Job purpose
- Own and lead end-to-end General Ledger (GL) function including closing, reconciliation, and financial reporting to ensure accuracy, integrity, and alignment with group accounting standards
- Drive GL strategy and transformation roadmap, including AI/automation adoption, to enhance efficiency, data quality, and business insight
- Act as functional owner of GL domain, providing accounting guidance, governance, and decision support to ensure compliance and support financial outcomes
Key responsibilities
- Own and oversee end-to-end General Ledger (GL) function, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and month-end/year-end closing processes, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and overall financial reporting outcomes of the GL domain in line with group standards and timelines. While defining and leading the adoption roadmap of AI and automation across GL processes (e.g., journal automation, anomaly detection, reconciliations)
- Be accountable for financial reporting governance within GL scope, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial statements in compliance with TFRS/IFRS and internal policies, and acting as final authority on accounting treatment and resolution of complex accounting issues
- Leverage data insights to drive business decision-making and financial transparency, reviewing and analyzing financial results, identifying variances, and providing actionable insights influencing financial and management decisions. Own delivery of financial analysis and reporting outputs for management and external stakeholders
- Own compliance and internal control outcomes, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and corporate governance standards, and establishing robust control frameworks across GL processes to safeguard financial integrity
- Act as the primary representative of the GL function, leading engagement with cross-functional teams, external auditors, and internal audit teams, ensuring alignment, decision-making clarity, and audit readiness. Represent GL in discussions with senior leadership (e.g., CFO) and relevant governance forums
- Define, standardize, and govern accounting processes across entities within the group, identifying process gaps and leading group-wide transformation initiatives to enhance consistency, efficiency, and risk management
- Provide functional leadership and direction to the GL team, leading, coaching, and developing team members to ensure high performance and capability building. Drive a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and innovation, while owning talent and capability strategy, particularly in digital and AI skillsets. Champion and lead digital transformation mindset within the function
Qualification and Experience
- Bachelor/ master's in accounting
- More than 10 years experience in accounting field
- CPA required
- Expertise in SAP
- AI capabilities
- Strong in accounting principles, GAAP, SEC requirement and IFRS
- Clear and effective communication with team
- Understands how GL activities and AI initiatives support broader finance and organizational goals.
- Encourages teamwork and a positive mindset, especially during tight deadlines and transformation initiatives.
- Shares knowledge and supports peers in developing accounting and digital/AI skills.
- Supports and adapts to process, system, and AI-driven changes to improve efficiency and control.
- Understands business drivers and reflects their impact in financial reporting and analysis.
- Analyzes data from multiple sources, including AI outputs, to identify issues and draw clear conclusions.
- Ensures high standards of accuracy, completeness, and compliance in all GL activities.
- Applies forward-looking thinking to improve processes, reporting, and use of AI in finance
- Supports financial results through accurate reporting, insightful analysis, and process efficiency.
- Applies accounting principles with a forward-looking perspective, considering business and regulatory impacts.
