GroupM APAC | Regional Senior Finance Manager

Overview of job

GroupM is the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Regional Senior Financial Manager to join us.

Reporting of the role
This role reports to: Regional Financial Controller
 

What you’ll bring:

• Prepare for the consolidated financial reporting include flash, actual, forecast, budget of the region
• Review and oversees the financial reports, aging items and account reconciliation of each country and local regional book.  Prepare variance analysis and commentary report timely. Highlight risk to management. 
• Prepare and review the inter-unit balances and transactions reconciliation and follow through.  Work closely with regional and country finance to update progress and aim to clear the mismatched items.
• Communicate the Global and Regional reporting requirements to the Country finance, provide guidance, training, report templates and procedures. 
• Coordinate with Shared service accounting team and supervise the Intercompany Invoicing, Accounts receivables, Accounts payable functions and master data maintenance, for a correct accounting and reporting timely for the regional book.
• Be responsible for daily finance operations of Regional unit and prepare periodic detail financial and accounting reports.
• Support the preparation of budget and forecast for Regional unit
• Prepare and review SOX reporting, ensure compliance to SOX and internal controls for for both APAC and regional unit
• Lead annual and tax audits.  Work closely with the auditors (external/ internal/ SOX), tax consultants and statutory bodies.
• Support ad hoc tasks and projects.

Minimum qualifications:

• Qualified Accountant with Degree in Accounting/Finance or related discipline.

• Minimum 8 years of accounting and finance experience with preferably multinational companies and companies with multiple legal entities and reporting units.  Must have both audit and commercial experience.
• Strong financial and management reporting experience is a must.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good interpersonal & communication skills with ability and confidence to work with all levels.  
• Independent, attentive to details, organized and proactive.  Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines in a fast pace environment.
• Fluency in both Mandarin, Cantonese and English
• Knowledge in scaled and systematic accounting system is preferred
• High proficient in MS office (Excel and macros).  Experience in Hyperion, SAP or similar consolidation and reporting applications is a definite advantage.

More about GroupM

GroupM is the leading global media investment management group serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence and m/SIX, as well as the programmatic digital media platform, Xaxis, each global operations in their own right with leading market positions. GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize the performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, and proprietary tool development. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivaled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people, and is increasingly working closely for the benefit of clients with WPP’s data investment management group, Kantar. Together, GroupM and Kantar account for over 50% of WPP’s group revenues of more than $20 billion.

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