APAC Financial Controller

APAC Financial Controller

8/13/26

The APAC Controllership group is responsible for maintaining the integrity of financial reporting, statutory compliance, internal controls, audit readiness, legal entity governance, and controllership oversight across APAC entities. The group partners closely with Tax, Treasury, Legal, Operations, Supply Chain, Shared Services, Corporate Accounting, HR, and Global Security to ensure transactions are structured, recorded, governed, and reported appropriately from a controllership perspective.  The team plays a key role in safeguarding the accuracy of financial information, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, maintaining an effective control environment, supporting audit and regulatory requirements, and driving continuous improvement across finance processes and organizational capability.   About the role - you will:

•    Own monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes across APAC entities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting under US GAAP, IFRS, local statutory, SOX, and regulatory requirements.  •    Review and approve accounting entries, reconciliations, disclosures, and reporting deliverables to support group consolidation and external reporting requirements.  •    Oversee statutory financial statements, local filing obligations, and legal entity compliance calendars across APAC jurisdictions.  •    Maintain an effective internal control environment, including control design, operating effectiveness, SOX compliance, remediation activities, financial risk monitoring, and escalation protocols.  •    Lead statutory audits, SOX controls activities, internal audit remediation, external auditor coordination, audit issue resolution, corrective actions, and audit documentation retention.  •    Partner with Tax and Treasury teams on transfer pricing implementation, permanent establishment risk monitoring, intercompany arrangements, cash repatriation structures, foreign currency matters, and Pillar Two data and reporting requirements, while owning controllership aspects rather than technical tax policy decisions •    Provide regional payroll strategy and leadership, including operating model design, payroll standardization, payroll transformation, country payroll oversight, service provider governance, payroll controls, compliance monitoring, and audit support.  •    Oversee accurate and timely payroll processing across the region, including recurring payroll cycles, off-cycle payments, bonuses, commissions, equity compensation payroll reporting, final payments, terminations, SLAs, KPIs, payroll continuity, and business resilience.  •    Ensure payroll compliance with local labor laws, RBA requirements, tax regulations, social security requirements, pension and statutory contribution obligations, actuarial valuations, SAFE compliance, sell-to-cover processes, and applicable data privacy regulations including GDPR, PDPA, and PIPL.  •    Steward working capital and balance sheet integrity across receivables, payables, inventory, fixed assets, intercompany balances, account reconciliations, and balance sheet reviews.  •    Interpret accounting standards and corporate policy, govern accounting treatment for significant transactions, review complex