Executive search firm Monroe Consulting Group Philippines is recruiting on behalf of a tire and wheel trading company with their own brands manufactured overseas. Their Alabang office runs the accounting for the entire business - all 8 legal entities and roughly 20 LLCs spanning wholesale, retail, e-commerce, franchising, and holding structures for real estate, real property, and brand IP. You'll own the consolidated financial picture that everyone else's numbers roll up into.

You'll lead the accounting function day to day: the Accounts Payable Manager and the AR & Collections Manager report to you, along with a small team of staff accountants working the general ledger directly. In total you'll have 7-10 direct reports across two layers - two managers you hold accountable for their own functions, and individual accountants whose work you're closer to.

You'll report to our CFO. This is a new layer above two roles - AP and AR - that previously reported straight to the US Controller; going forward, they report to you, and you report to the CFO on the consolidated result.

The shift starts at 6:00 AM, giving you live overlap with the US morning and with your AP Manager, who works the same hours. Your AR Manager runs a night shift on full US Pacific overlap, so that relationship - and a good amount of your work with the CFO - runs on writing, not real-time conversation.

What you'll do
Own the consolidation. Roll up results across all 8 entities and roughly 20 LLCs - eliminate intercompany transactions, keep a consistent close calendar across every entity, and make sure the consolidated number is one the CFO can trust without re-checking it. Nobody owns this today; that's why the role exists.
Run the close. Set the close calendar and checklist across AP, AR, and the general ledger. Chase down what's late before it becomes the CFO's problem, not after.
Lead through your managers. The AP Manager and AR & Collections Manager own their functions. Set their targets, clear what's blocking them, and hold them to their own KPIs - don't do their jobs for them.
Stay hands-on with the GL. Your staff accountants report straight to you. Journal entries, account reconciliations, and the technical calls - landed cost, revenue recognition across four sales channels, inventory valuation - sit with you.
Keep the books audit-ready. Documentation and controls solid enough that a US external auditor can follow them without a guided tour.
Report to the CFO. Consolidated financials, variance explanations, and the numbers that tell leadership where the business actually stands - accurate, on schedule, with no surprises buried in a footnote.
Build the function as it grows. There's no formal job architecture or salary bands yet, and Alabang headcount is growing. You'll have real input into how this team is structured as it scales.

What success looks like

Consolidated financials across all 8 entities and roughly 20 LLCs close accurately, on a predictable calendar
Intercompany eliminations tie out every period - no plug entries carried forward
AP and AR Managers hit their own KPIs (on-terms payments, DSO, aging) without needing rescue from you
GL reconciliations are current, with no stale reconciling items carried month to month
A US external auditor can follow the numbers without a guided tour
The CFO gets what they need, on schedule, with problems flagged before they're asked about
Your team's error rate goes down each quarter

What you need

Required

Bachelor's degree in Accountancy, Accounting Technology, Finance, or similar; CPA required
15+ years in accounting/finance, including 5+ years at Controller or senior accounting-manager level
Direct experience consolidating financials across multiple legal entities - intercompany eliminations, multi-entity roll-ups
Experience managing managers, not just individual contributors
Solid grasp of US GAAP, including inventory costing/landed cost and revenue recognition across multiple sales channels
Experience owning a monthly close calendar end to end
Trading, distribution, import, or wholesale background
Strong ERP skills - Odoo, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or Dynamics - including multi-entity, multi-currency
Strong Excel: lookups, pivots, reconciling large data sets
Clear written and spoken English - regular direct contact with the CFO and other US leadership
Able to work onsite in Alabang starting at 6:00 AM

Nice to have

Experience in a shared services or offshore finance/accounting center
Odoo experience specifically
An ERP migration under your belt
Exposure to real estate holding structures or franchising accounting

Who does well here
People who can hold the whole consolidated picture in their head and still be comfortable in the weeds of a GL reconciliation. Who manage two Managers without micromanaging them, and catch a consolidation error before the CFO does. Who are comfortable being the senior accounting voice onsite, with no local peer above them, while still reporting cleanly to a CFO many time zones away.

The honest part
You're the senior accounting person onsite - there's no PH-based finance leader above you to check with, though you report to the CFO in the US. The company is growing and realigning, with no formal levels or salary bands yet, so you'll help shape the structure as much as follow it. Close, audit season, and consolidation across 8 entities and roughly 20 LLCs mean heavy stretches. If that trade-off works for you, the ownership is real: you're building how this accounting function scales, not just running what's already there.