Senior Manager Accounting
Sr. Manager Accounting
Area: GCA Finance
Department: Finance
Direct Reporting Line: Sr. Director Corporate Finance
Indirect/secondary reporting line: N/A
Subsidiary/country: China
Location: Shanghai
GSMS Grade: M3
Number of Personnel Managed: N/A
Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility: N/A
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
Ensure finance/accounting compliance, safeguard financial statements and audit risk management, partner with business functions and GBS
Key Responsibilities:
Financial
- Oversee and responsible for overall China legal entities financial control in both IFRS and PRC GAAP, focusing on the biggest entity of aSports
- Ensure timeliness, integrity and quality of financial reporting including full compliance with local/group regulations leading to a clean Finance audit, through strict and structured control on BSR, closing process monitoring and TB controlling, focusing on the biggest entity of aSports
- Responsible for China internal/external audit (IFRS) and statutory audit (PRC GAAP).
- Be the advisor to business partners in business operation and decision from accounting perspective
- Responsible for assessing and minimizing the financial impact arising by tax regulatory/ accounting standard/Financial related process changes.
- Enhance and implement accounting and financial policies/processes/ regulatory policies
- Responsible for reporting to China government offices.
Management
- Being the focal from the market finance to lead GBS management/engagement, drive accounting excellence jointly through market finance and GBS.
- Coordinate and drive internal or x-functional project/problem solving to facilitate business operation and support decision making
- Bridge and manage among market stakeholders, GBS teams, group accounting, tax, IC&C and maintain a good relation.
- Manage audits or submissions to Government bodies (e.g. statutory audit, annual filing…etc)
Key Relationships:
- Internal: HR/Legal/Sales/ECOM/ Marketing/SCM/GBS/TAX/ IC&C/Group Accounting
- External: External auditors/ government offices such as Bureau of Finance/Statistical Bureau
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree or above
- 10+ years in finance area with solid accounting knowledge and experience, ideally in audit/ consulting firm or Retail/ Apparel industry.
- Good communication and influencing skills (ability to convey complex ideas to audiences)
- High sense of responsibility and integrity
- Fluent written and spoken English.
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