Financial Controller, KONE South East Asia (KSEA)
Reports to: Finance Director, KONE South East Asia
Location: Malaysia or Thailand
Overview of role purpose & scope:
Owner of financial integrity, reporting quality, compliance & related transformation programs for KSEA legal entities
- Ensures financial reporting across all countries is consistently accurate, compliant with IFRS and statutory requirements, and delivered in a timely manner
- Serves as the primary interface to external auditors, authorities, and key finance stakeholders, ensuring effective coordination and alignment
- Provides clear, actionable financial insights to the Finance Director, Business Controllers, and business leadership to support informed decision-making
- Drives the implementation, standardization, and continuous improvement of global finance processes and internal control frameworks
Key responsibilities for this role
- Own KSEA financial reporting integrity, ensuring accurate and timely IFRS, statutory and management reporting across all legal entities.
- Lead balance sheet governance, internal controls, compliance and audit processes across the region.
- Act as the primary finance interface to auditors, authorities, financial institutions and key external stakeholders.
- Own finance process governance across R2R, P2P, Treasury, Tax and Internal Controls, while driving transformation aiming to standardization, automation and continuous improvement.
- Drive consistency and control across KSEA entities and support structural changes impacting finance operations, reporting and governance.
- Provide accounting expertise and financial insights to business leadership on regulatory, tax, treasury, FX and other key financial matters.
Level of decision making and authority
- Accountable for KSEA financial reporting integrity, accounting treatments, statutory compliance and financial governance.
- Owns the Financial Controlling operating model and key finance processes across KSEA.
- Approval authority for critical journals, reconciliations, statutory submissions and selected financial transactions.
- Acts as a key advisor to business leadership, providing guidance and challenge on accounting, compliance, treasury, cash flow and FX-related decisions
Key competencies and experience
- Proven experience from a similar position with group-level closing responsibilities across several countries
- Extensive audit, tax, and statutory reporting experience across several international markets, with direct ownership of audit processes and external stakeholder management
- Strong financial governance, internal controls, and compliance track record with IFRS, local GAAP and tax knowledge
- Proven capability of process discipline & standardization
- Demonstrated leadership of international finance teams and complex transformation programs across countries
- High integrity and compliance standards with ability for judgement and accountability
- Excellent English skills combined with strong collaboration capability across matrix organization - with ability to influence and challenge stakeholders
At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience in a similar financial controller position with group-level closing responsibilities across several countries
- Extensive audit, tax, and statutory reporting experience across several international markets
- Direct ownership of audit processes and external stakeholder management
- Strong financial governance, internal controls, and compliance experience
- Knowledge of IFRS, local GAAP, and taxation
- Proven capability in process discipline and standardization
- Experience leading international finance teams and complex transformation programs across countries
- High integrity, compliance standards, sound judgment, and accountability
- Excellent English skills and strong collaboration ability in a matrix organization
- Ability to influence and challenge stakeholders
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
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