Director Financial Control

Manulife; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 5,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Manulife invites a seasoned senior finance executive to lead Finance, Accounting and Reporting for multiple regions. You will oversee end-to-end close, GL integrity, and regulatory reporting while guiding the global shared services organization.

Responsibilities include accounting advisory for new products, risk management, and driving transformation with automation, analytics, and responsible AI. A CPA and extensive IFRS/GAAP expertise are required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in financial control, accounting operations, and reporting with leadership of multi-workstream teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Record-to-Report and month, quarter, and year-end close.
• Own general ledger integrity, chart of accounts, journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, allocations, and estimates.
• Deliver statutory, regulatory, and management reporting that is accurate and audit-ready.
• Oversee accounting for insurance, reinsurance, and investments — premiums, claims, reserves, and investment income.
• Act as senior escalation point for complex accounting judgments — IFRS 17 and IFRS 9.
• Provide accounting advisory for new products, transactions, and regulatory changes.
• Lead SOX/compliance, audit readiness, and remediation.
• Drive finance transformation, standardization, and process modernization.
• Sponsor automation and responsible AI in Finance; advance analytics and visualization.
• Lead a global shared services team across regions and entities.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

ERP systems

IFRS/GAAP

Power BI

Excel

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's in Accounting/Finance

CPA or equivalent

MBA/CFA/CMA (plus)

Tools

Infor

SAP

Oracle

Job description

As Director of Finance, Accounting and Reporting, you lead accounting, period-end close, and financial reporting for your assigned businesses, legal entities, or regions — delivered through a world-class global shared services model. You will manage roughly 70+ FTEs in the Global Finance Shared Services team supporting North America, Europe and Asia.

As a senior leader in Finance, you serve as the guardian of financial integrity and the driver of its future evolution — standardizing processes, scaling delivery, strengthening controls, and modernizing Finance through automation, advanced analytics, and responsible AI. Technical depth, genuine decision authority, and global impact: this role brings all three together.

Position Responsibilities:

Accounting, Close and Reporting

• Lead end-to-end Record-to-Report and month, quarter, and year-end close — on calendar, right first time.
• Own the integrity of the general ledger, chart of accounts, journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, allocations, and estimates.
• Deliver statutory, regulatory, and management reporting that is accurate, complete, and audit-ready.
• Oversee specialized accounting for insurance, reinsurance, and investments — premiums, claims and benefits, policy and actuarial reserves, treaty and ceded balances, investment income, and asset valuation.
• Act as senior escalation point for complex accounting judgments, unusual or non-standard transactions, and new or updated standards — including IFRS 17 and IFRS 9.
• Provide accounting advisory for new insurance and investment products, transactions, and regulatory change — turning technical complexity into clear decisions.

Controls, Risk and Audit Readiness

• Maintain a strong control environment and full compliance with SOX, accounting policy, and regulatory obligations.
• Lead audit readiness and partner with Internal and External Audit, Controllership, Risk, and Compliance.
• Identify risks early, drive root-cause remediation, and close findings for good.
• Build controls into every transition, automation, and system change — by design, not after the fact.

Global Service Delivery

• Run Accounting and Reporting services in a global shared services model, aligned to enterprise Finance priorities and global process standards.
• Set the governance: service expectations, performance measures, decision rights, escalation paths, and operational reviews.
• Deliver consistently on quality, timeliness, productivity, cost, and stakeholder experience.
• Manage capacity, resilience, and competing priorities across BAU, close, transitions, remediation, and transformation.
• Make the trade-off calls — protecting financial integrity, controls, and regulatory commitments every time.

Finance Transition and Transformation

• Lead Finance Transformation initiatives that make Accounting and Reporting standardized, scalable, controlled, and insight-driven.
• Own transitions end to end: process discovery, knowledge transfer, readiness, parallel runs, go-live, and stabilization — with zero disruption to close, reporting, or audit.Set transition success measures, governance routines, and remediation tracking; close gaps with named owners and deadlines.
• Standardize and simplify processes across regions and entities — cutting manual work, accelerating close, and strengthening controls.

Systems, Automation and Responsible AI

• Provide business leadership for ERP, reporting, workflow, and analytics initiatives — from requirements and testing through adoption.
• Sponsor automation that improves efficiency, scalability, quality, and employee experience.
• Champion responsible generative AI in Finance, with the right guardrails on data, privacy, risk, model governance, and human review.
• Advance analytics and visualization to sharpen performance management, risk identification, and decision support.

People and Stakeholder Leadership

• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of people leaders, technical specialists, and process experts.
• Build technical depth, succession strength, and cross-training that removes key-person risk.
• Foster an inclusive culture of trust, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Be the trusted partner to senior Finance and business leaders, Controllership, FP&A, Technology, HR, Risk, and Audit.
• Present results, risks, and transformation progress to senior governance forums with clarity and credibility.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA, Chartered Accountant, or equivalent is and advantage. CMA, CFA, MBA, or transformation, risk, data, or project certifications are a plus.
• 10+ years in financial control, accounting operations, and reporting, including significant leadership of managers and multi-workstream teams.
• Deep Record-to-Report and period-end close expertise, with working knowledge of Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash.
• Hands‑on experience in insurance, reinsurance, and investment accounting — reserves, premiums and claims, ceded and treaty balances, investment income and valuation. Wealth and asset management exposure is a plus.
• Advanced command of IFRS and/or US GAAP (IFRS 17 and IFRS 9 an advantage), SOX and control design, cost and expense accounting, and complex transactions.
• Proven leadership in a global shared services, captive, or multi‑location Finance environment — including transition execution, stabilization, and process transformation.
• Track record sponsoring automation, system enhancements, analytics, or Finance modernization; strong ERP skills (Infor, SAP, Oracle, or similar) plus Excel and Power BI.
• A leader who thinks strategically, decides with evidence, influences senior stakeholders, protects the control environment, and builds future‑ready talent.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Accurate, complete, and on‑time close and reporting.
• A strong control environment, sustained audit readiness, and findings closed on time.
• Service quality, timeliness, and productivity targets consistently met.
• Finance Elevate transitions delivered and stabilized, with standardization, automation, and analytics targets achieved.
• Improved process maturity, scalability, and operational resilience.
• High stakeholder confidence in financial results, service delivery, and technical advice.
• A growing, engaged team with strong technical depth and succession readiness.