Site Name: Malaysia - Petaling Jaya
Posted Date: Sep 3 2025
As the Assistant Financial Controller, you are expected to provide continuous support in Financial Reporting to the Financial Controller. In this role, you will report on a regular basis to facilitate managerial decisions. Your focus will be financial statements preparation with the assigned markets, gathering financial forecasting information from a variety of sources/systems, within the timetable and in the forms required by corporate guidelines.
This role will provide
YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress
YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
- Responsible for the reporting of financial results for their market and business unit with commentary for income statement, balance sheet and cash flow which is accurate, complete and:
- Fully compliant with all relevant accounting standards, current best practice, and any other regulations.
- Consistently applies accounting policies which are appropriate to the current business environment.
- Tightly controls transaction activity that operates in line with global processes and incorporates best practice financial controls.
- Delivers insight to the Division in key areas of risk, growth and performance making recommendations for continuous improvements and remedial action as required.
- Review financial information against historical run rates and future growth plans.
- Owns the Market balance sheets including approval of reconciliations.
- Supports and is responsible for the inputs to financial audits and tax.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and other functions (e.g. Business leads, P2P, O2C, Stat & Tax etc.) to ensure successful financial operations.
- Other Controllership activities as needed.
Why you
Basic Qualifications
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Accounting degree or qualification (ACA, ACCA or equivalent).
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Finance controlling / finance business partnering / planning & forecasting.
- Experience working within a complex Multinational Company is an added advantage
- Good working knowledge of SAP
- Rapid learning ability to deal with complex systems and data set
Preferred Qualifications
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Fluency in Japanese is REQUIRED, including the ability to communicate effectively in professional and business contexts
- Experience in working in Shared Service Centre in financial accounting or audit functions, preferably in a multinational environment.
- Demonstrate a good Commercial mindset and being able to interact with stakeholders at different level.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Pro-active, self-motivated and displaying initiative in solving problems
- Actively seeks to improve processes making them more effective and efficient
- Attention to detail, good analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to plan and manage workload to ensure all key deadlines is met
- Developed analytical skills.
- Outside of the box thinking and problem-solving skills.
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Why GSK
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
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