Senior Manager - Finance, Accounting & Tax (Next-Gen Manufacturing)

Our customer, Next-Gen Food Ingredients Manufacturer is looking for Senior Manager Finance, Accounting & Tax to build the financial backbone for a revolutionary food ingredients manufacturer leveraging cutting edge operational production and sustainable sourcing. You'll architect scalable systems, secure strategic funding, and safeguard compliance while fueling R&D for breakthrough products.

What you'll do:

• Financial Architecture: Implement end-to-end finance systems (ERP, BI tools) from pre-revenue to USD 50M annual turnover.
• R&D Investment Strategy: Allocate capital to pilot plants and novel extraction tech with ROI modeling.
• Cost Intelligence: Track real-time production costs (per gram/kg) using IoT sensor data from bioreactors.
• Tax & Compliance: Ensure 100% adherence to PSAK/IFRS, BPOM audits, and R&D tax incentive claims.
• Funding Readiness: Prepare for Series B (2025) with investor decks, cap table management, and unit economics dashboards.
• Cash Flow Engineering: Optimize IDR 100B+ working capital via dynamic inventory/supplier financing.
• ESG Reporting: Build carbon accounting frameworks for sustainable ingredient certifications.
• Team Scaling: Hire/train 5 FTEs (AP/AR, Cost Accountant, Tax Specialist).

What you'll need:

• 10+ years in manufacturing finance (FMCG/food/pharma/chemicals)
• Startup to scale-up expertise: Scaled finance ops for 0USD 50M revenue
• Mastery of PSAK/IFRS and Indonesian tax law (VAT, WHT, corporate tax)
• ERP implementation skills (Oracle Netsuite/SAP S/4HANA)
• Advanced analytics (Power BI/Python for cost modeling)
• Fluent English (investor/global team liaison)

The ideal candidate will have:

• Builder mentality: Thrives creating systems from blank slates.
• R&D translator: Links biotech breakthroughs to P&L impact.
• ️Compliance hacker: Turns regulations into competitive advantages (e.g., halal tax incentives).
• Sustainability pragmatist: Balances eco-goals with unit economics.
• Bonus: Experience with novel food tech (fermentation, cellular agriculture).