Company in brief

Our client’s business is to develop, manufacture and market metal powders on a global market. They offer metal powder solutions that create new business and profitable growth for their partners and customers, who are component manufacturers that supply various industries.
Our client established itself in Shanghai in 1994 initially entered into a joint venture, but after a few years it bought the JV partner and began importing raw materials. It invested in a new state-of-the-art mixing station, which produces only for Chinese market, and then expanded by building a new technical centre for training and development of customer.

Position: Financial Controller
Report to: President of China
Subordinates: 3
Location: Qingpu, Shanghai
Languages: Good written and verbal English

Main Responsibility

• Take responsibilities of financial reports and the activities of financial staffs
• Prepare the forecast
• Credit management 
• Internal control
• Liaise with third parties
• Supervision of financial activities. Review monthly financial statements of internal and external reporting
• Manage cash flow and line of credit to ensure liquidity and efficient usage of capital
• Supervise local tax declaration report within stipulated timeline and ensure compliance of local laws and regulations; give suggestion and advice to the management for new local tax regulations those will bring benefit to the company
• Keep a check on monthly receivables activity while making sure that that billing, collection, and reporting activities are carried out per specified dates
• In consideration of both Group and local accounting principle; in brief: inventory management; AR management; inter-company transaction; stock provisions; tax and deferred tax
• Involve in ERP system implementation; support and advice of new ERP solutions for internal control and management
• Build up teamwork spirit and create open communication in specific team and lead the team to achieve targets
• Interface with corporate on finance and accounting issues
• Develop and maintain good relationship with bank, tax bureau, SAFE
• Preparation of monthly management report pack, quarterly forecast
• Provide guidance regarding financial related matters, coordination with Global information reporting system
• Communicate with financial institution, all government departments, tax bureau and external auditors

Desired profile of the candidate

Education:Bachelor degree in finance or accounting, CPA qualification is required
Language:Good written and verbal English

Professional experience and personal characteristics:

• More than 8 years of relevant experience, manufacturing environment at foreign-invested enterprise  is preferred
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to lead
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and organize work
• Strong interpersonal skills and teamwork spirit
• Drive and act with speed and accuracy
• Ability to deal with stress
• Think in a structured, logical way
• Communicative – openly communicate challenges
• Social competence
• Anticipate problems – be a proactive problem solver
• Competitive, independent and takes initiative