The Senior Accountant oversees daily accounting operations, ensuring accurate financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and efficient financial processes. Acting as a key link between senior management and the accounting team, this role delivers actionable strategic insights, strengthens internal controls, and upholds the integrity of all financial data.
Key Responsibilities
· Accounting Close & Financial Reporting: Lead monthly, quarterly, and year-end closes with the Shared Services Center to deliver timely, accurate managerial reporting packages.
· Retail Financial Operations & Controls: Manage revenue recognition, sales aggregation, and reconciliations across retail channels (malls, department stores, O2O). Oversee store expenses, fixed assets, IFRS 16 lease accounting, and inventory stocktakes.
· Treasury & Working Capital: Monitor daily cash operations, optimize working capital efficiency, and build cash flow forecasts to maintain healthy liquidity.
· Tax, Audit & Risk Management: Lead statutory tax compliance (CIT, VAT/GST, WHT), Transfer Pricing, and CbCR requirements. Coordinate internal and external audits to enforce group internal controls.
· Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner across business units to automate routine accounting functions, optimize operational workflows, and deliver ad-hoc analysis for APAC Regional and Group Finance.
[Qualifications]
· Experience: 6–10+ years of progressive accounting experience in an MNC, ideally within Retail or F&B.
· Technical Expertise: Strong command of IFRS/local GAAP and internal controls (e.g., SOX). Hands-on experience with IFRS 16 and retail revenue recognition is preferred.
· Technical Skills: Deep knowledge of end-to-end accounting, treasury, and tax compliance (including Transfer Pricing and audit management).
· Systems: Proficient in major ERPs (SAP, NetSuite) and advanced MS Excel (modeling and large-dataset reconciliations).
· Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
· Languages: Professional fluency in English and Korean for effective collaboration with local, regional (APAC), and global teams.
· Soft Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, proactive issue resolution, and excellent stakeholder management.
Skills Required
- 6-8+ years of progressive accounting experience in a multinational company
- Strong command of IFRS or local GAAP and internal control frameworks such as SOX
- Experience with end-to-end accounting processes, treasury, and tax compliance
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field
- Professional fluency in written and spoken English and Korean
- Proficiency in major ERP systems such as SAP, NetSuite, or JD Edwards
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modeling and large-dataset reconciliation
- Transfer pricing, audit management, and statutory tax compliance experience
- Retail or F&B sector experience
- Hands-on IFRS 16 lease accounting and retail revenue recognition expertise
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and stakeholder-management skills
What We Do
CHAGEE is a leading international tea beverage company guided by the vision to connect everyone through a good cup of tea. The brand first started in 2017 in the hometown of tea, Yunnan, China, and has since expanded to over 6,000+ stores globally. As we embrace innovation and introduce a modern twist to traditional tea culture, we remain committed in preserving the true tea taste and only use fresh dairy and real tea leaves in all our beverages. Our teas also contain 0 creamer and 0 trans-fatty acids.
