We are currently looking for a Financial Controller for the Philippines, who will be the strategic finance partner responsible for end-to-end financial planning, analysis, reporting, and performance management. This role partners with internal and external stakeholders to drive data-driven decision-making, optimize profitability, monitor budget adherence, and ensure robust financial governance across the business. The ideal candidate combines strong technical accounting and financial analysis skills with business acumen and cross-functional collaboration capabilities.
Your key role:
- To manage financial (external) accounting of the company or group of companies (GL and closings)
- Manage both direct and indirect taxes, and monitor timely filing per local regulation.
- Take and own responsibility for financial risk management and internal controls for related processes and securing adequate overall internal controls
- Ensure that the company, in all of its financial transactions, follows the laws and regulations of the local public authorities.
- Acting as contact point to FSSC and monitoring the quality of the data it produces
- Maintaining good co-operation with local auditors and the Group’s auditing team
- Preparing statutory accounts and closings based on the Group’s bookkeeping framework and closing package as well as the local bookkeeping principles.
- Preparing annual tax declarations and other control of monthly/interim tax payments. Acting as a contact point of tax audits.
- Updating the transfer pricing documentation together with Group Tax Management. Acting as a contact point for Head of Tax Management.
- Preparing mandatory reports and declarations to authorities (central bank, statistical center, Government etc.)
- Managing cash and co-operating with business of currency hedging of the company, acting as a contact point to Group Treasury
- Arranging internal controls for financial processes to prevent any fraud against the company’s cash and assets.
- To secure that the company has its own risk control methods and routines in line with the Group policies and Group insurance policies.
- To ensure that the company’s employees at all levels are aware of the Group’s policies, instructions and guidelines in financial, legal and IT matters
- Arranging internal controls for business and financial processes
- To inform the Group immediately in the event of any piece of information indicating a potential or an actual injury to the Company (i.e. the “alarm” system)
- Awareness of ISO 14001 and 45001 standards