:

• Participating in knowledge transfer and process documentation to secure a safe transfer of work from Finance departments abroad to the GSSC;
• Actively support in the execution of listed RTR processes if required;
• Sharing knowledge and lessons learnt with all team leaders within own country group and within the GSSC;
• Actively undertaking activities to increase your own competency portfolio in order to ensure continued effective service delivery within the SSC;

Who You Are:

• Candidates must possess at least a Bachelor\'s Degree in Business Studies/ Administration. Management/ Economic/ Finance/Accounting/ Banking/Commerce or equivalent; relevant professional qualification (ACMA, ACA, CPA);
• MS Office, JDE, SAP (or other ERP system) knowledge;
• Minimum 4 years\' experience in post qualification accounting and finance,1 to 2 years\' experience in a middle management role, including staff management, experienced with Shared Service Centre environment, people & change management as well as working in a multicultural, international environment , understanding of relevant regional accounting practices and the regulatory environment;
• Passion to innovation, customer obsession, drive for results, communicative, team orientated, with analytical thinking, patient, paying attention to the details, organised, 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;

Where you\'ll be:

• You will be based in our Petaling Jaya office and you will be part of our Record to Report Team

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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