APAC Financial Controller

About our group:

The APAC Controllership group is responsible for maintaining the integrity of financial reporting, statutory compliance, internal controls, audit readiness, legal entity governance, and controllership oversight across APAC entities. The group partners closely with Tax, Treasury, Legal, Operations, Supply Chain, Shared Services, Corporate Accounting, HR, and Global Security to ensure transactions are structured, recorded, governed, and reported appropriately from a controllership perspective.

The team plays a key role in safeguarding the accuracy of financial information, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, maintaining an effective control environment, supporting audit and regulatory requirements, and driving continuous improvement across finance processes and organizational capability.

About the role - you will:

• Own monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes across APAC entities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting under US GAAP, IFRS, local statutory, SOX, and regulatory requirements.
• Review and approve accounting entries, reconciliations, disclosures, and reporting deliverables to support group consolidation and external reporting requirements.
• Oversee statutory financial statements, local filing obligations, and legal entity compliance calendars across APAC jurisdictions.
• Maintain an effective internal control environment, including control design, operating effectiveness, SOX compliance, remediation activities, financial risk monitoring, and escalation protocols.
• Lead statutory audits, SOX controls activities, internal audit remediation, external auditor coordination, audit issue resolution, corrective actions, and audit documentation retention.
• Partner with Tax and Treasury teams on transfer pricing implementation, permanent establishment risk monitoring, intercompany arrangements, cash repatriation structures, foreign currency matters, and Pillar Two data and reporting requirements, while owning controllership aspects rather than technical tax policy decisions
• Provide regional payroll strategy and leadership, including operating model design, payroll standardization, payroll transformation, country payroll oversight, service provider governance, payroll controls, compliance monitoring, and audit support.
• Oversee accurate and timely payroll processing across the region, including recurring payroll cycles, off-cycle payments, bonuses, commissions, equity compensation payroll reporting, final payments, terminations, SLAs, KPIs, payroll continuity, and business resilience.
• Ensure payroll compliance with local labor laws, RBA requirements, tax regulations, social security requirements, pension and statutory contribution obligations, actuarial valuations, SAFE compliance, sell-to-cover processes, and applicable data privacy regulations including GDPR, PDPA, and PIPL.
• Steward working capital and balance sheet integrity across receivables, payables, inventory, fixed assets, intercompany balances, account reconciliations, and balance sheet reviews.
• Interpret accounting standards and corporate policy, govern accounting treatment for significant transactions, review complex contracts and business arrangements, and ensure consistent application of accounting policies across APAC.
• Simplify and standardize finance processes, driving ERP, SAP, automation, AI, and digital transformation initiatives to improve efficiency, strengthen controls, reduce manual work, and improve data quality.
• Partner cross-functionally with Tax, Treasury, Legal, Operations, Supply Chain, Shared Services, Corporate Accounting, HR, and Global Security to support appropriate transaction structuring and execution from a controllership perspective.
• Oversee legal entity governance throughout the entity lifecycle, including formation, restructuring, mergers, liquidations, legal entity records, and audit readiness.
• Lead the regional controllership organization, build technical accounting and compliance capabilities, develop succession plans, strengthen organizational resilience, and promote accountability, integrity, and continuous improvement.

About you:

• You are an experienced regional finance and controllership leader with strong accountability for financial reporting, statutory compliance, internal controls, audit governance, and legal entity oversight across multiple APAC jurisdictions.
• You bring sound technical judgment in US GAAP, IFRS, statutory accounting, SOX, consolidation, intercompany accounting, foreign currency accounting, and accounting policy implementation.
• You are comfortable partnering across functions, including Tax, Treasury, Legal, Operations, Supply Chain, Shared Services, Corporate Accounting, HR, and Global Security.
• You can balance governance and business partnership, ensuring compliance and control while enabling process simplification, automation, and operational improvement.
• You have the leadership capability to develop regional teams, strengthen organizational resilience, and build a culture of integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Your experience includes:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
• Recognized professional accounting qualification such as CPA, Chartered Accountant, ACCA, or an equivalent national accounting qualification.
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and/or IFRS, local statutory accounting requirements across major APAC jurisdictions, internal controls, SOX compliance, consolidation, intercompany accounting, and foreign currency accounting.
• 12 to 18 years of progressive finance experience, including 5 to 8 years in controllership, finance director, or regional leadership roles
• Experience managing multiple APAC countries, legal entities, and shared-service relationships.
• Proven ownership of monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, regional consolidation and reporting, statutory audits, financial statements, balance sheet governance, account reconciliations, internal controls, SOX compliance, audit remediation, accounting policy implementation, intercompany accounting, transfer-pricing operational compliance, and legal entity governance.

Location:

Shugart, Singapore

Location: Shugart, Singapore

Travel: None