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Asia Regional Senior Manager of Accounting

Job Summary

The Senior Manager of Accounting leads the accounting team to maintain Compassion's general ledger, work closely with internal clients across the organization to answer financial questions and provide advice on proper accounting, conduct accounting research and analysis, review and interpret historical transactional activity, and complete the month-end and year-end close process. The primary purpose of this position is to provide full management through subordinate managers and/or senior professional staff. This responsibility includes hiring, discipline, and termination, as well as, coaching, performance management, assigning, checking, and approving work to satisfy broad objectives and department strategies. The incumbent will ensure completion of department responsibilities, calling on available resources to achieve department objectives, working within approved budget.

Essential Job Functions

This senior manager provides leadership, planning and consultation to subordinates, executives, and peer management in the successful alignment of assigned department resources to ensure achievement of operational priorities and initiatives. Develops departmental work plans guided by functional and organizational plans, impacts the department results by supporting and funding of projects, products, services and/or technologies. The incumbent contributes to or prepares and administers the annual budget and departmental expenses, ensuring accountability for on-time completion of deliverables based on department objectives, SLAs, and other Compassion standards, ensuring compliance with regulatory and board policies. Selects, manages and develops assigned staff, establishing goals and objectives, coaching and managing performance, including discipline, motivation, and annual reviews; supports continuous learning and development that enhances individual performance and organizational capability. The person leads professional staff responsible to serve internal customers, answering financial reporting questions, explaining accounting principles, advising on proper recording of transactions, and informing others of financial policies and procedures. This includes partnering in problem-solving for both procedural and technical issues. This person also serves as a subject matter expert on the organization’s financial general ledger system, including the chart of accounts, functional allocation, fund balances, segments and other attributes of the system.

Prerequisites

• Mature Christian person, based on evangelical Christian values, has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and is above reproach in integrity and honesty.
• Recognized as an expert in the community and requires in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline and broad knowledge of other job disciplines within the organization function
• Good leadership and management skills.
• Ability to develop and delegate work plans.
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems, Business Administration, or related discipline.
• Work Experience: Relevant work experience required to enable the individual to be able to successfully perform the job as listed.
• Licenses and Certifications: Applicants should preferably be experienced Chartered Accountants having certifications like GAAP, USGAAP, CPA, etc.

If you are interested apply, please send your Curriculum Vitae to apply4job@compassion.com before Aug 30, 2019.