Finance Officer

We are seeking for an experienced accountant who will be responsible to provide accounting, financial reporting, regulatory reporting, and tax reporting. His/ her main responsibilities are as follows:

Financial accounting & controls: 

• Perform daily accounting function and month end closing.
• Perform the account certification controls to ensure accounting data quality.
• Liaison with offshored teams and monitor quality of accounting functions.
• Support semi-annually and annual statutory audit by providing correct financial information promptly.

Regulatory reporting & watch: 

• Perform regulatory reporting with accuracy.
• Discuss with finance managers if there is any new requirement or change and identify potential impact.
• Implement new regulatory changes in accordance with FSC, TWSE, TPEx, TSA requirements.
• Support TWSE ad hoc request or inspection by providing correct financial information in a timely manner.

Financial steering & ALM:

• Prepare monthly financial.  
• Monitor daily financial information to ensure no breach on internal threshold and regulatory limit.
  Tax
• Prepare CIT report filing, substitute transfer pricing report, GBRT and W/H tax calculation and filing.
• Reconcile SGPM Taiwan warrants’ P&L, and SGSHK Taiwan warrants TP retrocession subject to Taiwan CIT.
• Provide information for tax queries from tax authority if any.

Transversal topics: 

• Support finance mangers to implement target finance processes.
• Perform permanent supervision controls on time and in a proper manner, declare in permanent supervision tool.  
• Support any new initiatives and ideas to improve the deliverables of the Finance team.  

• Experienced knowledge on TWSE regulatory reporting.
• Knowledge and experiences in agency-broker business.
• Knowledge on Taiwan tax rules.
• Knowledge on IFRSs accounting standard.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with proficiency in written and spoken English and Chinese.
• Able to work under pressure and multi-tasking skills.
• Organization skills & attention to details.
• Proficiency in MS Office tools & PowerPoint.
• University graduate in Finance or Accounting.
• Professional accounting qualification.
• At least 3 years of relevant experiences in Finance Department in agency-broker industry.
• Taiwan Securities senior agent license. 

Behavioral Skills:

• Team Spirit - Open mindset: I listen and share my views and my expertise in an open mode
• Innovation - Technology: I adopt new technologies in the solutions and projects I work on
• Responsibility - Risk awareness: I am constantly on the lookout for risks
• Commitment - Sustainability: I strive to develop my skills and knowledge

Company Description:

Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Founded in 1864, we have been playing a vital role in the economy for over 150 years. With more than 133,000 employees based in 61 countries worldwide, we accompany 32 million clients throughout the world on a daily basis. Based on a diversified universal banking model, the Group combines financial strength with a strategy of sustainable growth. 
ASIA-PACIFIC (ASIA), as one of the Business Units of Societe Generale, operates in 12 locations across the Asia Pacific region, employing over 2,500 employees with the regional headquarter located in Hong Kong. Our activities here are centered on Societe Generale's Global Banking & Investor Solutions pole (GBIS), a major growth engine for the Group and a key pillar of Societe Generale's universal banking model. Our expertise in Asia Pacific ranges from Corporate & Investment Banking (Advisory, Financing and Global Markets) to Asset Management, Global Transaction Banking and specialized financial services like Equipment & Vendor Finance and Vehicle Leasing & Fleet Management. In addition, Societe Generale's Global Solution Centre (SGGSC) in Bangalore and Chennai offers customized business solutions to the Societe Generale Group globally including ASIA

Department Description:

Finance Service Unit (“DFIN”) coordinates the Finance Line and ensures the Group’s financial production, steering and management via several complementary missions:

• Support business lines, service units and general management in terms of financial and strategic steering.
• Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards and obligations.
• Ensure monitoring and steering of P&L and scarce resources performance (capital, liquidity, balance sheet) in keeping within strategic objectives and in compliance with regulatory obligations.
• Maintain financial crisis management plans.
• Ensure regulatory watch on topics pertaining to asset & liability management, accounting, and finance.