Finance Manager
Axelera AI
Finance Manager
Axelera AI is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to own day-to-day financial control across a multi-entity, multi-country AI semiconductor scale-up. The role sits between the VP Finance and the wider finance team, focusing on internal controls, IFRS compliance, and IPO readiness. Requires Big 4 audit background, hands-on NetSuite experience, and strong IFRS knowledge.
Finance Manager
Axelera AI is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to own day-to-day financial control across a multi-entity, multi-country AI semiconductor scale-up. The role sits between the VP Finance and the wider finance team, focusing on internal controls, IFRS compliance, and IPO readiness. Requires Big 4 audit background, hands-on NetSuite experience, and strong IFRS knowledge.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Own the monthly and annual close process across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and IFRS compliance
- Operate, maintain and evidence the group’s internal financial control framework across all entities - performing, documenting and monitoring the controls, and surfacing control gaps and improvement opportunities
- Take day-to-day ownership of financial compliance - statutory, regulatory and tax-filing obligations and adherence to group finance policies - maintaining a compliance calendar and escalating risks and exceptions
- Act as a senior point of escalation for the Payroll Specialist, AP Lead and Financial Controller, reviewing their output and resolving complex queries
- Support the relationship with our external auditors (Deloitte) and year-end audit fieldwork, including technical accounting memos
- Oversee balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany accounting, and multi-entity consolidation
- Support statutory filings and tax compliance across multiple entities, working alongside external advisors
- Drive process improvement, and implement and embed enhancements that mature the group’s controls towards IPO readiness within the control framework
- Own and optimise NetSuite as the group's core financial system, including new entity/subsidiary set-ups
- Identify and implement opportunities to use AI tools to streamline finance processes, reporting and analysis, improving speed and accuracy across the function
- Support ad hoc finance projects: new country set-ups, manufacturing cost accounting, and system implementations