The Senior Manager - Finance Excellence & Accounting Standards is responsible for driving finance process excellence, accounting standardization, and operational governance across the wholesale business. This role ensures that finance and accounting processes are consistent, scalable, controlled, and efficient, enabling the Group to support business growth, improve productivity, and strengthen financial discipline.
Finance Process Excellence & Standardization
- Lead the design, standardization, and continuous improvement of key finance and accounting processes across Group, Business Units, stores, and corporate functions.
- Drive process improvement initiatives across month-end closing, account reconciliation, approval workflow, transaction control, reporting workflow, and finance service delivery.
- Establish common finance operating standards, SOPs, RACI, process maps, and control points to ensure consistent execution across the wholesale business.
- Identify process gaps, duplicated activities, manual work, and operational bottlenecks, and translate them into practical improvement actions.
- Partner with Finance Operations, Accounting, Shared Service, Business Units, IT/Data, and Internal Control teams to embed process excellence into daily operations.
Accounting Standards, Policy & Governance
- Own the development, harmonization, and governance of accounting standards, finance policies, and accounting treatment guidelines across the Group.
- Ensure finance and accounting practices are aligned with regulatory requirements, accounting standards, internal policies, and business needs.
- Provide guidance to Business Units and finance teams on accounting standards, finance policy interpretation, and process compliance.
- Support the implementation of standard chart of accounts, cost center governance, account ownership, and finance master data discipline.
- Monitor compliance with accounting policies and drive corrective actions where inconsistencies or control gaps are identified.
Closing, Reconciliation & Finance Control Improvement
- Drive improvement of month-end and year-end closing processes to enhance speed, accuracy, transparency, and accountability.
- Lead initiatives to improve balance sheet reconciliation, account ownership, transaction validation, and exception resolution.
- Develop closing calendars, reconciliation standards, checklist controls, and issue escalation mechanisms.
- Work with Finance Controller and Reporting teams to ensure financial data is complete, accurate, and ready for management reporting.
- Reduce recurring closing issues and improve root-cause resolution across finance and accounting processes.
Finance Transformation & Automation Enablement
- Support finance transformation initiatives by defining process requirements, standard rules, and control needs for system, workflow, automation, and dashboard enhancement.
- Identify opportunities for automation in accounting operations, reconciliation, approval, reporting preparation, and control monitoring.
- Collaborate with Finance Transformation, IT/Data, ERP, EPM, and BI teams to ensure finance process design is embedded into system solutions.
- Ensure new digital finance solutions are practical, controlled, scalable, and aligned with finance operating standards.
- Drive user adoption and change management for new finance processes, policies, and tools.
Stakeholder Management & Team Development
- Act as a key finance excellence partner to Finance, Accounting, Business Units, Operations, Shared Service, Internal Audit, Risk, and Compliance teams.
- Facilitate cross-functional workshops to align process ownership, pain points, improvement priorities, and execution plans.
- Provide coaching to finance team members on process excellence, accounting standards, finance governance, and continuous improvement.
- Track progress, benefits, and risks of finance excellence initiatives and report key updates to the Director - Group Finance Excellence & Corporate Finance.
- Build a culture of standardization, ownership, control discipline, and continuous improvement across the finance organization.
Qualification:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related fields; CPA, CPD, or relevant professional certification is preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in accounting, finance operations, finance excellence, audit, internal control, shared service, or finance transformation.
- Strong experience in wholesale, retail, consumer goods, distribution, or large-scale operational business is highly preferred.
- Solid knowledge of accounting standards, finance policies, internal control, month-end closing, reconciliation, and finance process governance.
- Proven track record in leading finance process improvement, policy standardization, accounting excellence, or finance transformation projects.
- Strong ability to translate accounting and finance requirements into practical process design, SOPs, control frameworks, and system requirements.
- Good understanding of ERP, finance workflow, reconciliation tools, BI dashboards, and automation opportunities.
- Strong stakeholder management, problem-solving, project management, communication, and change management skills.
- Detail-oriented with strong governance mindset, analytical thinking, accountability, and ability to drive execution across functions.
- Fluent in Thai and English, with strong business writing and presentation skills.
