Manager, Controlling APAC

Ørsted; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading renewable energy company is seeking a Finance Team Leader to manage a dynamic team in Kuala Lumpur. The role involves overseeing financial controlling processes, ensuring compliance, and fostering a motivating work culture. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in financial management, stakeholder engagement, and be proficient in both IFRS and TW GAAP. Join us to shape the future of energy with a commitment to sustainability and innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a finance team in a large company.
• Experience in controlling complex accounting areas.
• Ability to delegate tasks and facilitate team development.

Responsibilities

• Lead a finance team in APAC, ensuring timely financial reporting.
• Manage financial controlling at entity level across APAC.
• Facilitate compliant processes in financial reporting and audits.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Experience in financial controlling

Proficiency in IFRS and TW GAAP

Leadership

Process improvement

Fluent English

Job description

Join us in this role where you’ll be responsible for leading a team with four highly engaged and skilled colleagues based at our offices in APAC. The team is responsible for tasks in the APAC area, covering Malaysia, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and Australia.

Welcome to Financial Accounting and Controlling

You’ll be part of Financial Controlling where you, together with your colleagues, will ensure compliance and deliver high-quality and timely financial reporting to our internal and external stakeholders. You'll also work closely with our auditors to ensure that documentation is delivered according to an agreed quality and in a timely manner.

As a team, we support each other in solving complex accounting tasks. We make use of the individual skillsets in the team and ensure that all team members have challenging tasks.

You’ll play an important role in:

• creating a workplace that motivates, develops, and drives your team members, empowers them in their daily decision-making, and provides challenges and guidance for their continuous development
• managing the financial controlling at entity level for all entities in the APAC area, ensuring timely deliveries with agreed quality
• creating good and close collaboration with the service delivery teams responsible for the consolidated group numbers and our accounting team
• facilitating efficient and compliant processes within financial reporting compliance, complex accounting areas, financial controlling, and audits.

To succeed in the role, you:

• find motivation in creating a work culture characterised by trust and openness, giving constructive feedback, delegating tasks to develop colleagues, and proactively seeking development opportunities for your team members
• have experience as a manager, preferably from leading a finance team in a large company
• have experience working with and controlling complex accounting areas (IFRS and TW GAAP) and with process improvements
• have experience with stakeholder management, understanding the mid/long-term needs of our customers, and translate these into tangible actions and results
• have a proven track record of delivering a range of financial services and products to key stakeholders with strict deadlines
• have experience working in a public accounting firm or an accounting department in an international company and speak and write English fluently at an academic level.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us

Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [e-mail].

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

About the job

Application deadline: 19 July 2025

Location: Taipei City, TW; Kuala Lumpur, MY

Field of work: Finance and controlling

Employment type: Permanent

Work hours: Workplace: Office‑based

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted

We develop, construct, and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar energy farms, storage facilities, and bioenergy plants in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

We’ve been ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies for the past six years.

We’re headquartered in Denmark.

We have over 8,600 employees, working in 15 countries and growing.

An inclusive team

Ørsted wants all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, regardless of age, nationality, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs. We’re committed to secure an inclusive work environment characterised by a respect for all people so everyone feels free to openly share their input and ideas.