Manager, Regional Finance Processes

The role will be responsible for designing the processes and workflow for timely recording and reconciliation of Lazada’s transactions from a regional perspective. This position will focus on supporting the rollout of new initiatives and projects, ensuring their smooth transition and operation and driving transformational efficiencies and automation across all ventures, while ensuring the existence of sufficient controls to mitigate any risk implication.

Responsibilities

In this position, you will:

• Be the subject matter expert in processes and systems used for various accounting processes.
• Contributes to the review of business initiatives
• Design process and suggest systems developments to support the success of business initiatives.
• Be involved in Business Partnering with relevant stakeholders.
• Create documentation of policies, manuals and SOPs for new initiatives.
• Build trusting relationship and continuous interaction with internal stakeholders, as well as, BPO (if required) to ensure high quality delivery of service and maximum customer satisfaction.
• Support the transition of new entities/ workflow to Finance BPO when there are new initiatives, process changes or transactional work remaining in local ventures, as well as, the overall governance framework for Finance BPO, including SLAs monitoring and issues resolution.
• Continuously seek process improvement, greater productivity and efficiency in accounting processes, which might involve process re-design, including adoption of automation tools, and resolve potential control issues.
• Participate in other projects as required

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, minimum 5 years’ experience with experience in managing projects / implementations.
• Technically competent and operationally hands-on.
• Ability to work cross-functionally.
• Ability to work within tight timeframes, manage multiple priorities and demonstrate flexibility as priorities change.
• Detail oriented with excellent communication (written and verbal) and organization skills.
• Inquisitive mind to question status quo and propose improvements using automation tools and improve workflows.
• Able to be proactive in solving problems and developing creative solutions.
• Must be fluent in both English and Chinese.
• Familiar with SAP is a plus.