Regional Controller, Food Ingredients, APAC

Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and make a real impact?

IFF is a global leader in Flavors, Fragrances, Food Ingredients and Health & Biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.

Finance: Empowering strategic decisions through expertise; fueling sustainable growth by delivering insights, managing risk, and driving value across global operations.

This senior leadership role is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and compliance of financial reporting and accounting processes across the APAC region, including Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The role oversees multi-country financial operations with a mix of mature and emerging markets, ensuring alignment with global standards while addressing local statutory, regulatory, and tax requirements. The Regional Controller acts as a key finance partner to regional leadership, providing strategic insights, leading controllership transformation, and driving consistency, efficiency, and strong governance across diverse regulatory environments.

The role is based in Kunshan or Shanghai, China (hybrid role). You will be part of a customer focused, growth oriented, collaborative team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.

Where You’ll Make a Difference

• Accountable of the financial statements and accounting across all APAC legal entities.
• Ensure compliance with US GAAP, local GAAP, and regulatory requirements across multiple APAC jurisdictions.
• Lead and coordinate regional financial close processes, ensuring timely and high-quality reporting according to the Group calendar.
• Oversee account reconciliations, ensuring resolution of high-risk balances and aged items.
• Provide deep financial analysis and performance insights across countries with varying complexity and maturity.
• Partner with business leaders and external stakeholders, including auditors, regulators, and boards, while driving cash flow and margin optimization.
• Manage statutory reporting, audits, and tax compliance in collaboration with Corporate Tax and external auditors.
• Drive implementation of accounting policies, controls, and transformation initiatives, including process standardization, automation, and shared service integration.
• Lead and develop APAC controllership teams, fostering capability building, succession planning, and continuous improvement across the region.

What Makes You the Right Fit

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in accounting/controllership. 8+ years of people management experience in multinational environments.
• Strong technical accounting expertise (US GAAP, IFRS, Local GAAP).
• Deep understanding of SOX and internal controls.
• Experience managing complex multi-country operations.
• Strong business partnering and strategic thinking skills.
• Experience in finance transformation and process improvement.
• Ability to manage diverse teams across cultures and geographies.
• Strong stakeholder management at senior leadership level.

How You Would Stand Out

• Professional certification required (CPA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Demonstrated success resolving complex accounting, regulatory, and fiscal matters across multiple countries and jurisdictions.

Why Choose Us?

• Join a global organization focused on innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence.
• Influence strategic business decisions through leadership of a critical finance function.
• Collaborate with diverse teams and leaders across multiple countries and cultures.
• Lead high-impact initiatives that strengthen governance, compliance, and financial performance.
• Grow your career in a dynamic, multinational environment with broad regional exposure.
• Be part of a purpose-driven organization where your expertise helps shape the future of the business.

For your awareness, IFF has announced its intention to sell its Food Ingredients Business to CVC Capital Partners. The sale is presently expected to close in the first half of 2027, pending regulatory approvals and other closing conditions. The Food Ingredient business unit will remain a part of IFF until close and, at such time, it will transition to CVC Capital Partners. In applying for this position, you acknowledge your awareness that the position is a part of the Food Ingredient business unit and has been identified to transition to CVC Capital Partners.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

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