Job Openings Finance Controller, Asia Pacific

Hong Kong

Job Overview

The Asia Pacific Finance Controller is responsible for overseeing the financial operations and reporting for Hoffman’s Asia Pacific. They serve as a strategic business partner to the leadership team, providing financial guidance and insights to support decision-making and drive business performance.

Knowledge of Agency Life/Clients/Technology

  • Solid knowledge of finance and accounting
  • Exceptional leadership skills and the ability to communicate with team members and prospective candidates
  • Understand our business objectives and the nature of our clients
  • Possess tactical skills and motivation to grow in all Finance-related areas
  • Industry knowledge related to PR, IMC, and Digital
  • Be open-minded and willing to learn the inner workings of a PR and IMC agency
  • Bear excellent analytical and negotiation skills with good leadership
  • Provide business insights or best practice via narratives or visual formats based on available data or reports from the Agency

Major Responsibilities:

  • Oversee the day-to-day financial operations and accounting functions for the Asia Pacific business unit or region.
  • Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis, to provide financial insights and support strategic decision-making.
  • Manage the regional finance team and provide leadership, guidance, and professional development.
  • Implement and maintain robust financial policies, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance with accounting standards, tax regulations, and corporate finance requirements.
  • Collaborate with leadership team to understand operational and strategic priorities, and translate these into effective financial plans and performance metrics.
  • Conduct financial and operational reviews to identify improvement opportunities and drive cost optimization initiatives.
  • Liaise with corporate finance on global consolidation, treasury management, tax planning, and other centralized finance functions.
  • Act as a strategic business partner to leadership team, providing financial insights and decision support.
  • Represent the regional finance function in global finance governance and process improvement initiatives.

Key Working Relationships:

Reports to CFO and EVP of Global Operations

Key Internal/External Relationships:

  • APAC Leadership Team
  • Regional Finance Team
  • Local Finance Teams
  • APAC Operations Teams (Finance, Admin, and IT colleagues)
  • CPA; Finance associations and networks

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
  • A minimum of eight years of progressive finance and accounting experience, preferably in a multinational company
  • Strong leadership and people management skills
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and financial modeling abilities
  • In-depth knowledge of financial reporting, accounting standards, and compliance requirements
  • Fluency in English and preferably other regional languages
  • Experience working in the Asia Pacific region is highly desirable

About Us

We're an integrated communications consultancy that specializes in solving hard problems — the tougher, the better — for tech companies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we’ve established a global infrastructure tuned for the tech industry. Toward this end, we operate offices in Boston, Beijing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, London, Munich, Paris, Portland, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Shenzhen, Taipei and Tokyo.

We’re a company that values diversity and inclusion. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all individuals irrespective of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability status, veteran status or any other characteristic.

For more information, visit https://www.hoffman.com/.

HOW TO APPLY

If you are interested in this position, please click Apply Now to learn more and upload your resume.

We will contact all shortlisted candidates from [email protected]
(our HR system).