Team Leader

**Your Job**:
You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In your role as **Team Leader - Supply Chain Accounting**, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

The incumbent will manage the cost accounting function and processes for the Asia Pacific region and provide leadership to ensure the function meets the reporting requirements of management and shareholders, through the provision of timely reports and analysis which accurately reflects the performance and integrity of the Mill operations and product costs.

The incumbent is responsible for managing the organization, processes, procedures, and systems necessary for accurately calculating, recording and reporting on manufacturing costs and overheads. The cost accounting function is typified by a series of stringent reporting requirements that must be achieved. Within these constraints, the incumbent is required to prepare actual and forecast results, cost analysis, and monthly management reports for Mill, Divisional and Corporate customers.

This role supports the GBS APAC to effectively deliver business strategy, identify and drive value creation initiatives, support employee engagement initiatives, identify control and compliance gaps and lead disruptive ideas in the journey to Intelligent Business Services.

**About Us**:
People have looked to **Kimberly-Clark** brands for more than 150 years and today we're proud to help over a billion people around the world cope, laugh, love and live every day. From the best nappies and baby wipes to the softest tissues, to the best supplies for business, we are constantly searching for new ways to make life better for our consumers, our customers and our planet.

Our leading consumer brands like the Kleenex, Huggies, VIVA, U by Kotex, Poise, Depend brands improve the lives of people around the world.
- Kimberly-Clark proudly leads the way in providing better care for a better world. _

**Led by Purpose. Driven by You.**

**Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities**:

- Direct and co-ordinate the Global Business Services - Cost Accounting Team in the preparation of monthly results, forecasts, revaluations, and maintenance of costing systems for supported sites.
- Direct and co-ordinate the Global Business Services - Cost Accounting Team in the preparation of transfer prices.
- Implement and conform to applicable cost accounting policies, and instructions in accordance with Corporate Financial Instructions, internal control procedures, and generally accepted accounting principles.
- Take ownership of cost accounting process related policies and procedures and ensure maintenance and enforcement in all units.
- Manage and proactively work and collaborate with internal customers to ensure the type and quality of services provided support them in the achievement of their business objectives, and efficiently provide the essential administrative support services to the organization.
- Manage the identification and recommendations to improve financial and internal controls and other business processes and practices.
- Develop employees to their full potential through coaching, appropriate training, education, goal setting, and career development.

**Essential Requirements**:

- Degree in Accounting or professional accounting qualifications (CIMA/ACCA/CPA/CA).
- Minimum of 7-8 years business experience and minimum 3 years experiences in people management.
- Experience in interpreting and implementing accounting standards.
- Experience in managing transitions and process improvement projects.
- Strong inter-personal and communication skills necessary to maintain a strong working relationship with senior management and other functions within KC.
- High level of skill in oral and written English communication.
- Good command of any other Asian language would be an advantage.

**About You**:
You’re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

**What’s on offer**:
Our Kimberly-Clark employees receive a competitive salary and incentives as well as access to a fantastic ra