Involved in the overall management of accounting and financial reporting process to various key stakeholders and the Company-wide finance operations.
Management of accounting and financial reporting to various key stakeholders
- Correctly interpreting and applying relevant requirements under Malaysian Financial Reporting Standards (MFRS) and Companies Act 2016 (CA (2016).
- Analyzing and reviewing the income statement, statement of financial position and cash flows, and key performance indicators and benchmarks.
- Preparing statutory financial statements in accordance with regulatory requirements.
- Preparing relevant reports for the Boards of Directors and Audit Committee, Leadership Team and key stakeholders.
- Support management in decision-making by delivering accurate and timely financial information.
- Developing and strengthening key controls within the finance function, which do not impede on the Company's operations and growth potential.
- Seamlessly communicating and updating team members within the Finance team and Company-wide.
- Coaching and mentoring related Finance team members and subordinates, where required.
- Liaising and coordinating with Group Finance, external and internal auditors, tax agent as well as company secretary to ensure regulatory and statutory compliance.
- Involvement in special projects from time-to-time.
Management of Company-wide finance operations
- Prepare and review reconciliations for various bank accounts, general ledger and sub-ledger accounts, as well as system-interfaced data into the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
- Performing and coordinating the end-to-end process for financial closing and reporting to Group Finance, including issuing of sales invoices, review postings by the Procure-to-Pay team etc.
- Review business-related business case, purchase orders and settlements to vendors/suppliers and partners.
- Act as a key finance liaison, fostering seamless communication between the Finance team, Credit Risk, Treasury and Credit Operations departments.
- Involvement in special projects from time-to-time.
Requirements:
- At least a tertiary-level qualification relating to Finance or Accounting, or hold a professional Chartered Accountancy qualification from a recognised body, though extensive relevant hands-on experience may be considered in place of this.
- Relevant financial closing and reporting experience in a similar industry is a plus.
- Experienced in navigating within an ERP environment, i.e. SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, etc.
- Minimum eight years of related working experience and two years in a people management role.
- Business partnership and team player mindset.
- Strong command of both spoken and written English.
- Actual hands-on experience in performing financial closing and operations, and preparing statutory financial statements and management reports.
- Excellent understanding of accounting fundamentals and relevant MFRSs and CA (2016).
- Strong analytical skills and business acumen.
- Ability to communicate effectively and in an articulate manner, with team members across all levels.
- Dynamic and less-conformant to traditional nine-to-five type working hours.
- Experienced in Agile way of working.
- Positive mind-set and self-driven.
- Meticulous, with attention to detail.
Critically interfaces with:
- Group Finance and management, as well as company secretary, internal auditors and tax team
- Company-level leadership team.
- Business Partnering Role across different functions.
- Finance team members and subordinates.
- Key stakeholders within the Company, not limited to the Business and Technology Owners, Partnership and Merchant team and Operations.
- External auditor, tax agent and appointed consultants.
- Vendors/Suppliers as well as banking and other partners.
