Sr. Manager Accounting

Area: GCA Finance

Department: Finance

Direct Reporting Line: Sr. Director Corporate Finance

Indirect/secondary reporting line: N/A

Subsidiary/country: China

Location: Shanghai

GSMS Grade: M3

Number of Personnel Managed: N/A

Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility: N/A

Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization

Ensure finance/accounting compliance, safeguard financial statements and audit risk management, partner with business functions and GBS

Key Responsibilities

Financial

• Oversee and responsible for overall China legal entities financial control in both IFRS and PRC GAAP, focusing on the biggest entity of aSports
• Ensure timeliness, integrity and quality of financial reporting including full compliance with local/group regulations leading to a clean Finance audit, through strict and structured control on BSR, closing process monitoring and TB controlling, focusing on the biggest entity of aSports
• Responsible for China internal/external audit (IFRS) and statutory audit (PRC GAAP).
• Be the advisor to business partners in business operation and decision from accounting perspective
• Responsible for assessing and minimizing the financial impact arising by tax regulatory/ accounting standard/Financial related process changes.
• Enhance and implement accounting and financial policies/processes/ regulatory policies
• Responsible for reporting to China government offices.
  
  

Management

• Being the focal from the market finance to lead GBS management/engagement, drive accounting excellence jointly through market finance and GBS.
• Coordinate and drive internal or x-functional project/problem solving to facilitate business operation and support decision making
• Bridge and manage among market stakeholders, GBS teams, group accounting, tax, IC&C and maintain a good relation.
• Manage audits or submissions to Government bodies (e.g. statutory audit, annual filing…etc)
  
  

Key Relationships

• Internal: HR/Legal/Sales/ECOM/ Marketing/SCM/GBS/TAX/ IC&C/Group Accounting
• External: External auditors/ government offices such as Bureau of Finance/Statistical Bureau
  
  

Knowledge Skills And Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree or above
• 10+ years in finance area with solid accounting knowledge and experience, ideally in audit/ consulting firm or Retail/ Apparel industry.
• Good communication and influencing skills (ability to convey complex ideas to audiences)
• High sense of responsibility and integrity
• Fluent written and spoken English.
  
  

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