Senior Manager - Accounting (9-month contract)

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Manage and oversee a portfolio of companies and its daily accounting operations
• Participate in the ongoing development of accounting policies, systems, and procedures.
• Design, review, and maintain rolling short term cash flow forecasts across all entities.
• Optimize cash flow strategies, debt servicing setups, and profit repatriation mechanisms across corporate entities.
• Direct equity injection arrangement, dividend distributions, intercompany loans, and treasury cash pooling to optimize liquidity and debt service capabilities across the portfolio.
• Review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial packages prepared by team members.
• Design and execute overarching tax strategies across all operating companies, joint ventures etc.
• Structure complex land acquisitions, divestments, M&A deals, IPO, asset/equity injections, and cross-border capital transfers to optimize tax efficiency and minimize exposure.
• Oversee end-to-end statutory tax compliance (CIT, VAT, PIT, WHT, transfer pricing, land/property taxes...) and manage transfer pricing documentation across multi-entity portfolios.
• Lead high-stakes negotiations with government tax authorities, handle tax audits, resolve complex tax disputes, and secure advance tax rulings.
• Establish and govern internal financial control frameworks, revenue recognition models, operational accounting policies, construction in progress (CIP) recognition standard across operating/developing projects.
• Act as the strategic tax advisor to the CFO and other relevant teams on deal pipelines, lease structures, and strategic joint ventures.
• Establish robust Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) practices to continuously identify, quantify, and mitigate tax and operational accounting risks