Regional Internal Controls

Celestica; Kulai; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica Asia Controls Lead oversees Financial Accounting policies, internal controls, risk management, and compliance across Asia sites with site controllers, tax teams, and Corp. This role ensures timely filings, audit readiness, and strong control environments.

It requires SAP expertise, IFRS/US GAAP knowledge, and leadership to drive process improvements, treasury activities, and cross-site training for Accounting & Tax teams in Asia.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting & Financial disciplines.
• 8–10 years of accounting, tax, and finance experience.
• Experience in a supervisory role with business partnering.
• Expertise in SAP and IFRS/US GAAP concepts.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Asia closing calendar and balance sheet risk reviews.
• Manage R2R, AP, AR across Asia with KPI metrics.
• Drive SOX controls, tax, treasury, and statutory compliance.
• Own IT finance systems (SAP, Khalix, Power BI) and fixes.
• Lead training and mentoring for Asia finance teams.

Skills

Analytical skills

Negotiation

Problem-solving

Communication

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting & Financial disciplines

Tools

SAP

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

The Asia Controls Lead 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 serving as the systems finance lead for Asia.

Detailed Description:

• Supports Asia Regional Controller in identifying gaps in Finance policies and processes and working with Corporate to address the gaps via policy revisions or improved procedures guidance; ensuring awareness & understanding of policies & processes across the team.
• Ensuring documentation around key processes exists and bridging any gaps
• Ensuring execution and alignment with Corp policies and procedures
• Creating and ensuring the right internal control environment across sites in compliance with 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.
• Facilitating tax compliances (Direct & Indirect) – Quarterly touchpoints with Corp Tax team, facilitating strategic thinking on tax benefits available in countries and jurisdictions, discussion around open tax items and driving to closure
• Maintaining Statutory & Tax compliance calendar for all sites and working with Site Controllers to ensure there are no delays in filings, BOD/ AGM meetings etc. are happening in a timely fashion.
• Working with global Internal audit team in defining an optimized audit calendar each year, working with sites to ensure there are no major findings, 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.
• Maintain an overview and control of the Risk Acceptance process, manage renewals or new submissions.
• Working with Legal and Corporate tax on Legal entity landscape and optimizations & maintenance, providing strategic inputs on any changes needed. Ensuring share capital reductions and liquidations agreed are occurring in a timely manner
• Maintaining the secretarial services landscape, cost landscape related to it, ensuring optimizations, critical ongoing reviews
• Ensuring proper ownership between finance & operations for licenses & compliances across sites. Facilitating license maintenance for those owned by finance
• Complete ownership for Philippines & Corp entities that are not owned by the sites
• Oversee alongwith treasury the cash flow management, dividend distribution compliances from a finance standpoint, tax implications if any, bank signatory management and set up alongwith controllers.
• Oversee the FX landscape – currency on vendor contract compliances, FX hedging forecasts & strategies, any changes needed etc.
• IT - own the A1 system from a finance standpoint, ensure procedures are documented and understood by the sites, identify gaps and close, oversee and new implementations
• Manage new business reporting & set up requests in Khalix/ SAP. Support the sites to troubleshoot issues as they arize pulling the right experts in as needed.
• Provide support to the sites on an ongoing as needed basis around accounting issues (technical, systems etc)
• Routinely support existing finance systems applications (SAP, Khalix, Power BI etc.)
• Owning the Asia Closing calendar in partnership with the Asia FP&A lead and Site controllers, leading balance sheet and risk assessment reviews.
• Manage GBS R2R, AP, AR relationships, define metrics around measurement of efficiency & support, identify gaps and work with the site & GBS teams to address collaboratively
• Drives sustainable improvement in processes, simplification, optimization across sites
• Build & own the Training schedule for all Asia finance team. Work with Controllers to identify training needs and develop calendar.
• Handling ad-hoc matters/ projects assigned.
• Provide Leadership, coaching & mentoring to Accounting & tax managers across Asia sites
• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Accounting & Financial disciplines
• 8 – 10 years of experience in Accounting, Tax/ 3-5 years with experience in business partnership in a supervisory role
• Expertise in SAP
• 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 driven to challenge and improve, self-starter