Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Professional Accounting Qualification: CPA, ACA, CA, or equivalent.
- 15 years of experience working in a multinational environment.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience managing teams.
- Experience in leading transformational change within teams or broader environments.
- Experience with international and multi-jurisdictional.
- Ability to lead process change, project management, and implementing and managing change.
- Ability to effectively maintain and manage stakeholder relationships cross-culturally (both internally and externally) and to present and communicate to audiences at all levels.
- Excellent operational, technical, and commercial skills.
About The Job
Google accountants are a savvy bunch who handle the core accounting responsibilities at Google. You know your accounting principles and the full accounting process end to end. You’ll advise on financial reports required by governmental regulations, and review, analyze, and interpret financial and budgetary reports. Every day is a new challenge, and you’re continually looking for ways to help our team become more efficient and effective. A team player at heart, you collaborate with our global team, advocate best practices and pitch in where needed. You move fast while keeping your attention to detail, and you tap into your problem-solving skills to support business objectives.
As a Regional Reporting Lead within Asia Pacific (APAC), you will be responsible for the integrity of APAC’s financial results (i.e. from a functional reporting lens) and for enabling locally compliant and controlled financial process. You will be responsible for providing a regional view and analysis of financial results and for connecting global and regional change to our Country Controllership network. You’ll lead a team of functional area experts who bring deep functional area knowledge, create strong cross-finance partnerships, and ensure that we build resilient, controlled, and scalable processes for the future.
The name Google came from “googol,” a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.
Responsibilities
- Be an integral part of setting the vision and strategic direction of the APAC Regional Reporting team.
- Lead a team of talented accountants and process leads, building their skills and enabling a high performing team, as well as fostering inclusion and belonging.
- Collaborate with Country Controllers, Global Process Leads, Directors, and Cross-functional stakeholders to influence and drive key decisions impacting regional risks and accurate financial reporting.
- Promote various process/systems improvement projects and guide the team to drive process improvement and implementation of solutions. Drive key initiatives and projects across International Controllership.
- Oversee and bring a strategic view to managing APAC’s financial reporting risks, and lead International Controllership and APAC Controllership initiatives, working with cross-functional and global teams.
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