General Accountant (LER Lead)

Competencies:

• A qualified Finance / Business / Legal with a proven track record of success with more than 10 years of significant Legal Entity Rationalization experience.
• Good understanding of relevant legislation and internal and external compliance requirements.
• Ability to think outside the box and identify issues and solutions to those issues.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including the ability to convey information and ideas to individuals and groups, with the ability to gain the confidence of senior management
• A high degree of organisational skills
• Excellent management skills including the ability to plan, set goals; and manage time, priorities, accountabilities, schedules and cost.
• Negotiates successful outcomes that achieve the required objectives and have the support and acceptance of all parties.
• Pro-active, goal oriented with excellent attention to detail.
• Effectively manages change to work tasks and the work environment, and assists others with adapting to change.
• A person of integrity who is trusted by others and consistently honours their commitments.
• Able to identify issues, problems and opportunities; make timely decisions; develop appropriate and innovative solutions; and ask for assistance if required.
• Demonstrates initiative and a willingness to learn and continuously improve on performance.

Required:

• Experience with a large ERP.
• Exposure to a contracting/engineering/construction or multi disciplinary services environment well regarded.
• Experience working in multiple jurisdictions across Asia.

Guide:

• Ability to work under broad or limited direction in setting work priorities
• Ability to interpret and apply relevant accounting standards and corporate directives.
• Proficient use of the most common Microsoft applications including intermediate/advanced knowledge of Excel to download and analyse data (pivot tables etc)
• Excellent problem solving and analysis skills with a high degree of analytical rigor
• Superior general ledger reconciliation skills.

Qualifications, Accreditation, Training:

• A recognised  bachelors degree (or masters degree) or equivalent qualification with an emphasis in quantitative discipline such as finance, business and legal.
• Postgraduate qualifications in the relevant discipline such as CA or CPA;  management or supervisory qualifications or equivalent.