Job Description

Overall governance?
• Cascade WHA Group’s vision, direction, strategy and targets into accounting goals, targets and initiatives as well as review, validate, gain approval on, and communicate the function’s goals, strategy, targets, and initiatives, to ensure that work optimally contributes to company’s sustainable growth and steering towards being a tech company.
• Propose, periodically revise and gain approval on accounting policies, standards, and guidelines, to ensure enablement to business operations, efficient operation and alignment with relevant rules & regulations.
• Approve/Veto revision of work processes and procedures to ensure optimization of business operations.
• Provide recommendations to the Group CEO, BH CEOs, board of directors, top management team and other relevant parties regarding accounting work, to enable and advance WHA Group’s and all business hub’s targets.
• Cultivate capabilities & empower teams and the next generation of leaders through provision of guidance and utilization of coaching techniques to engender a continuous improvement environment, and to ensure capabilities readiness.

Function-related accountabilities
• Develop, harmonize, drive the execution and review short, medium and long-term strategic roadmaps for accounting, in areas of accounts payable, accounts receivable, and tax planning & optimization, to drive achievement and alignment with functional goals while ensuring the practicality in execution.
• Formulate accounting organizational strategies by contributing accounting information, analysis, and recommendations for strategic thinking and direction, and establishing functional objectives in line with organizational objectives.
• Formulate accounting operational strategies by evaluating trends, establishing critical measurements, determining production, productivity, quality, and customer-service strategies, designing systems, accumulating resources, resolving problems, and implementing change.
• Formulate principles and practices in areas of financial accounting and tax planning & optimization, to ensure accurate and transparent works that are in compliance with relevant rules and regulations.
• Lead the development of periodic reports for distribution to the overall company, Board of Directors, and senior management, to ensure transparency, effectiveness, insight sharing, and enablement towards WHA Group’s and all of the business hubs’ business operation.
• Lead the identification of related initiatives/projects, prioritization, and assignment of responsible parties, as well as monitor the execution of accounting initiatives/projects (including transformation initiatives), to ensure synergy and integration across relevant stakeholders, and ensure achievement of initiatives'/projects’ objectives.
• Approve/Veto operational plans of units under supervision to ensure work operations optimization and improvement opportunity.
• Lead the coordination with all units across all business hubs to ensure vital information is well received, and to further process for disclosure to SEC/SET in a timely manner.
• Establish and sustain mutually beneficial relationships and networks with internal and external stakeholders such as SEC, RD, BOI, and IEA, to ensure effective and rapid cooperation.
• Keep abreast of accounting best practices and up-to-date rules, laws, and regulations to enable related work and propose solutions that fit with WHA Group’s context to the top management teams to reinforce operational performance.
• Develop, propose, obtain approval, monitor, and optimize utilization of resources and budget against company’s budget, to ensure optimization and the right prioritization of resources and budget.