Purpose
The Financial Controller/Controlling Manager leads the controlling team, overseeing all activities and ensuring smooth execution of functions. He/She plays a vital role in the business and is a natural leader who motivates, manages, and controls the team for the purpose of developing efficiency with a view of optimizing the business's profitability. He/She ensures that all financial activities, records, and reports in the business accurately represent the business's financial situation.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Team leadership & operating cadence: Directs the Controlling team's daytoday operations (close calendar, task allocation, SLAs), sets performance metrics, mentors staff, and resolves crossfunctional issues with FP&A, Treasury, and Operations.
- Accounting policy & close governance: Enforces GAAP/PSAS and company accounting policies; oversees monthly/quarterly/yearend close, account reconciliations, journal approvals, and variance rootcause analysis; implements corrective actions and documentation.
- Tax compliance: Reviews/approves all returns (e.g., monthly VAT, quarterly income tax, annual filings, local business taxes), ensures ontime, accurate remittances; leads responses to BIR/local LGU inquiries, audits, and assessments, including evidence packs and position papers.
- Tax strategy & regulatory watch: Monitors new revenue regulations and jurisprudence for business impact; models scenarios and recommends tax optimization and riskmitigation strategies (e.g., incentives, structuring, timing of deductions) for senior management approval.
- Planning & performance management: Builds and challenges budgets (manpower, capex/opex), rolling forecasts, and longrange plans; prepares cashflow projections and liquidity views; translates variances into actionable cost, pricing, or investment decisions.
- Assets, risks & internal controls: Designs and maintains fixedasset accounting and physical control procedures (CAPEX authorization, tagging, impairment, disposals); runs risk assessments; strengthens internal controls (segregation of duties, approvals, documentation) and updates process narratives/SOPs.
- Reporting & executive insight: Produces and reviews management and statutory financial statements; develops dashboards and special reports highlighting trends, operational KPIs, and policy impacts to support executive decisions and strategy formulation.
- External audit & regulatory compliance: Coordinates endtoend audit cycles (PBC lists, walkthroughs, issue remediation), tracks management action plans, and ensures full compliance with finance, accounting, and tax laws/regulations; advises leadership on required policy or process changes.
Minimum Education
- Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting
- CPA
Minimum Experience/Training
- At least 5 years of extensive working experience in a senior accounting position, tax accounting or finance control position within a dynamic business environment
- Experience in handling corporate financial affairs
- Experience in leading a finance team
- Proven track record in result delivery and process streamlining
