Lead RTR Specialist - Thai Speaker
Finance
Full Time
Malaysia
2021-05-11
Your Role
· Providing leadership to a given Record to Report team;
· Ensuring that appropriate General Ledger processes, controls, policies and procedures are in place and comply with Electrolux standards;
· Ensuring that performance targets are met;
· Driving process improvement initiatives;
· Being a first point of contact for local GSSO Managers served;
A Typical Day
· Leading a team that is responsible for one or more of the following GL processes:
- Asset Accounting
- Inventory Accounting
- Tax Accounting
- Treasury and Cash management
- Period End Closing
- Reporting
- Audit Management
· Participating in the establishment of the SLA for the RTR area with the countries, in line with overall GSSC SLA’s;
· Monitoring and managing performance in the processes, ensuring that SLA’s and business objectives are met and that team resources are allocated effectively;
· A successful migration of the RTR work from countries to GSSC through adequate leadership in process documentation, work shadowing and training of a team members;
· Implementing methods and control tools to ensure stable and high quality in the provided service;
· Resolution of delivery problems and dealing with complex client questions that your team members can not resolve themselves;
· Timely and properly escalating to GSSC Process Manager and/or local GSSO Manager problems that reach beyond the scope of the migrated GL activities for the country;
· Reporting to GSSC Process Manager and, when appropriate, to relevant local GSSO Manager, any deviations from agreed standards (delays, use of wrong templates, missing input);
· Contributing to periodic meetings with other Team Leaders;
· Providing visible leadership to RTR team;
· Monitoring, coaching and supporting your team members to meet operational plans, development opportunities and career goals;
· Participating in recruitment processes of new team members;
· Managing team conflicts so that problems are resolved constructively;
· Spotting and resolving recurring performance problems and improvement opportunities;
· Preparing meeting agendas;
· Facilitating team meetings using appropriate brainstorming, problem solving, decision making, and project planning techniques;
· Managing meetings according to the team’s agreed upon guidelines;
· Delegating team tasks as needed (e.g. recording, gathering information, etc.);
· Facilitating ongoing self-evaluation of the team’s effectiveness;
· Providing methods to avoid repetitive mistakes within the team;
· Ensuring that needs of the business are understood within the team;
· Actively aligning and improving processes in order to deliver quality, productivity and transparency improvements;
· Maintain good working relationships with local GSSO managers through open communication on a regular basis and ad hoc as required;
· Follow up queries;
· Maintaining process maps and desktop procedures;
Additional responsibilities outside of standard job responsibilities:
· Participating in knowledge transfer and process documentation to secure a safe transfer of work from Finance departments abroad to the GSSC;
· Actively support in the execution of listed RTR processes if required;
· Sharing knowledge and lessons learnt with all team leaders within own country group and within the GSSC;
· Actively undertaking activities to increase your own competency portfolio in order to ensure continued effective service delivery within the SSC
Who You Are
- Candidates must possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies/ Administration. Management/ Economic/ Finance/Accounting/ Banking/Commerce or equivalent; relevant professional qualification (ACMA, ACA, CPA);
- MS Office, JDE, SAP (or other ERP system) knowledge;
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in post qualification accounting and finance,1 to 2 years’ experience in a middle management role, including staff management, experienced with Shared Service Centre environment, people & change management as well as working in a multicultural, international environment , understanding of relevant regional accounting practices and the regulatory environment;
- Passion to innovation, customer obsession, drive for results, communicative, team orientated, with analytical thinking, patient, paying attention to the details, organised, training skills, leadership skills, confidentiality, problem-solving skills, with the ability to motivate people, with the ability to plan and prioritize own work and other team members, taking ownership and responsibility of outstanding issues and queries;
- Transition experience and/or ERP implementation experience;
- Experience of working in a / within a multicultural, international environment;
- Available to travel / full time orientated;
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as candidates will be interviewed continuously. The position may be filled prior to the date described as 'Apply by'