Credit & Commercial Manager, North Asia

General Mills HK Ltd.; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

General Mills HK Ltd. seeks a senior accounting leader for the Credit & Commercial Accounting workstream within the Global Accounting Organization (GAO) in Asia. You will partner with commercial and finance teams to maintain accurate statements under US GAAP and drive financial integrity across North Asia.

You will lead a cross-market team, guide accounting policy, and ensure timely month/quarter/year-end closes while reinforcing strong credit governance and control mechanisms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance (or equivalent).
• 10+ years FMCG accounting/controlling experience.
• Proven leadership of cross-market teams.
• Strong ability to partner with multiple business partners.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• English proficiency required.

Responsibilities

• Provide accounting and control expertise across North Asia commercial and finance teams.
• Lead and develop a cross-market accounting function within GAO Asia.
• Ensure compliance with US GAAP and current financial legislation.
• Oversee credit, revenue, trade and consumer related controls and processes.
• Coordinate annual audits with internal/external parties.
• Develop and implement sustainable financial controls and improved processes.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Communication

Attention to detail

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance

Job description

COMPANY OVERVIEW

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one another and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next. At General Mills, every day brings opportunities to learn, collaborate, and make a meaningful impact. Our success is built on strong financial stewardship, trusted business partnerships, and talented people who bring expertise, curiosity, and a continuous improvement mindset to everything they do. We invite you to bring your unique perspectives and skills to help drive operational excellence across our business. The Credit & Commercial Accounting workstream is one of the critical parts of Global Accounting Organization (GAO) in Asia. This role will work with commercial functions and finance organizations to maintain accurate external financial statements in compliance with US GAAP requirements and will act as the accounting business partner to commercial functions. Additionally, this role provides accounting and technical guidance, evaluates business finance transactions against changing accounting and regulatory rules, supports our commercial reporting processes and changes, maintains strong credit governance mechanism complied with credit principles in North Asia. Enablers for success in this role also include the ability to lead a team through an evolving North Asia operating model, high situational agility, and ability to partner for impact with multiple business partners. We offer excellent career development opportunities, a collaborative and inclusive culture, flexible work arrangements, and the opportunity to work with talented teams across the region. Join us and play a key role in strengthening our financial integrity, enabling business growth, and advancing the success of the Global Accounting Organization in Asia.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Business Partnership: Provide accounting and control expertise and build strong business partnership across the commercial team and finance team in North Asia. Collaborate across commercial functions, FSS and communicate with leadership to improve the processes that interact with accounting, and drive the accuracy of financial results, functional excellence through strong relationships. Build functional excellence in accounting capability across the network and ensure balance between GAO strategy and business needs. Partner to provide support to other functions based on agreed project plans/agreed change management.
• Proactively engaged in key business changes/refine to assess critical financial risk and financial implication (e.g., accounting memo for business model changes, accounting implication for E-commerce investment, manage bad debt risks), to have effective and sustainable financial controls activities, and to maintain strong financial controls environment.
• Liaison with internal/external parties for annual audit coordination and act as main contact for local statutory audit inquiry.
• Accounting Function Excellence: Manage credit related risks and assess bad debt per changing business environment.
• Follow and comply with US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) and current financial legislation for financial statements.
• Maintain and oversee accounting procedures, controls, and processes especially for credit/revenue/trade/consumer related ones.
• Develop sustainable solutions for all identified financial control gaps, and ensure they are implemented in a manner consistent with global standard process.
• Ensure an accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and year end close, and ensure the timely reporting of all monthly financial information especially focus on bad debts/revenue/trade/consumer expense related activities. This includes managing resolutions for escalated issues.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance
• 10 years+ experience in FMCG company Accounting/Controlling roles with solid accounting & control knowledge
• Demonstrated leadership skills with proven expertise supervising management and professional level staff
• Be a strong people manager to lead a cross-market team
• Be patient, open minded and agile to lead team through ambiguity
• Ability to partner with multiple business partners and build trusting relationships
• Ability to proactively and effectively communicate and influence across the organization
• High attention to details and have ability to deliver key messages in a logic way
• English proficiency required

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must meet minimum age qualifications in the country in which the job is located. New possibilities. Bold thinking. Real heart. Build remarkable brands with remarkable people. At General Mills, we make food the world loves. Across 100+ markets, we come together to create, innovate and grow. Here, you’ll do meaningful work and help to lead the future of food at a company that stands for good.