South Korea Finance Senior Director

Finance Function Leadership In South Korea

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You will have overall leadership responsibility for the Finance Function in South Korea and lead a team of ~ 8 finance professionals. You will dually report to the Korea Office Leader - who sets the business agenda - and into the Asia Pacific (AP) CFO, who oversees the finance function in the Region. The finance function sets finance functional standards (e.g., accounting policies, tax policies), processes (e.g., the annual planning cycle, treasury systems), systems and controls, and supports the local commercial activities of the BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDPs).

You will be a member of the Korea Office's Management Team (covering the full geography, including digital and functional specialty units) and the AP Head of Finance Leadership team. Further, you will participate in global Finance Function initiatives e.g., participating in the Future Finance transformation. You will collaborate with other functions including People & HR, Client Team, Procurement, Legal, Marketing, Operations, etc.

With the other Senior Directors and Directors in Korea you will help lead and grow a world-class business services team serving BCG Korea .

The role involves:

• Strategy, decision support & analysis:
  Partnering with the Korea Office Leader and the broader MDP group, in commercial strategy, business development and financial decision making. You will play a major role in the overall governance of the business, including providing an objective view of performance, the integrity of control and policy and statutory compliance. You will also have responsibility for running the Korea annual Finance Planning and Forecasting activities, in close collaboration with the digital and functional specialty units and People Team.
  
  You will contribute to the agenda and decisions in the Korea Management Committee and MDP Meetings, which drives business build and client service activities, as a thought partner on finance and commercial strategy topics, such as identification of risk factors, coordination of investment processes, pricing decisions and communication to MDPs.

• Business Information & Analytics:
  Ensuring the business has the financial (and related) information and forward-looking analysis necessary to steer the business, whether by leveraging BCG's central information resources or providing locally. This includes leading accurate pipeline management through Client View, in close collaboration with each MDPs and BCG's specialty business units .

• Finance and Commercial Operations & Accounting:
  Overall accountability for the delivery of all financial operational activities in the end-to-end processes of lead-to-cash, source-to-pay, record-to-report, hire-to-retire and cash management, with leverage from members of Korea Finance Team and Global Finance Operations Hub. Of particular importance are activities with direct client impact including working with MDPs to agree on contracting, price negotiations and invoicing schedules and transparency on client economics relative to commitments (e.g. PVF, collections).

• Finance Expertise Functions :
  Overall responsibility for ensuring financial and related compliance in Korea including accurate and timely local accounting statutory filings, complying with regulations and standards such as tax filings (corporate tax, indirect taxes, transfer pricing, etc) to ensure that the business complies in full with the local laws and regulations, with close interaction with external auditors and advisors, while also complying with the firm's global policies.
  
  This will require significant collaboration with Global Treasury, Global Tax, Partner Services group, and the BCG Group Chief Accountant where BCG's cash, tax and accounting strategies and policies are set. A significant additional direct responsibility is working in partnership with BCG's Partner Services Group, and the Korea People Senior Director, to ensure Partner Programs are properly executed. Another key activity is to ensure awareness by local functions on risk management topics (including Commercial risk) and to…