Assistant Manager, Networks Businesses, Global Accounting

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc; Pasig; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Pictures Entertainment seeks an Assistant Manager, Global Accounting in Manila to support the financial close process across territories and entities. The role partners with GFO, Capgemini, and local teams to ensure accuracy, compliance, and timely reporting.

Responsibilities include preparing close outputs, journal reviews, and management reporting, with a focus on continuous improvement and governance within a global framework.

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years of relevant accounting experience, including close/reporting support.
• Experience coordinating workstreams or supporting outsourced providers.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP/IFRS and financial reporting.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• ERP systems experience (SAP preferred).
• Ability to collaborate across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities.
• Review journal entries, reconciliations, and close schedules.
• Provide financial insights and ad hoc analysis.
• Coordinate with outsourced providers to ensure quality and timeliness.
• Assist with statutory audit requirements and tax reporting.
• Ensure GAAP/IFRS compliance and SOX controls.

Skills

GAAP/IFRS knowledge

Advanced Excel

Analytical skills

Collaborative mindset

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Business

CPA or CPA candidate preferred

Tools

SAP

Cadency

SAC

BW

Job description

Location: Manila, Philippines Working hours: Permanent night shift – 12:00am to 9:00am Manila time

SPE Finance and Accounting is transforming into a global, enterprise‑based organization focused on process improvement, standardization, simplification, and efficient use of technology.

The Global Finance Operations (GFO) team is responsible for delivering accurate, compliant, and timely financial reporting while partnering with business and FP&A teams to drive performance.

At the Assistant Manager level, this role is expected to support assigned accounting activities with strong ownership, sound judgment, stakeholder partnership, coaching, and a continuous improvement mindset.

Role Summary

The Assistant Manager, Global Accounting, supports the financial close process, including reporting, analysis, and process performance across assigned territories, legal entities, or process workstreams within Line of Business. This role serves as a key liaison between GFO teams, Divisional Finance, local/regional stakeholders, and outsourced providers (e.g., Capgemini), helping to ensure accuracy, efficiency, operational consistency, and continuous improvement. The Assistant Manager helps prioritize assigned work, coordinates day‑to‑day follow‑up with outsourced providers (e.g., Capgemini), and supports statutory audit requirements, tax reporting processes, and local compliance activities, escalating issues as needed.

Line Of Business

TV Networks Global Accounting

What you will do

Close & Control (Financial Integrity & Compliance)

Support execution of monthly, quarterly, and year‑end close activities for assigned areas, which may include LOB, territory, legal entity, or process responsibilities. Ensure accuracy and completeness of P&L, Balance Sheet, financial reporting, and close outputs aligned with SPE global accounting standards and local statutory requirements as applicable. Review journal entries, account reconciliations, close schedules, and reporting packages; identify issues and recommend improvements. Support the analysis and validation of key accounting areas for assigned areas, including revenue, reserves, accruals, inventory, prepaids, deferred revenue, intercompany balances, leases, or other accounting areas as applicable. Support variance (flux) analysis, investigate key drivers, and elevate operational, accounting, reporting, or compliance risks as appropriate. Ensure compliance with GAAP/IFRS, company policies, SOX controls, and established operational procedures for assigned areas. Support statutory reporting alignment, internal and external audit readiness, audit requests, documentation, remediation activities, and issue resolution for assigned areas. Help ensure integrity of financial statements, disclosures, reporting outputs, and operational accounting support for assigned areas. Coordinate with outsourced service providers (e.g., Capgemini), including reviewing deliverables, providing feedback, and helping ensure quality and timeliness of output.

Business Support (Insights & Decision Enablement)

Prepare actual vs. budget/forecast analysis and explain variances for assigned areas, highlighting key drivers and actions. Provide financial insights to support business performance, operational decision‑making, and timely issue resolution. Support ad hoc analysis and reporting for FP&A, Operations, Tax, Treasury, and other stakeholders as applicable. Analyze financial drivers such as revenue, cost, inventory, cash flow, working capital, or territory/entity impacts as applicable. Review and interpret financial results at detailed levels (e.g., title, product, territory, legal entity, or process level). Partner with cross‑functional teams to resolve issues, support governance alignment, and contribute to improved financial results. Serve as a supporting accounting contact to assigned territories, providing guidance on accounting practices and financial reporting requirements as needed. Prepare and review corporate reporting packages and quarterly submissions, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely delivery in partnership with territories and Corporate Finance. Identify emerging financial trends and meaningful business insights through analysis, providing recommendations that support informed decision‑making and operational performance.

BPO Management & Operational Execution

Coordinate day‑to‑day with outsourced service provider teams (e.g., Capgemini) for assigned areas. Monitor service delivery effectiveness, workload management, timeliness, quality, and adherence of process expectations. Support operational governance, KPI/SLA reviews, issue resolution, and escalation management processes. Support operational transition, standardization, and process alignment activities across internal and outsourced teams. Ensure operational execution aligns with established controls, governance framework, and service expectations.

Transformation (Process, Systems & Operational Excellence)

Review and maintain process documentation, including Desk Top Procedures, process maps, and Cadency tasks. Contribute to process improvement, standardization, and simplification initiatives for assigned areas. Identify, assess, and eliminate process gaps, operational risks, service delivery inefficiencies, and opportunities to eliminate low‑value activities. Support automation & technology enablement initiatives; assist assigned workstreams as appropriate. Ensure master data integrity and support data governance efforts for assigned areas. Support GFO operating model, Global Close initiatives and scalable operating practices within assigned areas. Champion a mindset of continuous improvement, learning, innovation and operational excellence that strengthens both team capability and business outcomes.

Cross‑Functional Leadership & Collaboration

Build and maintain relationships with Finance, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Operations, Technology, GFO, and global/regional teams. Support resolution of operational, accounting, reporting, and process‑related issues within assigned areas, escalating as needed. Communicate effectively across global, regional and cross‑functional stakeholders. Support a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration and operational consistency. Foster knowledge sharing and cross‑functional collaboration promote best practices, documentation standards and cross training. Champion ESOAR (Eliminate, Standardize, Optimize, Automate, Robotize) principles by encouraging standardization innovation and scalable ways of working within Finance Operations.

What you need

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Business; CPA or CPA candidate preferred; 4-6+ years of relevant accounting experience, including close/reporting support; Prior experience coordinating workstreams or supporting outsourced providers preferred.
• Experience supporting LOB, territory, legal entity or shared service accounting environments is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles (GAAP/IFRS), financial reporting, controls, and ERP systems (SAP preferred); Advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with close/reporting tools Cadency, SAC, BW or other reporting tools is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills; Sound business judgment; Ability to operate in a global, dynamic environment; Strong communication and collaboration skills; Attention to detail with big‑picture thinking; Ability to coordinate work across internal and outsourced teams; Operational agility, continuous improvement mindset and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Work Hours: This role requires working a permanent night shift.
• Right to work: This role is based in the Philippines. To enable us to meet our statutory and regulatory obligations, you must have the appropriate immigration permission to work and reside in the Philippines for the duration of your employment.

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