About Us
SecondTalent Group (operating entity: Cowsquare Technology Limited) is a cross-border Employer of Record (EOR) and talent solutions platform headquartered in Hong Kong, with active operations across Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand) and Greater China. We help companies hire, pay, and manage talent compliantly across borders.
Branch8 is our AI-powered marketing infrastructure and managed teams company, operating independently under the same group structure. Together, the group manages 10 legal entities across multiple jurisdictions, each with distinct tax, statutory, and compliance obligations.
The Role
This is a hands-on execution role, not a management position. You will be the primary finance operator for the group, owning day-to-day accounting, cleaning up and maintaining intercompany transactions across all entities, and coordinating with external corporate secretaries and local tax agents in each jurisdiction.
The immediate priority upon joining is to bring order to our intercompany balances and reconcile transactions across entities. This is a high-ownership role in a lean team: you will work directly with founders and external advisors, with no internal team above or below you.
What You Will Own
Intercompany & Consolidation (Primary Focus)
- Map, reconcile, and clean up all intercompany transactions across 10 entities
- Establish and maintain an intercompany billing and settlement framework (management fees, cost recharges, service agreements)
- Prepare consolidated group accounts and support audit-readiness across entities
- Identify and eliminate mismatches, undocumented transfers, and unsupported balances
Day-to-Day Accounting
- Own the full-cycle accounting for group entities: AP, AR, payroll journals, bank reconciliations
- Manage accounts across multiple currencies (HKD, USD, IDR, VND, PHP, MYR)
- Maintain accurate general ledger records per entity and ensure monthly close is completed on schedule
- Oversee EOR client billing, collections, and worker payroll cost allocation across entities
Tax & Statutory Compliance
- Coordinate with corporate secretaries in each jurisdiction for annual filing, statutory returns, and secretarial deadlines
- Liaise with local tax agents in HK, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines to ensure timely filing of corporate tax, VAT/GST, and withholding tax
- Track and escalate upcoming compliance deadlines across all entities
- Support transfer pricing documentation for intercompany transactions where required
Financial Reporting & Controls
- Produce monthly management accounts per entity and group-level summary for founders
- Build and maintain a finance tracker that gives real-time visibility on entity-level cash, payables, and receivables
- Support external auditors with documentation, schedules, and reconciliations
- Flag financial risks, anomalies, and compliance gaps proactively
What We Are Looking For
Must-Have
- Hands-on transfer pricing experience: preparing or maintaining TP documentation, applying arm's length principles to intragroup transactions, and working with management fee or cost-sharing arrangements across jurisdictions
- Direct experience cleaning up, reconciling, or establishing intercompany transaction frameworks across 5 or more legal entities
- Experience preparing or supporting group consolidation with intercompany eliminations
- 3 to 6 years of accounting or finance experience in a multi-entity company operating across Asia
- Proficiency in English for cross-entity communication; additional SEA language proficiency is a strong plus
Strongly Preferred
- Prior experience at an Employer of Record (EOR), PEO, staffing platform, or any cross-border HR or payroll company or consulting firm
- Experience with VAT/GST cross-border treatment on intragroup invoicing, particularly HK-to-SEA entity billing
- Exposure to holding company structures with operating subsidiaries across ASEAN and Greater China
- Multicurrency treasury management and FX reconciliation across HKD, USD, IDR, VND, PHP, MYR
- Experience in XERO accounting software is a must
