Position Summary

The General Ledger Manager is responsible for the management of the General Ledger (GL) team within SEA Shared Service Accounting.

Principal Responsibilities

• Establishes financial status by developing and implementing systems for collecting, analyzing, verifying, and reporting financial information, and managing accounting staff.

• Achieves accounting operational objectives by contributing accounting information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and key performance indicators (KPI); resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; and implementing change.

• Meets accounting financial objectives by analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.

• Maintains accounting controls by reviewing accounting policies and procedures to propose best practices to standardize and enhance controls.

• Supports business and commercial operations by researching and interpreting accounting policies and applying observations and recommendations to operational issues.

• Accomplishes accounting human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; and enforcing policies and procedures.

• Leads projects to:

• tap on automation (e.g. RPA, Macros and other tools) to reduce manual inputs and intervention for GL processes
• drive process improvements and standardization, with a view to improve the team’s productivity and accounting controls

• Other GL accounting tasks include but are not limited to:

• reviewing monthly and quarterly balance sheet reconciliations
• ensuring that transactions are accurately recorded in accordance with IFRS, US GAAP and corporate accounting policies
• reviewing the monthly Dashboard reports ad analysis
• assisting with various audits
• other ad-hoc duties as required and/or assigned

• Candidates should hold an Accounting qualification (Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting) and have at least 5 years of experience in General Ledger functions, of which 3 years have to be in a managerial capacity
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, especially in MS Word and Excel, and in ERP systems (i.e. SAP)
• Meticulous, and able to work independently
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Be a good team player and leader, and most importantly willing to learn
• Ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve desired results
• Collaborative and positive attitude with desire to work in a demanding, fast paced, and dynamic work environment

• Is internal customer-centric
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency, contagious optimism and a “can do” attitude

  Find a Better Way

• Greets challenge and change as opportunity

  Win Together

• Inspires, motivates and collaborates with others
• Stretches across borders, breaks silos and builds effective partnerships with customers and colleagues