Finance Assistant Manager

Job Description

• Month-End Closing & Financial Control: Oversee month-end closing, account reconciliations, and payment cycle controls to ensure accuracy and compliance with accounting standards.
• Payment & Prepayment Management: Manage the end-to-end payment process, ensuring payment proposals are validated, advances and prepayments are settled on time, and unauthorized disbursements are prevented.
• Digitalization & Automation: Drive P2P digitalization and automation initiatives to reduce manual activities and improve process efficiency.
• Finance–IT Collaboration: Act as the P2P Finance partner to IT, supporting ERP enhancements, portal development, system integrations, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Audit & Compliance: Ensure adherence to internal financial controls, identify process gaps, and implement corrective actions.
• Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop the P2P team, establish clear KPIs, and drive performance improvement.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with Procurement, Legal, Treasury, and other relevant stakeholders to resolve operational issues and optimize end-to-end processes.
• Process Standardization: Develop, maintain, and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure process consistency and operational effectiveness.


Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; ACCA, CPA, or CMA qualification is highly preferred.
• 5–7 years of relevant experience in P2P or Accounts Payable, preferably in a multinational company, including 2–3 years in a leadership or supervisory role.
• Good working proficiency in English.
• Advanced proficiency in ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or Sage, and Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and data modeling.
• Strong knowledge of financial controls, VAT and withholding tax regulations, payment processes, and working capital management.
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with fluency in English and proven experience leading cross-functional projects.