Accounting & Controls Manager, Asia (Internal Controls/Accounting Policies)

General Overview

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. 

Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Summary

The Accounting & Controls Manager, Asia (Internal Controls/Accounting Policies) is responsible for Financial Accounting policies, driving Internal control compliances, managing risk on the balance sheet and determining risk mitigation strategies & solutions, ensuring there are no substantial defects identified in internal & external audits, driving tax, treasury and statutory compliances in all sites in partnership with the site controllers and Finance shared service team

Detailed Description

• Identifying gaps in policies and processes and working with Corporate to address the gaps via policy revisions or improved procedures guidance; ensuring execution, awareness &; understanding of policies &; processes across the team.
• Owning Asia Closing calendar in partnership with Asia FP&;A lead and Site controllers, leading BS and risk assessment reviews.
• Provide support / coaching to the sites on an ongoing as needed around accounting issues, drive cross-functional team initiatives
• Maintaining Statutory &; Tax compliance calendar for all sites and working with Site Controllers to ensure no delays in filings, BOD/ AGM meetings
• Manage FSS, AP, AR  relationships, define metrics around measurement of efficiency &; support, identify gaps and work with the site & FSS teams to address collaboratively
• Ensuring documentation around key processes exists and bridging any gaps - Oversee alongwith treasury a) cash flow management, b) dividend distribution compliances from a finance standpoint, tax implications if any c) FX landscape – currency on vendor contract compliances, FX hedging forecasts &; strategies, any changes needed etc.
• Creating and ensuring the right internal control environment across sites in compliance with US GAAP &; SOX requirements – ensuring controls exist, addressing any gaps, ensuring execution in alignment with controls
• Creating a blackline review calendar &; conducting blackline audits across Asia sites. Ensuring blackline reconciliations quality through those audits.
• Working with global Internal audit team in defining an optimized audit calendar, any findings are applied to all sites in an organized manner as a preventive measure, ensure controllers are closing IA findings in a timely manner.
• Provides leadership, coaching, and development to team members
• Drives sustainable improvement in processes, simplification, optimization across sites - Lead implementation of global/ regional projects

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Accounting &; Financial disciplines Professional accounting or financial qualification
• 8 – 10 years of experience in Accounting, with experience in business partnership;
• Familiarity to work in multinational company will be required.
• Candidates from manufacturing background strongly preferred
• Knowledge and understanding of Accounting (IFRS/USGAAP) Tax, Treasury activities and SOX.
• Candidate must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point
• Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Able to work independently, willing to take unpopular position based on fact finding and logical reasoning, as well as provide unbiased recommendations.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Significant skills required in multi-tasking and time management.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
• Ability to work in a fast paced culture
• Pragmatic, hands-on, flexible and adaptable to change, continuously

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.