**Description** **Finance** The Finance department, which manages the company's budgets, forecasts and investments, and provides analysis of our financial performance and strategies. Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward. Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups. Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together. **Job overview and responsibilities** This role supervises the day-to-day finance, accounting, administration, payroll, treasury, and taxes activities for China. Responsible for compliance with all governments and local requirements, as well as adequate review of internal financial and business controls, in order to safeguard company assets and reliability of accounting data. Provide guidance to our business partners in areas of finance and accounting whenever necessary. Responsible for allocating work among teammates, implementing, and enforcing corporate policies and setting goals for immediate direct reports. In addition, this role ensures to the continuous review of country process to identify process improvements, which will yield higher efficiency at the country level. + Direct, plan, coordinate and control the Accounting, Audit, Payroll, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Budgets and Financial Reporting, Administration, Statutory Reporting, Cash Forecasting function, Tax Compilation & Reporting, Corporate Compliance, Internal Controls, Accounts Payable and Payroll Processing + Directing Internal Controls to ensure they are operating effectively as business environment and processes are changing continuously + Ensure these controls are monitored effectively and efficiently in order to safeguard company assets, validate the accuracy and reliability of accounting data on a timely basis + Ensuring that business processes are appropriately standardized across all countries + Develop staff by coaching them or provide adequate training to improve process effectiveness + Work with business partners to ensure compliance with the Company’s policies and procedures **This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded.** **Qualifications** **Required** + Bachelor's degree in business, Finance or Accounting field + 5 Years relevant work experience + Excellent communicator, analytical skills, sensitivity to cultural differences, proven customer focus + Some travel required + Extensive knowledge of international operations, policies, procedures and processes: + Live and work without company assistance + Must be legally authorized to work in China for any employer without sponsorship + Must be fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese (read, write and speak) + Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification + Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position **Preferred** + Master's degree + Professional Accounting Qualification: ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CPA (U.S.)/CICPA + Experience in a passenger transport and/or airline environment