Group Financial Controller

About the role

LedgerLine Advisory runs outsourced finance functions for around 120 Hong Kong companies and, in doing so, has quietly become one itself: three legal entities, two currencies, a Shenzhen service centre and a partnership profit share that nobody currently models properly.

This is a new role. Grace Yau, our managing partner, has been carrying group finance alongside running the firm and it no longer scales. You would take the whole function — reporting, treasury, budgeting, partner distributions and the audit — and answer to the partnership rather than to a layer of management.

Expect the first six months to be unglamorous: chart of accounts rationalisation, a proper consolidation, and getting month-end from eighteen working days down to eight. After that comes the interesting part, which is pricing our engagements against what they actually cost to serve.

What you'll do

• Own the group's monthly consolidation, management accounts and partner reporting pack across three entities.
• Lead the annual budget and quarterly reforecast, including headcount and utilisation modelling for 140 staff.
• Manage treasury: multi-currency cash positioning, banking relationships and facility covenants.
• Run the statutory audit and tax compliance for all group entities, plus the transfer pricing between them.
• Rebuild engagement profitability reporting so partners can see recovery by client rather than only by team.
• Manage a team of four, two of whom sit in the Shenzhen service centre.
• Present to the partnership monthly and answer for variances without a slide deck to hide behind.

What we're looking for

• HKICPA, ACCA or CPA Australia qualified with at least ten years' post-qualification experience.
• Track record as a financial controller or head of finance in a multi-entity, multi-currency group.
• Strong consolidation and HKFRS reporting capability — you will build it, not review it.
• Experience leading a statutory audit from the client side and closing it on time.
• Business-level English and Cantonese, with Mandarin for the Shenzhen team.
• Comfortable with ambiguity in year one, because much of this is being built rather than maintained.

Nice to have

• Professional services or partnership accounting background.
• Experience implementing an ERP or consolidation tool in a mid-sized business.
• Exposure to Singapore statutory reporting requirements.

What you get

• Discretionary bonus plus a profit-share element after year one
• 22 days' annual leave and six weeks' notice both ways
• Medical, dental and family cover
• Flexible hours outside the month-end window
• A seat at the partnership meeting from month one