Controller, Apac

Overview:
**Controller
- Global Markets Finance
- APAC**

Waters has an exciting and challenging opportunity available for a
**Controller** to support Asia Pacific Field Operations and enhance accounting and reporting capabilities. This individual will provide vision, leadership and accountability to finance teams across APAC in terms of harmonizing best practices, optimizing the control environment and improving processes.

This critical role will ensure compliance and provide sound information to business leaders to enable strong decision making. Direct leadership responsibility will be for a small team who will focus on consolidation and reporting. This is a new role that will report to the Senior Director of Finance for Asia Pacific.

**Responsibilities**:

- Build, lead, motivate and develop a small team to perform accounting, consolidation, reporting and process simplification; dotted line manager responsibility for the accounting teams across Asia Pacific.
- Partner with the Finance Directors across APAC to design and harmonize best practices, increase efficiency and controls and improve consolidation of P&L, balance sheet and non-financial results to meet both Global Markets and Corporate reporting needs
- Strategically design and implement harmonized key metrics at APAC level and cascading to indicate areas of risk, opportunity and focus from accounting and compliance perspectives
- Consult and advise local accountants throughout the APAC with complex accounting escalations. Accounting complexities typically center around revenue recognition, foreign exchange accounting and AHQ service fees allocation. Train and develop finance team members.
- Assess and optimize the control environment within each entity in APAC gaining alignment with internal audit and local teams
- Engage in internal and external audits throughout APAC to ensure quality outcomes and design and implement improvements based on findings
- Represent APAC in global transformation projects within the Account to Report cycle

Qualifications:

- CPA required
- Minimum of a Bachelors Degree in Finance, Accounting or related discipline
- Minimum 10 years’ experience working in accounting and/or finance with progressing responsibility and proven leadership abilities
- Experience leading teams in Asia Pacific region
- Ability to influence and impart change through influence and provide consistency and follow through to ensure ongoing adherence to policy and best practice
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Company Description:
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
- Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status._