Philippines Senior Accounting Manager — US GAAP & Controls

JLL; Makati; On-site; PHP 2,000,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

JLL Philippines is seeking a Senior Accounting Manager to lead the country-level accounting governance across two legal entities. This role drives the end-to-end month-end close under US GAAP and Local GAAP, ensuring SOX controls and timely regulatory obligations are met.

The successful candidate will coordinate with Shared Service, COEs and Tax to deliver compliant financial outcomes. They will own remediation of material balance-sheet issues, interact with external authorities, and partner

Responsibilities

• Own and provide final accountability for material country/entity-level financial, accounting and control matters.
• Lead and resolve in-country cross-business-line or cross-functional finance issues.
• Ensure material financial risks and unresolved issues are appropriately identified, owned, escalated and resolved.
• Direct and execute local legal-entity governance and finance-related corporate requirements.
• Hold ultimate responsibility for delivering Philippine statutory accounting and regulatory obligations accurately and on time.
• Collaborate with Shared Service, COEs, Tax and other functions to ensure local requirements are completed appropriately and in a timely manner.
• Own and execute matters requiring local finance judgment, representation or interaction with external parties and authorities.
• Perform designated local officer, authorized signatory or treasury responsibilities where required by the legal entities.
• Review, approve, and own the remediation of material balance-sheet, accounting and control exceptions, focusing on aged, high-risk or judgmental matters.
• Ensure appropriate owners and remediation plans are established and executed for significant control issues.
• Provide definitive country-level escalation for significant issues that cannot be resolved through normal centralized processes.
• Ensure the absolute implementation and effectiveness of global financial controls within the Philippines (retaining full responsibility for the control environment even where execution is performed by the Shared Service).
• Manage and hold final accountability for the month-end and year-end close, resolving all significant Philippines-specific accounting issues and ensuring accurate accounting in accordance with US GAAP.
• Drive and lead statutory audit matters requiring senior local involvement, partnering directly with the Audit COE and Shared Service.
• Take ownership of the resolution of complex audit, statutory or regulatory matters requiring local knowledge or management judgment.
• Partner decisively with Work Dynamics, Leasing and other business-line finance teams on significant country-level matters.
• Provide definitive finance guidance on matters requiring Philippines-specific regulatory, entity or operational knowledge.
• Drive and facilitate resolution of issues spanning multiple business lines or centralized finance functions.
• Maintain effective and influential relationships with local business leadership and relevant global and regional finance stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with Shared Service and COEs, holding each function accountable to ensure effective end-to-end finance delivery.
• Provide definitive country expertise and escalation support where centralized teams require local input.
• Formally elevate material service, compliance or control issues.
• Enforce and maintain clear accountability boundaries between country finance, Shared Service, COEs, and business-line finance.
• Manage the output of the Shared Service, which retains responsibility for day-to-day management and service delivery; note that Shared Service execution has no effect on the ultimate responsibilities the

Job description

JLL Philippines is seeking a Senior Accounting Manager to lead the country-level accounting governance across two legal entities. This role drives the end-to-end month-end close under US GAAP and Local GAAP, ensuring SOX controls and timely regulatory obligations are met.

The successful candidate will coordinate with Shared Service, COEs and Tax to deliver compliant financial outcomes. They will own remediation of material balance-sheet issues, interact with external authorities, and partner