Southeast Asia Accounting Manager

• Supervise day-to-day accounting operations to established SLA commitments and KPI Metrics, ensuring compliance and measurement to targets.
• Facilitate timely and accurate month-end closing within financial reporting standards.
• Assist internal and external auditor requests ensuring compliance to local, state, and federal government rules.
• Develops and maintains cost accounting pricing models.
• Ensure all SOX controls are executed, all potential defects are proactively eliminated, or action plan defined and followed up until resolution to ensure control compliance and mitigate risk.
• Collaborate closely with all stakeholders providing legendary customer service, especially with Local Colleagues for respective countries and Greif’s Global Supply Chain and our Commercial and Customer Service Teams.
• Work with global counterparts in support of standardization while maintaining data governance and business rules.
• Drive data quality, consistency, and synchronization across multiple systems.
• Focus on Continuous improvement, driving process improvement initiatives and managing automated efficiency implementations.
• Ensure Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) are in place and reviewed and maintained annually in line with Global Process Owner guidance.
• Responsible for cost management of departmental budget.
• People management of the assigned team: one-to-one discussions, development or improvement plans – where applicable – training, coaching, motivating.
• Prepare annual performance appraisals and provide frequent feedback to direct reports on their performance against assigned goals and objectives.
• Participate in the recruitment process by conducting interviews and evaluating candidates.
• Perform ad-hoc activities as necessary.

• University or college degree, preferably in Finance, Accounting or Economics.
• Skilled written and verbal English (Mandarin and Vietnamese a plus)
• Overall, minimum 8-10 years of work experience out of which at least 3-5 years of leadership experience, preferably in SSC environment.
• CPA or CPA Equivalent preferred with an understanding of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and GAAS (Generally Accepted Auditing Standards)
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Demonstrate a proactive, can-do approach to solve problems.
• Openness to change and ability to learn quickly.
• Customer focused (external and internal).
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.

• Multinational, dynamic environment.
• Stable company background.
• Long-term career opportunity.
• Work-life balance.

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