Regional Financial Controller

**Role**: Regional Financial Controller

**Location**: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

**A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE**:
The Regional Financial Controller will report to the Regional Finance Director & manage finance teams in the APAC region. Leading and supporting the finance team and work cohesively together to achieve goals of the Group.

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**:
Key responsibilities and accountabilities:
**Financial Reporting and Control**:

- Ensuring timely accurate management financial reporting for all markets.
- Co-ordination of ad-hoc financial requests as required by global and regional finance.
- Ensuring financial controls are sufficient, in place and maintained in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and the Group's company policies and procedures.
- Improving planning processes and ensuring finance best practices spread through the region.
- Monitoring and supporting all markets' statutory compliance and driving strategic balance sheet management.
- Monitoring the regions client profitability and prepare client P&L.
- Ensuring the APAC region maintain a healthy working capital.
- Assisting the Regional FD in remuneration-related calculations and Regional Intercompany Recharges.

**Financial Planning**
- Reviewing and managing local market budget and quarterly forecast process.
- Supporting local finance team to work with local management teams on strategic plans to ensure revenue targets and profit margins are met.

**Operations**
- Review monthly and quarterly KPIs of local finance team, such as net working capital, aging reports, management reports to ensure compliance with targets.
- Work with local business teams and local finance teams to resolve day-to-day operational issues.
- Recruit and on-board new local Finance Managers/Directors and manage their career development, training and welfare.
- Keep Regional Finance informed of issues facing the local operations as well as risks and upside opportunities.
- Perform other ad-hoc duties as assigned by Regional FD.
- Work with whole Finance team to create a best-in-class function.

**WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE**:

- Degree in Finance or Accounting.
- At least 8 years of relevant experience.
- Experience in an advertising agency will be an advantage
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral, able to engage with people at all levels both internally and externally.
- Ability to work accurately with attention to detail, multi-task and meet tight deadlines.
- Good organisational and problem-solving skills.
- A good team worker, willing to be flexible and take on a range of activities and looking to learn and develop within the role.
- Highly IT literate with sound MS Office skills.
- High Standard of integrity, confidentiality and discretion.

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**A LITTLE BIT ABOUT US**:
OLIVER provides clients with dedicated agencies. We do this because we believe the traditional agency model is not fit for the speed of modern marketing. Businesses want, and rightly demand, the same quality of strategic and creative thinking the traditional agency provides, but at a speed that befits how they now work.

The traditional agency outside-in model means that huge quantities of time are wasted in the back and forth and linear processes between agencies and clients. OLIVER agencies come to the client, live inside their office and solve their problems collaboratively.

OLIVER agencies are strategic and creative, whilst being agile and adaptive. They cover the full range of integrated marketing, but at the speed that businesses now demand. We allow our clients to work in real time. Creating better work, at pace.

**OUR VALUES AND HOW TO LIVE THEM**:
**Ambition** - you look for opportunities to deliver greater value to those around you.

**Imagination** - you identify a range of solutions to problems.

**Inclusion - **to be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations.

**Inspiration** - you lead by example and encourage others to do the same.

**Learning **- you have excellent listening skills that helps you to learn from our clients and those around you.

**Results** - you accept responsibility for your actions.
- We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. _We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far reaching action on DE&I in the sector. _We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle._

Inside Ideas Group and its' affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any