Company Description
We are SGS – the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. Our 93,000 employees operate a network of 2,600 offices and laboratories, working together to enable a better, safer and more interconnected world.
Job Description
Primary Responsibilities:
The Record to Report (R2R) Supervisor leads the day-to-day delivery of R2R operations, ensuring accurate and timely completion of month-end close, reconciliations, reporting, controls, and other key activities in line with SLAs, KPIs, policies, and governance requirements. Reporting to the R2R Manager, the role provides operational oversight, supports issue resolution, and ensures risks, dependencies, and process gaps are proactively managed.
The Supervisor also supports finance transformation by driving process maturity, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across R2R. This includes strengthening compliance and controls, improving efficiency through standardization and automation, supporting team performance, and building a culture of accountability, collaboration, and process excellence.
Reporting Line:
Record to Report Manager
Specific Responsibilities:
- Lead and oversee end-to-end R2R operations across in-scope countries, including general accounting, manual journal entries, cash and bank reconciliations, intercompany, fixed assets, inventory accounting, month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, external reporting, and management reporting.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant delivery of R2R activities in accordance with agreed SLAs, KPIs, Group Financial Manual, accounting policies, internal controls, and governance requirements.
- Review and approve key accounting outputs, including journals, reconciliations, schedules, supporting documents, and open item analysis, ensuring issues are properly resolved or escalated.
- Coordinate month-end close activities, monitor progress against deadlines, manage dependencies with affiliates and cross-functional teams, and drive timely completion of deliverables.
- Drive operational excellence by identifying process gaps, recurring issues, control risks, and improvement opportunities, and by implementing sustainable actions to improve quality, efficiency, and compliance.
- Support finance transformation and process maturity initiatives, including standardization, automation, dashboard adoption, performance reporting, and implementation of global standard processes.
- Lead, coach, and support the R2R team by allocating work, monitoring performance, managing capacity, supporting training and development, and reinforcing accountability and ownership.
- Serve as the first point of escalation for operational issues within the R2R process and coordinate with stakeholders, GPOs, affiliates, O2C, P2P, and other teams to resolve issues and complete deliverables.
- Prepare, monitor, and communicate operational KPIs, performance reports, risks, and improvement actions to the R2R Manager and relevant stakeholders.
- Promote a positive, collaborative, and high-performance team culture aligned with company values, continuous improvement, employee engagement, and work-life balance.
Qualifications
Profile:
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; CPA or equivalent professional qualification is preferred but not required.
- 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in Record to Report, general accounting, financial reporting, or shared services operations.
- Solid background in month-end close, balance sheet reconciliation, journal entry review, financial reporting, and internal controls.
- Experience in shared services set-up, process migration, stabilization, or finance transformation is an advantage.
- Prior experience in supervising or leading accounting teams, including workload management, performance follow-up, and capability development.
Required Skill:
- Strong leadership, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to translate objectives into clear priorities, actions, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Good communication skills, with the ability to explain issues, risks, and recommendations clearly.
- Ability to manage deadlines, competing priorities, and operational pressure during close periods.
- Collaborative working style with the ability to engage cross-functional teams and affiliates.
- Proficiency in MS Excel; knowledge of ERP systems such as Oracle Business Suite is an advantage.
Additional Information
Based in Alabang, Muntinlupa, Philippines