Finance & Accounting Manager

ECLARO; Pasig; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

ECLARO Philippines invites an experienced Senior Finance Controller to lead month-end close, statutory reporting and cross-entity consolidation for Philippine and Australian entities. You will own tax compliance, treasury, and internal controls, while partnering with audit teams and senior management to drive accuracy and efficiency.

The role requires CPA, 6–9 years post-qualification, and strong ERP/Excel skills, with excellent English communication and a proven track record in multi-entity

Qualifications

• CPA with 6–9 years post-qualification experience.
• Experience in month-end close and financial reporting.
• Experience in cross-entity consolidation.
• Strong ERP and Excel skills; able to work with large data sets.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Own month-end close for the Philippine and Australian entities with accurate reporting and timely deadlines.
• Review and approve journals, accruals, prepayments, provisions and intercompany entries.
• Prepare entity-level P&L, balance sheet and cash flow with schedules and commentary.
• Maintain chart of accounts, reporting hierarchy and accounting policy across entities in scope.
• Own corporate income tax, VAT, withholding taxes and related filings in the Philippines.
• Support Australian entity金融 processes, including reconcilations and audit readiness.
• Drive revenue and cost controls, and ensure compliance with group policy.

Skills

ERP systems

Advanced Excel

Financial reporting

Education

Certified Public Accountant (Philippines)

Tools

Power BI

Job description

• Own the month-end, quarter-end and year-end close calendar for the Australian and Philippine entities and close the books accurately and to deadline.
• Review and approve journals, accruals, prepayments, provisions, depreciation, payroll postings and intercompany entries.
• Reconcile every balance sheet monthly, with ageing, named ownership and a resolution plan for each open item.
• Maintain and enforce the close checklist, elevate blockers early, and drive days-to-close down rather than accepting the current position.
• Ensure accounting treatment is consistent, correctly applied and documented in line with the applicable standards and group policy.

Financial reporting and consolidation

• Produce entity-level profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statements with supporting schedules and written commentary.
• Prepare the consolidation inputs for the Australian and Philippine entities, including intercompany eliminations and foreign currency translation.
• Maintain the chart of accounts, reporting hierarchy and accounting policy application consistently across the entities in scope.
• Contribute to board, leadership and investor reporting to a consistently high standard of accuracy and presentation.
• Keep reporting audit-ready at all times, with a traceable trail from source data to reported results.

Philippine statutory, tax and regulatory compliance

• Own corporate income tax, VAT and percentage tax, withholding taxes, and all related returns, filings and attachments.
• Own statutory registrations and filings — Securities and Exchange Commission, Bureau of Internal Revenue, local government units, and the social agencies.
• Own payroll-related statutory obligations, including SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG contributions and remittances.
• Maintain a Philippine compliance calendar with named ownership, due dates and evidence of completion.
• Manage assessments, notices, audits and correspondence with the revenue and regulatory authorities, engaging external advisors where required.
• Maintain books of account and support documentation to the standard required on examination.

Australian entity support

• Prepare the tax computations, reconciliations, working papers and audit file for the Australian entities, to the standard and timetable set by the Senior Manager Finance in Sydney.
• Prepare the supporting data for Australian indirect tax and payroll-related filings, for review and lodgment in Sydney.
• Maintain the Australian balance sheet reconciliations and resolve open items rather than carrying them forward.
• Support the Australian statutory audit by assembling the file, answering queries and clearing adjustments.
• Escalate anything that could affect an Australian statutory or lodgment deadline immediately, not at the next reporting cycle.
• Own the revenue assurance framework end to end — that revenue earned is captured, billed, collected and correctly recognized.
• Reconcile revenue between the operational and source systems, partner and retailer statements, and the general ledger.
• Identify, quantify and resolve revenue leakage, under-billing, pricing errors, commission discrepancies and unbilled revenue.
• Validate commission, rebate, claw back and partner settlement calculations against the contracted commercial terms.
• Build controls and exception reporting that detect revenue issues as they arise rather than at year end.

Payables, receivables and treasury

• Own accounts payable end to end: vendor onboarding, invoice processing, matching, approvals within the delegation of authority, and payment runs.
• Own accounts receivable end to end: invoicing, collections, cash application, ageing, provisioning and dispute resolution, and drive days sales outstanding down.
• Control vendor master data and changes to bank details and payment instructions, with segregation of duties and fraud prevention across every disbursement channel.
• Own cash flow forecasting for the entities in scope, manage banking relationships, mandates and authorization matrices, and monitor foreign exchange exposure against group policy.
• Manage intercompany funding and remittance between the entities in scope.

Audit, controls and risk

• Act as the primary point of contact for the Philippine statutory auditors and support the Australian audit through the Sydney role.
• Own the internal control environment for the entities in scope: design, testing, documentation and remediation of control gaps.
• Maintain the risk and controls matrix, delegation of authority and segregation of duties framework, and keep them current as the business changes.
• Track audit findings and management actions to closure, with no repeat findings year on year.
• Prepare the entities in scope for the higher governance and reporting standard the group is moving toward, including the documentation an external reviewer or acquirer would expect.

Planning, forecasting and financial analysis

• Own the annual operating plan and periodic reforecasts for the entities in scope: build the cost base bottom-up, challenge assumptions with budget owners, and hold them to what was agreed.
• Build and maintain driver-based models that connect operational drivers — volumes, headcount, site costs, vendor rates, foreign exchange — to financial outcomes.
• Deliver budget-versus-actual and forecast-versus-actual analysis at entity and cost-centre level, with root-cause commentary rather than a description of numerical movement.
• Run scenario analysis on decisions affecting the entities in scope, including headcount plans, site and vendor decisions, and currency exposure.
• Support the analysis of unit economics for the operations run out of Manila — cost to serve, cost per sale, and contribution by channel — and identify where cost lines can be improved.
• Work with the group FP&A function so that the plan, the forecast and the statutory result reconcile and use the same definitions, rather than telling three different stories.

Data, reporting and automation

• Build and maintain the management reporting and dashboards for the entities in scope, so that leadership can see performance without requesting it.
• Reconcile operational and source system data to the general ledger and establish a single source of truth where today there are several.
• Interrogate source data directly rather than relying on someone else to produce an extract and validate what the data supports before it is reported.
• Own data definitions for the financial and operational metrics used in reporting and keep them consistent across the entities in scope.
• Drive automation of recurring reporting and reconciliation, reducing manual effort, cycle time and error risk.
• Partner with the data and engineering teams on the integrations and data quality that finance reporting depends on.

Systems, process and team leadership

• Own the finance systems and integrations for the entities in scope and lead process improvement and any system migration affecting them.
• Document and maintain finance policies, process notes and standard operating procedures.
• Partner with the business and operations teams in Manila and Sydney to hold cost lines accountable and translate financial outcomes into terms a non-finance audience can act on.
• Build, lead and develop the Manila finance team from a standing start: clear standards, accountability, quality benchmarks and development plans.

Selection criteria

• Certified Public Accountant (Philippines) or an equivalent professional accounting qualification.
• Six to nine years post-qualification experience, with at least two years in controllership, financial controller or finance manager role owning the full-cycle close.
• Proven ownership of month-end close across more than one legal entity, including intercompany and foreign currency translation.
• Has owned statutory and tax compliance for at least one jurisdiction end to end — returns prepared, filed on time, and defended on examination.
• Has been the primary point of contact for statutory auditors and has managed an audit from planning through to signed accounts.
• Hands-on operational ownership of accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash management, including the controls around payments and vendor bank details.
• Experience reconciling revenue between operational or billing systems and the general ledger and resolving the differences.
• Has built or materially strengthened an internal control environment — not only operated one someone else designed.
• Experience leading a finance team, including responsibility for the quality of other people's work.
• Has owned a budget or reforecast cycle end to end — built the numbers, challenged the assumptions with budget owners, and been held to the result.
• Financial modelling capability: able to build and maintain a driver-based model rather than only maintain someone else's spreadsheet.
• Strong ERP and accounting systems capability, advanced Excel, and genuine comfort working with large data sets.
• Working capability with a business intelligence or reporting tool such as Power BI, Tableau or equivalent — able to build a view, not only read one.
• Excellent written and spoken English, including the ability to write commentary and audit responses that will be read in Australia.
• Core overlap with Australian business hours, including at month-end close.
• Willingness to work hands-on in a function that is still being built, rather than inheriting a mature one.
• Comfortable preparing and owning work that is reviewed and signed off by a manager in another country and time zone.
• Experience supporting or reporting into an Australian, United Kingdom, United States or Singaporean parent entity.
• Familiarity with Australian accounting, indirect tax or corporate filing requirements — helpful but not expected on appointment.
• Experience in a shared service centre, global capability centre or the Philippine subsidiary of a foreign group, with real ownership rather than process execution.
• Experience in a business with partner commissions, affiliate settlements, claw backs or high transaction volumes.
• Experience of audit-readiness, due diligence or transaction process, or of preparing a group for a higher governance standard.
• Experience of a Bureau of Internal Revenue examination or a comparable revenue authority audit.
• Big Four or mid-tier audit background before moving in-house.
• Experience implementing or migrating a cloud ERP or automating a finance process end to end.
• SQL or an equivalent ability to query source data directly without relying on an extract from someone else.
• Experience owning management reporting or dashboards for a leadership audience.
• Experience of unit economics analysis in a subscription, marketplace, lead generation or high-volume consumer business.
• Exposure to PEZA or other incentive regimes.