Overview of job

GroupM APAC Regional Finance is looking for a Regional Assistant Finance Manager / Accountant (12-month contract) with demonstrated experiences to support the consolidated management reporting and financial analytics for the region.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to Regional Financial Controller of GroupM APAC Finance.

3 best things about the job:

1. Opportunity to work in the leading global media investment company with a fast-growing team of professionals.
2. Work closely with local country, regional and global finance teams
3. Develop your career in the regional finance and accounting area.

Measures of success –

In 3 months, you would have:

• You will be in pace with the GroupM’s value proposition and familiar with the company culture.
• Understand the P&L structures and reporting requirements.
• Understand the BFC reporting system, perform the data extraction and reconciliation by modifying the data extraction templates.

In 6 months, you would have:

• Good relationship built with the key stakeholders.
• Familiar with the monthly reporting requirement and process.
• Set up new reporting and data template to support the reporting and analysis requirement.

In 12 months, you would have:

• Processed a solid understanding of the regional reporting and analysis framework.
• Familiar with the quarterly reporting, forecast and budget processes.
• Able to highlight the risk and share ideas for improving the work process and reporting effectiveness.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Support the communication of the Global and Regional reporting requirements to the country finance.
• To ensure the country financial reports are submitted on time with good quality, to manage the month end closing process efficiently and support the forecast and budget reporting work.
• Review the financial reports submitted from Country, provide variance commentary and highlight risk to management.
• Responsible to maintain the master data information and data extraction templates.
• Responsible for intercompany transactions review and follow up the exceptions with country finance and other network offices.
• Support the regional local office accounting and finance work, including month end closing and reporting, statutory filings, external and internal audits.
• Ensure the compliance of regional reporting to SOX, company policies and Global reporting requirements.
• Assist in ad hoc projects, e.g. participates in system testing, business case review, process improvement project etc.

What you will need

• Tertiary education in Accounting/Finance or related discipline.   Qualified accountant is preferred.
• 4-5 years of accounting and finance experience with preferably regional offices, listed or sizable companies.
• Good interpersonal & communication skills.
• Independent, attentive to details, organized, proactive and eager to learn.  Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines in a fast pace environment.
• Fluency in both Chinese and English.
• High proficient in MS office (Excel and macros).  Experience in Hyperion, SAP or similar consolidation and reporting applications is a definite advantage.
• Immediate available is highly preferred

About GroupM

GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, MEC, MediaCom, Maxus, and Essence, as well as the programmatic digital media platform, Xaxis, each global operations in their own right with leading market positions. GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivaled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people. 

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About Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s small yet highly dynamic and efficient media market means it gets to operate with agility. Its internet and digital penetration continues to grow year-on-year, and has the highest smartphone penetration in Asia Pacific at 87%, while tablet ownership clocks in at 57%. Hong Kong’s digital market boasts a healthy mix of local, regional and global players, providing new opportunities in the media space.

If you want a future in media and communications, and believe in Hong Kong’s belief of “work hard, play hard”, there is clearly no place more vibrant, challenging and exciting than Hong Kong, where opportunities for you to innovate and grow are unparalleled.

GroupM APAC is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential.

GroupM is the leading global media investment management group serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence and m/SIX, as well as the programmatic digital media platform, Xaxis, each global operations in their own right with leading market positions. GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize the performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, and proprietary tool development. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivaled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people, and is increasingly working closely for the benefit of clients with WPP’s data investment management group, Kantar. Together, GroupM and Kantar account for over 50% of WPP’s group revenues of more than $20 billion.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMWorldwide on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm