Regional Management Accountant

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.