Accounting Manager (Assistant Controller)

The Assistant Controller is a critical leadership role reporting directly to the Corporate Controller. This position provides comprehensive financial oversight and operational management for the company's Singapore and Indonesia entities. Serving as the primary deputy to the Controller, this individual will lead the day-to-day execution of the accounting team, own the month-end close process, and ensure rigorous compliance with IFRS and local standards (SFRS/PSAK).

Tasked with supporting the Controller through a period of rapid organizational growth, this leader will manage the group's expanding operational transactions. Success in this role requires deep-dive analytical expertise to navigate and reconcile complex accounting workflows and multi-entity structures.

Responsibilities

Accounting, Reporting, and Execution

• Deputy Leadership: Serve as the secondary lead in the design, implementation, and continuous enhancement of accounting policies, procedures, and internal systems across regional entities.
• Multi-Entity Close: Oversee the end-to-end monthly, quarterly, and annual close process for the Singapore and Indonesia entities. This includes performing manual multi-currency consolidations, ensuring 100% accuracy in reporting, and providing critical redundancy for the accounting team's high-stakes workflows.
• Technical Standards: Maintain accounting policies to ensure SFRS (Singapore) and PSAK (Indonesia) compliance at scale, aligned with IFRS leading practices.
• Regional Compliance: Ensure corporate controllership policies are strictly aligned with local statutory requirements (ACRA/IRAS in Singapore and DJP/OJK in Indonesia) through proactive coordination with the Corporate Secretary in Singapore and the local finance/compliance teams in Indonesia.
• Intercompany & Transfer Pricing: Lead the reconciliation of balances and maintain precise records of revenue and expenses for multiple intercompany accounts. Ensure strict compliance with cross border transfer pricing guidelines through active coordination with an external transfer pricing consultant.
• Entity and Project Tracking: Systematically track and allocate expenses across regional entities in accordance with specific tax structures and project requirements. This includes the allocation of HR and labor costs to various entities and projects, ensuring full alignment with intercompany agreements and Transfer Pricing (TP) documentation requirements.
• Regulatory Monitoring: Stay up to date with changes in local tax laws, labor regulations, and international accounting standards (IFRS).
• Judgment Items: Drive accounting positions of unusual and/or high-judgment items (e.g., biological assets, impairment, or provisions) and prepare the organization for the impact of new pronouncements.
• Asset Protection: Protect regional assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing localized internal controls.
• Systems Management: Own the chart of accounts. Support the Controller in realigning accounts for a smooth transition to a new multi-currency ERP system or consolidation software.
• Team Supervision: Manage the general ledger, technical accounting, consolidations, and regional financial transaction teams.Sub-Ledger Integrity: Maintain schedules for sub-ledgers including capital projects, fixed assets, and the deferral/recognition of revenue and commissions in accordance with IFRS 15.
• Financial Operations: Drive the scale and efficiency of regional transaction teams (AP & Payroll). This includes performing reviews of statutory compliance to ensure that all government contributions and mandatory filings in Indonesia are accurately calculated, fully reconciled, and paid on time.
• Indirect Tax: Oversee the review of VAT/PPN (Indonesia) as executed by the local team; perform monthly reconciliations between Indonesian tax portals and the General Ledger to verify that all liabilities are accurately recorded, settled, and cleared.
• Direct Tax & Withholding: Drive the end-to-end corporate tax calculations for Indonesian entities in coordination with the Indonesia Finance Manager, while performing a comprehensive review of tax computations prepared by the Singapore tax agent. Oversee the reconciliation of Withholding Tax (PPH 21, 23, 26) for Indonesian operations, ensuring all deductions are accurately booked, reconciled to the General Ledger, and aligned with statutory requirements.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner effectively across regional operations to drive improved controls and institutionalize process flows that directly impact accounting integrity. This includes overseeing the verification and reconciliation of field expenses, site-specific operational costs, and community-related payments to ensure all data captured remotely is accurately reflected in the financial books.
• Reporting & Analysis: Support the Controller in the preparation of comprehensive financial reports, multi-entity consolidation walkthroughs, and cash flow forecasts. This role is responsible for ensuring the underlying data integrity and analytical commentary for materials presented by the Controller to the Board of Directors.
• FP&A Integration: Work closely with the FP&A team specifically on reporting efforts, focusing on the reconciliation and analysis of Budgets vs. Actuals to ensure accurate financial tracking and variance reporting across all entities.
  
  

Audit and Compliance Management

• Statutory Compliance: Ensure compliance with all regional accounting standards regulations,and mandatory reporting requirements.
• Control Optimization: Oversee and optimize internal controls and coordinate with external auditors as it relates to controls testing and evaluation of exceptions.
• Audit Leadership: Manage the annual statutory audit process for SG and ID entities; prepare all necessary financial documentation and serve as the primary audit liaison.
• Remediation: Implement corrective measures and recommendations resulting from audits and internal control assessments.
  
  

Team Leadership and Collaboration

• Mentorship: Lead and manage a regional finance team, providing guidance, coaching, and professional development opportunities.
• Culture: Foster a collaborative work environment that promotes open communication and knowledge sharing across borders.
• Strategic Insight: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide financial insights and support regional decision-making.
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience: 8–10+ years of experience in senior accounting/controllership. Direct experience managing financial operations within the Singapore and Indonesia markets is highly preferred; experience in similar Southeast Asian or emerging markets is a plus.
• Credentials: Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance and a licensed Chartered Accountant (CA) or CPA (ISCA, IAPI, or equivalent)
• Technical Mastery: Extensive experience with IFRS 15 revenue recognition, equity expensing, and multi-currency consolidations. Experience in specialized accounting for Biological Assets (IAS 41) or Forestry/Carbon Projects is highly preferred.
• Transactional Expertise: Hands-on experience with regional transactional teams, establishing SLAs, and building monitoring tools.
• Regional Depth: Proven ability to handle SE Asia financial operations, local tax frameworks (VAT, withholding taxes), and statutory reporting.
• Strategic Partnership: Experienced at collaborating with business leaders to articulate financial priorities and influence decisions.
• Systems: Proficient in QuickBooks and advanced Excel/Google Sheets (expert-level manual data manipulation is mandatory). Proven experience or familiarity with enterprise ERP software (NetSuite, Oracle, etc.) is a significant plus as the group prepares for system implementation and automation.
• Audit Background: Big Four public accounting experience and ERP implementation experience highly preferred.