Director - Finance - NetApp - Singapore

Job description
Function and Scope of the Position:

Provide accounting policy and process guidelines for the APAC (including India) region, while partnering with Corporate Accounting and Finance functions in driving global consistencies. Lead corporate compliance initiatives for the APAC region, and be the primary contact for US GAAP and Statutory Audit Cycles. Oversee general accounting activities with responsibility for Record to Disclose, Procure to Pay and Payroll as well as SOX and other Compliance initiatives. Work cross functionally with many groups including information technology, administrative and human resources functions to help improve overall accounting processes and internal controls.



APAC Group Consolidation and Review

• Provides oversight for maintaining the integrity of the APAC legal entities financial results and consolidation, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards (both US GAAP and IFRS where appropriate).
• Responsible for the third party BPO for Accounting and Payroll service provider relationships, for the APAC (including India) region.
• Provides accounting policy and process guidelines for the APAC region, while partnering with Corporate Accounting and Finance functions in driving global consistencies.
• Oversees the Shared Service Accounting Operations for the Record to Disclose, Purchase to Pay, and Payroll processes in APAC.
• Actively manages the consolidated balance sheet, including the quarterly APAC balance sheet review with the Corporate Controllership team.
• Partner with corporate treasury and Outsourced vendors to forecast funding requirements, monitor bank account balances and ensure each bank account has the appropriate balances to cover payroll, expense report and outside vendor payments

Audit and Compliance Leadership

• Ensure compliance with corporate financial and governance policies. Provide leadership and coordination for the US Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, APAC legislation, and Internal Audit related activities and reviews.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of financial controls throughout the APAC region.
• Provide leadership and coordination for regional SOX testing activities, and drive completion of regional remediation activities if necessary
• Act as the primary external audit liaison in APAC for USGAAP.
• Monitor external audit fees on a pan-APAC basis.
• Partners with the APAC legal, tax and the Field Finance Functions to manage the implementation of new legal entities across the GEO.
• Partners with the APAC tax function in supporting or implementing improved process’s regarding corporate taxation initiatives.

Process initiatives
• Responsible for leading and assisting in the coordination of in-region transitions on a going forward basis
• Work closely with local finance leaders, process and system owners on initiatives related to payroll and accounting improvements
• Represent APAC finance on the roll out of new process's
• Support continuous improvement to drive efficiency with BPO partners in accounting, payroll and other such activities which may be outsourced in the future

Supervision and Interface with Others:
This position will directly manage the APAC Mangers for SOX, P2P and R2D & Payroll, there will be dotted line reporting for the India R2D and Payroll functions in the short term. Overall the team consists of 10 NetApp employees as well as 2 contractors. This position mangers the Genpact relationship as well as the Tier 2 Accounting relationship as well as Hewitt and Symphony for Payroll services. This position will also have an indirect influence on other finance teams, and will be required to collaborate with a variety of regional and corporate finance colleagues. Often, this position will work to drive projects with cross functional groups. Assignments are often self-initiated and influenced by functional customers.

Desired Skills and Experience
Experience, Knowledge and Skills:
• The ideal candidate for this job would be an intelligent self-starter who likes to get in and take ownership of their area.
• Minimum of 15 years combined public accounting and industry experience, at least 3 years in management level capacity.
• Detail orientation with overall business understanding and perspective. Experience working with US public multi-national company desirable.
• Expertise in technical accounting issues, with post-qualified certification. Previous experience gained should include audit and regulatory reporting including U.S. GAAP reporting as well as some exposure to taxation issues. Knowledge of Commissionaire/Buy-Sell tax structures helpful.
• Experienced and comfortable in fast paced environment with excellent organizational and leadership skills.
• Comfortable in large-scale ERP environments; Oracle 11i experience desirable.
• Experience in utilizing other financial applications such as Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Planning.
• This person needs to drive process improvements in their area and influence changes in others.
• The successful applicant will need to be comfortable with virtual teams (leading people that don’t work for you) and being part of highly cross functional teams and should have:
• Experience participating and/or leading cross functional initiatives and
• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain high-performing virtual teams which implement critical change initiatives across the geography
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and be fluent in the English language.
• Mandarin skills, both verbal and written a very strong plus.
• It is expected that there will be a requirement to travel 25 % of the time in this role

Education & Experience:
- A University Degree, or equivalent experience is required.
- A post-graduate degree is desired.
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and be fluent in the English language.
- Mandarin skills, both verbal and written a very strong plus.
- It is expected that there will be a requirement to travel 25 % of the time in this role

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