Finance Manager

Key Responsibilities

Finance & Accounting

• Lead overall financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, and financial reporting.
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and management reports.
• Manage month-end and year-end closing processes in line with local and corporate accounting policies.
• Analyze financial performance and provide recommendations to senior leadership.
• Monitor working capital, costs, financial controls, and financial risks.
• Manage relationships with auditors, banks, and other external stakeholders.

Tax Compliance & Strategy

• Ensure full compliance with Indonesian tax regulations and statutory requirements.
• Oversee preparation and filing of VAT, withholding tax, income tax, and other applicable tax returns.
• Lead and coordinate tax audits, assessments, and responses to tax authorities.
• Work with external tax advisors and government agencies when required.
• Provide tax planning and advisory support while maintaining compliance.
• Monitor changes in Indonesian tax laws and assess their impact on the business.
• Identify tax risks and opportunities and advise management on tax liabilities and business strategies.
• Coordinate with outsourced tax agencies on periodic tax reviews and tax preparation.

Business Partnering & Leadership

• Partner with senior management by providing financial and tax insights to support business decisions.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the finance team while maintaining strong financial controls and accountability.
• Manage expectations across internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with regional finance teams on intercompany transactions, transfer pricing, and global finance policies.
• Collaborate with Operations, Supply Chain, HR, Legal, and other teams to support business initiatives and ensure tax considerations are embedded into business decisions.
• Provide guidance to local and regional leadership on financial and tax risks and opportunities.

Finance Projects & Process Improvement

• Support the annual budgeting process and monthly, weekly, and daily cash flow forecasting.
• Identify and implement improvements to finance processes, procedures, and controls.
• Act as the local finance contact for APAC/Global requirements relating to tax, financial controls, Group Audit, and GAAP compliance.
• Support ad-hoc finance and tax projects assigned by senior leadership.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Essential

• Strong finance and accounting background with extensive experience in financial management.
• Strong knowledge of Indonesia tax regulations, tax compliance, and tax processes.
• Proven experience managing tax audits, tax assessments, and tax disputes.
• Strong understanding of IFRS and Indonesian/local accounting standards.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, financial reporting, and month-end closing.
• Strong knowledge of intercompany transactions and transfer pricing.
• Ability to identify financial and tax risks and provide practical recommendations to management.
• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering skills.
• Experience leading and mentoring finance teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work effectively with regional/global finance teams and external advisors.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial and tax matters clearly.

Preferred

• Big 4 experience.
• Experience working with external tax consultants.
• Multinational company experience.
• Cross-border tax exposure.
• Experience with transfer pricing and intercompany transactions.
• Understanding of non-OPEX classification.
• Experience with tax dispute resolution.
• CPA qualification is strongly preferred.

Ideal Mindset & Temperament

• Strategic but hands-on and detail-oriented.
• Commercially minded with strong business-partnering ability.
• Proactive and solutions-oriented.
• Calm and resilient under pressure.
• Strong integrity and compliance-first approach.
• Collaborative, decisive, and accountable.
• Adaptable and forward-thinking.
• Diplomatic and professional.
• Patient, disciplined, and diligent.
• Firm with the facts, but soft with people.