Job Description:
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
1. Financial Reporting & Controllership
Support the APAC Director of Financial Controls in managing monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial reporting and controllership activities.
Lead key controllership processes including month-end close (MEC), QE close, P&L, Balance Sheet, and CPS finalization, ensuring timely closure of the finance cube.
Ensure accurate and compliant BPC reporting across Intercompany, Finance, CPS, and related applications.
Prepare, review, and finalize the APAC Balance Sheet Review Deck, support F2F deck, including executive summaries, audit updates, key risks, and transformation highlights.
Perform high-level data source reviews to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency before submission.
Provide regional insights on accrued income vs. turnover and other key balance sheet movements, expanding coverage to additional markets as required.
2. Analysis & Forecasting
Review and analyze NWC and cash forecasts, validating cash conversion and supporting market-driven adjustments.
Prepare and review balance sheet flux and variance analyses for APAC markets, ensuring clear explanations and corrective actions where required.
Support markets using standardized approaches for balance sheet forecasting during RF and budget cycles.
Support the Regional FC during RF cycles through consolidation, report refresh, analytical review, and market coordination.
3. Documentation, IA & Compliance
Own and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for regional controllership processes.
Review/Approve Balance Sheet reconciliations prepared by in-scope markets (including Singapore), provide feedback, and ensure timely remediation.
Review LOS documentation, select samples for group submissions, and coordinate clarifications with markets.
Coordinate and strengthen the Internal Audit (IA) 3-way match process, including sample selection, issue tracking, and resolution.
Support internal and external audits by coordinating documentation, explanations, and responses.
Manage ad hoc controllership and compliance projects as required.
4. Credit Risk, Earnout & Investment Oversight
Review credit risk exposures, identify insufficient or high-risk cases, and drive corrective actions with markets.
Manage earnout disclosure processes, including tracker updates, validations, and timely market follow-ups.
Review earnout and investment reporting on a monthly basis to ensure accurate regional reporting and disclosures.
5. IFRS & Group Reporting
Support group reporting requirements across IFRS 9, IFRS 15, and IFRS 16 for APAC markets.
Lead tracker preparation, template reviews, and market coordination for group submissions.
Proactively resolve group and regional queries by clarifying requirements, validating support, and engaging markets early.
Monitor and analyze ATP movements and other key metrics, supporting markets during quarterly and year-end submissions.
6. Team Coordination & Oversight
Provide day-to-day guidance and oversight to the integrated APAC and SEA CCoE teams.
Drive timely and accurate delivery of all regional deliverables, especially during peak close, RF cycles, or team transitions.
Ensure continuity of delivery by redistributing work, providing hands-on support, and managing dependencies when required.
Collaborate closely with Regional, GFRA, Market Finance, and Ops Finance teams.
7. Process Improvement & Stakeholder Engagement
Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, control effectiveness, and reporting quality.
Build strong relationships with regional and market stakeholders, acting as a trusted controllership partner.
Proactively engage market users and new joiners to explain group reporting requirements, policies, COA, and BPC/SAC processes, reducing downstream queries.
Monitor and support adherence to group and regional KPIs, addressing gaps proactively.
8. Training & Mentorship
Mentor junior team members and provide structured on-the-job guidance.
Establish and sustain a training pillar within APAC CCoE, covering processes, systems, reporting requirements, and best practices.
Professional Skills & Qualifications
Qualified CA with 8+ years of experience in financial reporting, controllership & consolidation.
Strong knowledge of IFRS and technical accounting.
Advanced user of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, hands-on experience with SAP BPC; exposure to Blackline is an advantage.
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.
High ownership mindset with the ability to operate in a fast-paced, multi-market environment.
Personal Attributes
Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity.
Agile, resilient, and adaptable to changing priorities.
Working with us
Joining dentsu, you’ll join a team of ~71,000 people. It’s an opportunity to produce career-defining work. Along the way, you’ll team up with inspiring colleagues and encounter a richness of clients, cultures and experiences. We offer exciting challenges, memorable experiences and opportunities to shape your future.
Inclusion and Diversity
We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won’t define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That’s what we care about.
So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.
Location:
BangaloreBrand:
BcoeTime Type:
Full timeContract Type:
Permanent