About this role
The Senior Accountant reports to the APAC Accounting Manager and coordinates internal and external audit activities across 10+ legal entities in the APAC region. The role ensures timely, accurate audit support, effective issue resolution, compliance and consistent documentation while partnering with G.A.S APAC team, Internal Audit, and External Audit.
• Coordinate APAC Audits including internal audits, group audits and local statutory audits across multiple legal entities and countries.
• Drive audit process standardization, evidence management and audit continuous improvement initiatives across all APAC entities.
50% Internal and External Audit Coordination
• Coordinate annual and interim internal, group and statutory audit plans across assigned APAC entities.
• Maintain audit request lists, calendars and responsibility matrices; monitor milestones and escalate delays or risks.
• Prepare and trace audit schedules, account reconciliations, roll-forwards and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate responses to audit questions and obtain clear accounting explanations from functional teams.
• Support walkthroughs, sample testing and financial-statement reviews, including follow-up on exceptions.
• Support each function analyze audit adjustments and control observations, assessing root causes and potential cross-entity impact.
• Provide practical guidance to local Finance teams on audit evidence, documentation and accounting support. (centralize documents within APAC)
30% Standard Monitoring
• Act as the central coordinator among APAC G.A.S, Internal Auditors, External Auditors and global financial reporting and technical accounting team.
• Research and study newly‑released or updated accounting standards, and industry best practices under IFRS and APAC local statutory frameworks;
• Support preliminary impact assessment and knowledge preparation for upcoming accounting‑standard (US GAAP) adoptions, partnering with global technical accounting team to align regional understanding and documentation readiness
20% Audit Process Improvement
• Standardize audit templates, evidence repositories and recurring procedures across APAC entities.
• Identify opportunities to improve audit readiness, data quality, documentation and control efficiency.
• Coordinate remediation plans with process owners and validate that corrective actions address root causes.
• Other ad-hoc