With the combination of NIQ and GfK, the new leadership team has an opportunity to design best-in-class ways of working and identify the best talent for the future. We are thoughtfully and systematically developing a new organizational structure that enables the combined company to deliver on financial commitments in 2024 and beyond. Because of your experience and contributions, you have been selected as a potential candidate for the role of Korea Controller, reporting to Ducia Loh. You will go through the talent selection process, our fairest and most equitable and inclusive way of determining the most qualified candidate for the role. To prepare for the interview kindly review the job details in this document

• Oversee US GAAP, statutory accounting/reporting, and SOX controls for Korea.

• Ensure adherence to US GAAP and NIQ accounting policies, maintaining SOX compliance throughout.

• Collaborate with the tax team on direct and indirect tax matters and ensuring timely assessment, computation and filling of all tax liabilities of the countries.

• Managing & guiding local country controller for all tax assessments and audits initiated by tax authorities

• Ensuring compliance to all local statutory requirements and other governmental filling as needed for compliance and continuation of business in countries

• Maintain close communication with Commercial Finance business partners to align on accounting updates that may affect financial reporting, budgets, and targets.

• Coordinate with regional departments including HR, Legal, Commercial, Treasury, CAS, Tax, IT, etc., to ensure accuracy and completeness of accounting records.

• Optimize the use of financial systems and finance operations hubs to ensure functionality and effective service delivery.

• Working with finance operations hub as extended team on all transactional accounting matters

• Support & guide the country Controllers during local internal & external audit and compliance review assignments, including any SOX or distributed audits

• Keeping updated on the local country compliance and tax changes, work with the local accounting teams for implementation and adoption of these changes

• Experience with US GAAP accounting and SOX controls

• Experience working across functions to achieve results within your function while also supporting the strategic goals of the company

• Experience leading a team; effective organisational skills to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness of the team, collaborative, inclusive, proactive and accountable

• Strong command of ERP systems and relevant accounting software,

• Strong presence and experience influencing a global cross-cultural team and stakeholders

• Strong collaborative ability to work with finance operations hubs

• Strong communication skills

• Ability to coordinate all core and continuous finance activities between the local environment and the Global and Regional organizational requirements

• CPA, Degree in Tax, Finance or Accounting with Analytical and Strategic mindset.

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion