Financial Controller Indonesia & Vietnam

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Finance Controller, Indonesia and Vietnam

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

About the job

The Finance Controller role at Kantar is an outstanding opportunity to lead and develop our financial operations in Indonesia and Vietnam. Reporting directly to the SEA Financial Controller, you will coordinate statutory and fiscal reporting, local compliance, and controls. Your insights and analysis will empower our Finance Business Partners and collaborators to make informed decisions with a clear understanding of financial impacts. Join us and play a pivotal role in driving our financial excellence!

Job Goals

• Build and nurture strong working relationships with our shared services team, Kantar Business Services (KBS), located in India and Portugal.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team, ensuring they are motivated and equipped with the skills to excel in Accounting and Controlling functions.
• Harmonize financial and administrative procedures, policies, and processes across Kantar’s divisions.
• Ensure accurate and timely compliance with all fiscal and statutory reporting requirements, adhering strictly to WPP and Kantar accounting policies.
• Prepare comprehensive statements for board review.
• Manage relationship with local fiscal and regulatory bodies and review monthly, quarterly, annual returns for accuracy and completeness.
• Establish and maintain a robust controls environment, monitoring and reporting compliance in collaboration with shared service centers and IT divisions.
• Coordinate audit compliance activities, ensuring successful statutory accounts sign-off and effective interactions with auditors.
• Manage the posting of judgmental period-end accruals and adjustments, making sure policies and standards are followed, and working with Finance Business Partners when required.
• Manage contract stage-related adjustments and write-offs.
• Collaborate closely with the Finance Business Partner to support the preparation of draft periodic budgets, capital plans, and forecasts.
• Produce financial information and analysis to enable business collaborators, working with their Finance Business Partners, to make informed decisions.
• Conduct payroll reviews in coordination with HR before submission.
• Address relevant ad hoc queries from Kantar or their nominated third parties, such as insurance renewal questionnaires and new hire or severance templates.
• Communicate and ensure compliance with global procurement deals, including commercial review of non-PSL supplier contracts for overhead or operating costs.

Ideal Skills and Capabilities:

• Fully qualified accountant with a CPA or ACCA certification.
• Proven expertise in financial management and accounting, with a strong track record in Controllership.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and motivate a team effectively.
• Outstanding analytical skills and financial competence.
• Ability to identify major risks and develop collaborative plans with management teams to mitigate them.
• Accountable and reliable, delivering on promises and commitments even in challenging circumstances.
• Capable of making sound decisions under time pressure and complex conditions.
• Experience in dealing with regulatory bodies and managing an accounting team or working with a shared service centre.

Continue to shape your future at Kantar. We're proud you're considering how to always get better and are making the investment in your career. Let’s continue to win together and help shape the brands of tomorrow.

What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You’ll be joining our Insights division, the masters of using data to resolve challenges. They help brands define what they should stand for, how to reinvent and renew their offer, how to better reach audiences, and how to win with consumers. By blending human insights expertise with the latest technology advances, Insights make sure we can deliver innovative information to brands everywhere.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.  

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way works for them. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Privacy and Legal Statement

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

Location

Ho Chi Minh City, Vo Van Tan StreetVietnam

Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver. 

 

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us. 

 

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration. 

 

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes. 

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.