Sr. Manager, Controllership India

Chemistry that Matters™

A career at SABIC provides you with an opportunity to leave a lasting positive impact to the world and yourself. From excellent health and well-being benefits to our comprehensive learning programs. We offer a wide range of benefits and offerings that recognize that our people have unique motivations and ambitions. It’s all about matching what matters to you with what matters to us. Let’s explore what matters!

As one of the world’s largest diversified chemical companies, we activate the power of human capital to address society’s future challenges. Through partnerships, we enable life-saving medical innovations and help fight world hunger. We are driving the circular economy for the benefit of communities and our planet through sustainability initiatives, such as our TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio.  Our success is built upon the collective excellence of our 32,000 employees in 50+ countries.  Our values – Inspire, Engage, Create, and Deliver – are the foundation of our success. To learn more about these and how we strive to Be the Impact, click here.

Our purpose is "Chemistry that Matters". This is what drives us to do what we do. "Chemistry" goes beyond applying science and technology to enhance the supply of essential materials to the world. It is how we work, to build long-lasting relationships of trust. “What Matters” is making a meaningful impact for the world – through the customers and communities we collaborate with, so that we succeed and grow together.

It is all about matching what matters to you with what matters to us. We are mindful about the importance of the team we are building and how our team members impact to our culture.   We believe that good ideas come from anywhere, being inclusive to diverse perspectives is stimulating, encourages innovation and is critical to our mission. Let us explore this together!

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Job Summary

The role is the lead of Controllership Team for India.  India contributes ~6% of SABIC revenue (about ~2 billion) and is known for its fast-changing and complex regulatory landscape, demanding local government and heavy burden of compliance filings.    The role is expected to act as a mini-CFO for India region with following key deliverables:

• to be the finance business partner to India leadership teams and support RoA controller for its business partner role in RoA region (when India included)
• to provide governance and controllership assurance to the business
• to be the focal person of finance in front of internal governance bodies (e.g. board of directors) and external authorities and stakeholders

How You Can Be the Impact

• Strategic Contribution:
  • Provide governance and controllership assurance to business in India to ensure SABIC economic interest protected, financial reporting standards and SABIC/local compliance requirement followed.
  • Provide business partnering to board of directors and India leadership with timely insightful business analysis to drive meaningful business decisions
  • Participate the strategic projects in India and ensure integrated financial insight and compliance requirement captured in the project
  • Being the representative of Finance to India, lead and coordinate all finance teams to form one finance view to business
  • Support RoA Controller in his/her strategic role of contribution to the business RoA region (when India included)"                                                                  
• Governance and Controllership
  • Lead the internal control and global/statutory finance compliance process in India and the management of finance risks to India leadership
  • Understand the complex and fast-changing regulatory landscape in India, take the lead to ensure the regulatory compliance of India business and translate the regulatory requirement into business                                                 
• Legal Entity Business Partnering
  • Lead and Represent Finance to the governance body in India (4 legal entities in total) and provide necessary finance business partnering support
  • Lead and Provide financial advisory to the leadership of India
  • Accommodate complementary structure to EPM and liaise with regional management, analyze and track legal entity performance                                                          
• Financial Closing and Reporting
  • Lead the process to provide quality assurance for the financials of the entities of India
  • Lead the process to ensure on-time and high-quality group and statutory financial reporting, including external auditors' verification
  • Monitor the financial operation and closing process and provide necessary advise and support                                                 
• Finance Projects:
  • Lead and Support global corporate finance porjects in India (e.g. GEM review, Scout and etc)
  • Lead controllership enhancement projects in India                                                           
• Finance Representative and Stakeholder management
  • Represent Finance in India for external authorities and stakeholders and maintain healthy relationship
  • Represent Corporate Finance in India for internal cross-function teams
  • Be the controllership gate keeper and perform required finance authority activities (e.g. financial sign-off, contract review, company chop and etc)           
• People management
  • Manage the performance of the India controllership team, manage necessary coaching and trainings to develop the team
  • Recruit, develop and retain a healthy talent pool for India controllership team
  • Participate regional talent committee to drive the healthy growth and development of regional finance talents

What Matters to SABIC

• 15+ years working experience in Finance and Accounting including general ledger closing and legal entity reporting
• 10+ years in management position
• Manufacturing experiences is requried, Chemical Industry is a plus
• Minimum university degree in accounting and finance
• Completion of post-graduate executive programs in areas which include CA,CMA, preferably CA.
• Broad and excellent knowledge of fiscal /legal / governance requirements and business processes
• Broad and excellent knowledge of business administration/accounting requirements (IFRS)
• Experiences of managing finance talents in multi-year strategic projects
• Job experiences with Big 4 firms                                                    

We are proud to be a diverse and an equal opportunity employer .We are fully committed to a culture of respect and inclusion.