Business Controller

Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Nicholas Low

Contact email: wenjie@aurora-talent.com
Job ref: 33247
Published: over 1 year ago
Startdate: 05 September 2022 - 05 September 2022

The Company’s mission is to develop, deliver and operate renewable energy projects, specializing in commercial and industrial (C&I), utility-scale solar, wind and energy storage solutions across the Asia Pacific region.

 

Job description

Financial Accounting

  • Support Annual Audits across all project companies in multiple jurisdictions in Asia, but mainly focused on Taiwan companies

  • Help implement and execute the Accounting, Tax and Structuring due diligence advice

  • Ensure the complete and accurate adoption of specific taxes, new regulations, and strict compliance with local tax regulation

  • Deliver monthly management reporting in accordance with prescribed timeframes, managing project companies as they progress through the development life cycle, with phases from development, construction, through to operations

  • Review of monthly financials, indirect tax submissions (eg WHT, VAT etc)

  • Continued review and compliance with Finance risk and controls

  • Be the Finance business partner for the Head of Taiwan, supporting her needs and being the key interface into the Finance organisation

 

Finance Systems

  • Help drive the Finance transformation agenda, by continuously challenging the status quo and streamline systems and processes

  • Deliver efficiencies and a “best in class” experience to all stakeholders 

 

People

  • Effectively collaborate across a lean team of six finance professionals, providing financial control oversight, by effectively managing operational handoffs with all relevant outsourced service providers

 

Job requirements 

  • A qualified accountant (ACCA, CA, CPA) with over 8 years’ experience, with a demonstrated track record of supporting financial reporting and familiarity with IFRS

  • Exposure to project accounting as it relates to infrastructure projects would be a bonus

  • Has managed tax compliance, and is able to digest and apply technical Accounting and Tax advice

  • Able to build effective relationships across organizational boundaries

  • A strong and effective communicator and problem solver, with an innate ability to distill information into an easily digestible format for consumption by impacted stakeholders

  • A self-starter with a change mindset, able to identify risks and opportunities, effectively communicate them to seek buy-in, and successfully implement the proposed recommendations

  • Able to participate in molding the Finance function into the desired target operating model

  • Advance skills in MS-Office suite (Power BI, MS Excel)

  • Proficient with enterprise grade General Ledgers eg Oracle, SAP, MS Dynamics etc