ERM is seeking for a Regional Management Accountant role to support our leadership teams across Asia Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand. In this role, you will be responsible for the management accounting for both ERM Asia and ERM Australia & New Zealand.To be successful in this role, the individual will need to be able to go beyond compiling data from various systems and provide analysis and insights to support timely decision-making.Duties & Responsibilities:Weekly Management Reports
Prepare weekly reports on a timely basis that support insight into operational performance
Provide insights and identify and explore areas for improvement
Monthly Management Reports
Prepare monthly reports tracking performance against budget, including commercial reporting, that is both accurate and timely
Explain financial trends, highlight variances, and suggest corrective actions.
Draft reporting packs for presentation to regional management and Group
Ad hoc reporting requirements
Prepare reports as requested by management to support business analysis and decision making
Month-End Accounting
Support month end accounting for the regional team with journal entries and reconciliations, to contribute to accurate month end close for the regional teams
Budget and Forecast Compilation & Trend Analysis
Support annual budgeting processes including reporting
Facilitate the quarterly reforecasting processes and other forecasts as required
Review the data provided by Business Units in budgeting and reporting to in the examine performance across business units and provide insights and analysis
Systems & Process Improvement
Use BI tools and automation to enhance efficiency and communication
Maintain integrity in all reporting, accounting and analysis
Act as a business partner in a complex structure
Work across geographies to support Regional RCEOs (Asia and ANZ), APAC Regional Finance Director, Asia Regional Commercial Director and APAC HR Director and others as is needed
Foresee and manage issues
Required Qualifications and Attributes:
Professional accounting qualification
Minimum 8 years of working experience, with at least 3 years of experience in a senior management accounting position with an MNC.
Fluent in English (written and spoken)
Advanced Excel skills and Power BI to analyze data
Good analytical skills, an inquiring mind, and the ability to think out of the box
Be able to interact with senior business managers and explain financial perspectives, clearly and meaningfully.
Be able to apply good business sense in determining management information requirements
Self-sufficient (as the role will be located remotely to the line manager) and proactive. Be keen to learn the business.
