Finance Governance & Cost Controllership Lead

AboitizPower; Makati; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

AboitizPower is seeking a Cost Controllership and Financial Governance Supervisor to lead policy development, risk assessment, and governance across the organization. You will coordinate with various units and regulators to ensure robust controls and audit readiness.

The role requires strong policy-writing, process-mapping, and leadership abilities, with a focus on continuous improvement and compliance across departments. This is a supervisory position based in Metro Manila, Philippines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Internal Audit.
• 5–7 years of experience in financial control or governance.
• Experience in supervisory roles or with at least 1–2 years in a supervisory capacity.
• Professional certification (CPA, CIA, or CFE) is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Policy & Governance Standards: Utilize process mapping to draft and standardize Finance policies and authority limits designed to arrest operational risks across business units while aligned with Controller mandates.
• Process Walkthroughs & Leakage Mitigation: Lead structured process walkthroughs to identify gaps and risks in current workflows and develop standardized protocols to mitigate financial leakage across the organization.
• Compliance Deep-Dives & Analytics: Conduct deep-dive reviews to ensure policy compliance and use analytics to identify control concerns, irregular spending, or potential fraud.
• Monitoring & Safeguards: Monitor compliance rates and policy adoption across business units, reporting deviations and recommending corrective actions and process safeguards to the Group Controller.
• Audit Readiness & Point of Contact: Serve as the lead point of contact for internal and external auditors regarding Finance controls, supporting audit readiness and remediation of identified control weaknesses.
• Governance Analytics: Prepare periodic governance analytics for the Manager, Group Controller, CFO, and CSU leaders highlighting financial compliance and governance risks.
• Policy Communication & Training: Translate complex control frameworks to write clear corporate guidelines, communicate policy updates, and conduct training sessions to build stakeholder understanding across departments.
• Benchmarking & Tool Enhancements: Benchmark Finance policies and controls against industry best practices and recommend tools or process improvements to strengthen monitoring and compliance tracking.

Skills

Policy writing

Process mapping

Risk assessment

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Internal Audit

CPA, CIA, or CFE certification

Job description

AboitizPower is seeking a Cost Controllership and Financial Governance Supervisor to lead policy development, risk assessment, and governance across the organization. You will coordinate with various units and regulators to ensure robust controls and audit readiness.

The role requires strong policy-writing, process-mapping, and leadership abilities, with a focus on continuous improvement and compliance across departments. This is a supervisory position based in Metro Manila, Philippines.