Financial Functional Lead (Finance & Controlling)

Financial Module Coverage

General Ledger (GL): Chart of accounts design, multi-currency GL, intercompany reconciliation, statutory reporting

Accounts Payable (AP): Vendor master, payment runs, three-way matching with MM, withholding tax (MY, HK, JP)

Accounts Receivable (AR): Customer master, credit management, dunning, intercompany billing. Fixed Assets (AA): Asset master, depreciation runs, CAPEX tracking, disposal

Cost Centre Accounting (CCA): Cost centre hierarchy, allocation cycles, budget management

Profit Centre Accounting (PCA): P&L by business unit, brand, and country

Product Costing (PC): Recipe/BOM-based costing, standard cost roll, COGS analysis, variance reporting

Profitability Analysis (COPA): Contribution margin reporting by customer, channel and product

Treasury basics: Cash position, bank connectivity (MY, HK, JP), FX revaluation

Tax: SST configuration (MY), GST/VAT advisory for HK and JCT advisory for JP

Intercompany: Transfer pricing, intercompany invoicing, intercompany elimination logic

Minimum 8 years ERP Finance & Controlling experience, with at least 2 full-cycle ERP Greenfield implementations

Demonstrated experience in FMCG food manufacturing (product costing, recipe management, batch traceability)

Multi-country Finance & Controlling experience: APAC preferred, with specific experience in Malaysia SST and/or Japan JCT

Certification in Finance & Controlling in the relevant ERP platform is preferred

English language proficiency required. Cantonese or Bahasa Malaysia an advantage

Responsibilities:

Lead all Finance & Controlling design workshops in collaboration with the appointed SI and Arnott's Finance stakeholders

Define and own the global chart of accounts structure, financial dimensions and posting key framework

Design and validate the product costing model (recipe-based COGS for manufactured products)

Configure intercompany accounting logic: transfer pricing, markup models, intercompany elimination

Design multi-country tax configuration: MY SST (with SST return support), HK profits tax, JP JCT

Own the financial master data governance model: GL accounts, cost centres, profit centres, WBS elements

Lead Finance & Controlling System Integration Testing (SIT) and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with Finance teams

Validate financial data migration: trial balance migration, open items, fixed asset legacy data

Design and test period-end close process for all three entities (MY, HK, JP)

Produce Finance & Controlling configuration documentation and operating procedures

Provide financial close cutover support including parallel run validation