Reporting to the CFO, the Financial Controller (FC) is responsible for group-level financial control, statutory and management reporting, governance, and compliance across Far East Orchard Limited (FEOR) and its subsidiaries.
The role ensures the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of financial information, supports the CFO in Board, ARC, and regulatory reporting, and provides financial stewardship and oversight of finance teams across multiple jurisdictions and business platforms.
Responsibilities
Group Financial Reporting & Close
- Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close at group level, ensuring adherence to reporting timelines and accounting standards.
- Oversee group consolidation and ensure accuracy of eliminations and group journals.
- Review and support the preparation of statutory and management financial statements and analyses.
- Coordinate and direct the preparation of regulatory reporting, including quarterly and year-end reporting to SGX.
- Ensure financial statements are prepared in accordance with applicable accounting standards, SGX requirements, and group accounting policies.
Governance, Controls & Compliance
- Establish and maintain strong group financial controls, ensuring consistency and discipline across entities and regions.
- Review and sign off group-level compliance and Negative Assurance Checklists (NACs), and oversee entity-level compliance reviews.
- Act as the primary finance counterpart for external auditors, internal audit, and regulators, managing audit planning, execution, and issue resolution.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, loan covenants, and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions.
- Ensure compliance with interested person transaction (IPT) requirements and related disclosures.
Budgeting, Forecasting & Management Reporting
- Oversee the preparation and review of annual group budgets and rolling forecasts (P&L, cash flow, and capex), including coordination and review of business units budgets; analyse and report variances.
- Review consolidated forecasts, key assumptions, and performance drivers.
- Review management reports, variance analyses, and performance commentary for CFO and EXCO review.
- Provide financial insight and analysis to support strategic initiatives, investment decisions, and capital allocation.
Treasury, Tax & Risk Oversight
- Oversee treasury management and reporting, liquidity monitoring, and covenant compliance.
- Oversee tax team, including filings and compliance matters and coordination with external tax advisors.
- Support the CFO in financial risk identification, mitigation, and scenario analysis as required.
Stakeholder & Board Support
- Support the CFO in the preparation of Board and ARC papers, including financial results, audit matters, accounting judgments, and governance disclosures.
- Act as a key finance point-of-contact for senior management, auditors, and key external stakeholders on group-wide financial reporting and control matters.
- Contribute to group initiatives, business integration, and finance transformation projects as required.
Finance Leadership & Capability Building
- Lead and develop the finance team, including Controllers/Managers and shared service teams where applicable.
- Provide clear oversight, coaching, and performance management to ensure high professional standards.
- Drive continuous improvement in financial reporting processes, systems, and controls.
- Support finance transformation initiatives, including systems upgrades and standardisation efforts.
- Foster a strong culture of accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
- Degree in Accountancy or related discipline
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g. CA, ACCA, or equivalent)
- Minimum 10–12 years of relevant finance experience; ideally with 8–10 years in a Big 4 accounting firm.
- Experience of working in a SGX-listed group, real estate, hospitality, or lodging businesses is a definite advantage
- Strong knowledge and experience in financial reporting standards, consolidations, and internal controls.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; meticulous and detail-oriented.
- Ability to interpret complex financial information and communicate clearly to senior management and board members
- High integrity and firm on controls.
- Able to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels.
- Confident in managing senior stakeholders and external advisors
- Calm under pressure, with sound judgment in sensitive and time-critical matters.
- Proven leadership in a similar setting
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
- Good business acumen and highly adaptive
- Mature, proactive, resourceful and hands-on with good initiative
- Works well independently with minimal supervision, while remaining a strong team player.
- Able to multitask and deliver under multiple tight deadlines.
