APAC Senior Financial Accountant

Natilik is a Global Technology Solutions Partner. Our mission continues to be two-fold; growing a brand that is seen as the industry’s ‘Confident Guide’ sat between the vendors who make technology, and our clients who want to use it to help deliver the outcomes most important to them. We offer products, services, platforms, applications, and expertise to help. We also want to continue to build a business that we can be proud of, with a focus on five stakeholders: clients, people, partners, communities, and shareholders; putting our people at the heart of everything we do. From the small and simple, to the large and complex, we want a life-long partnership, a company our clients and people can rely on.

Reports to: APAC Managing Director

Supported by: Global CFO and UK Finance Director

The APAC Financial Accountant oversees the running the finance operation of our APAC Business, ensuring best practice, operational excellence, clear governance, financial management and financial reporting across the business.

Main activities, duties and tasks…

PEOPLE

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Mentor performance of the APAC Finance and Operations team member(s) in line with finance SLAs.

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Act a point of escalation for People within the APAC team where relevant to assist with Client payment, contracts and/or general Finance queries.

CLIENTS

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Ensure we have the relevant contacts within APAC Clients for Finance to Finance engagement where relevant.

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Ensure we have any relevant escalation paths within APAC Clients for Finance.

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Engage with APAC Client legal representatives if required around contracts and coordinate through global Legal Support in the UK

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Measuring and managing the key metrics around quotations and orders processed including volume of quotes, re-working levels, conversion rates and ageing analysis.

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Work with Vendors around Leasing options where relevant.

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Ensuring we get the sales tax treatment right first time.

PROPOSITION

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Monitor & report on preferred margins.

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Knowledge of tax implications of deals we do and ensure complete awareness across the group.

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Ensure Sales community understand fiscal metrics relevant to the financial health of the APAC Business (including FX and debtor days).

FISCAL

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Own the agreed reporting rhythm to provide a timely analysis of the APAC Business Unit’s performance against budget and, wherever possible, prior year for key metrics covering: Sales performance, Profit and Loss (revenue, CoS, people costs, overheads and Ebitda), Client receivables (including aging), Rebates, Recurring Revenues, including Annual Contract Value (“ACV”) and renewals performance, Projects and Professional Services and Managed Services, On-site and SDM.

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Manage cash, debtors and payments to other organisations in line with our fiscal targets.

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Australia & Singapore Sales tax (GST), FBT, income tax, superannuation, payroll tax reporting

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Managing the APAC Balance Sheet including ensuring the production of monthly reconciliations.

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Agreeing and processing inter-company transactions for orders that touch the APAC entities (currently AU & SG) within the Group.

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Monthly Commission metrics and payment for the APAC team

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Managing monthly Payroll & Expenses

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Work with leaders to put in place fiscal plans each year including producing P&L and cash flow forecasts.

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Be a business partner to the APAC MD.

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Set joint fiscal goals with focus partners and report periodically on performance.

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Own the People and Overhead budget for the APAC team and ensure we are in-line with this.

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Take responsibility for a number of key relationships and providers including the Australia & Singapore banking relationships, audit partners in APAC & APAC Company and Employee Insurances

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Own the reporting rhythms for both Australia and Singapore entities to the relevant tax authorities.

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

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Management of the whole “quote to cash” process, from quotation, through processing sales and purchase orders, invoicing and cash collection.

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Identifying improvement opportunities in the way the quotation process works, and the interactions with the CRM and ERP systems.

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Creating and enforcing an APAC compliance and governance framework.

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Publish and maintain real-time reporting of client’s transactions and relevant financial metrics (global deals).