As the Finance manager, you will:
Financial Management, Tax & Reporting
- Provide a leadership role in all aspects of the company’s financial activities.
- Manage a team of 3 in preparing the monthly closing of accounts and submission of financial reporting to the APAC Headquarters.
- Monitor and analyse profitability against budget / costing and overhead expenses.
- Coordinate with Head of Finance T&V and APAC FP&A team on monthly financial performance analyses (e.g. revenue, margins, costs variance).
- Supervise year-end closing:
- Plan the accounting year-end closing.
- Supervise closing process (liaising with auditors, tax agents, corporate secretary).
- Review financial statements & tax returns in coordination with auditors / tax agents.
- Calculation of tax payable (corporate tax, GST, other taxes), monitor tax payment and declarations supervised by tax agents if applicable
- Ensure accounting principles and rules are understood and applied by the accounting team (e.g. revenue recognition, cut-off on sales & purchases, etc…).
- Lead and prepare the yearly budget and forecasts with Thailand Management team.
Cash Management
- Monitor cash position and working capital.
- Optimize the use of short-term bank lines.
- Forecast short term cash flows in Group Treasury System (Kyriba).
- Liaise with local banks with support of APAC regional finance team on regular daily activities and for yearly renewal of bank facilities.
Working Capital Management
- Monitor and follow-up on AR collections to drive DSO improvements.
- Monitor and control inventory to drive DIO improvements.
- Track A/Ps and coordinate with APAC regional finance team to drive DPO improvements.
Credit Risk Management
- Monitor and follow-up on AR collections with objective to improve DSO.
- Help to manage the local credit risk exposure in collaboration with APAC Credit manager (credit limits & credit risk exposure assessment, optimization of customer payment terms).
- Support Thailand sales and management team in the review of ad-hoc special deals (e.g. milestone deals, preloads).
Internal Controls & Compliance
- Ensure effective internal control systems are in place.
- Help implement internal procedures across functional areas (e.g. finance, operations, marketing).
- Prepare compliance reporting, highlight significant risks, etc.
Business Partnering
- Review monthly country performance dashboard with Head of Finance T&V and Thailand Management Team:
- Provide insightful analysis of the financial performance of the business.
- Highlight variances and possible improvement areas.
- Drive fortnightly Business and Finance Review (BFR) review and improvement action items.
- Support sales team in deal assessment and approval process.
- Provide ad-hoc analyses and reporting to support Thailand business strategy and timely/relevant management decision making.
- Assist in the preparation of annual budget.
- Monitor and assess customer rebate programs and assess financial impacts per deal / on a yearly basis.
- Stock:
- monitor stock levels and coordinate action plans to reduce slow moving stocks.
- help to assess vendors’ stocking requests.
The ideal Finance Manager:
- Minimum 8 years of working experience in accounting/finance roles.
- Strong accounting and financial background.
- Proven leadership skills. Ability to organize/allocate/delegate tasks to team while maintaining a hands-on attitude.
- Efficient, hardworking, and positive work attitude. Self-motivated, able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills (good command of written and verbal English).
- Excellent analytical skills. Meticulous and proficient in MS office especially in MS Excel.
- Business / commercial minded individual with experience in the IT / Cybersecurity industry is a plus.
- Willing to work for an international group.
