Finance Manager - Career Growth Potential

Job Location: Bangsar South, Kuala Lumpur (LRT Reachable - Kerinchi station)

The Finance Manager plays a key support role to lead the shared service team, trading finance team and able to drive value within the business through cost controls, providing recommendation with corrective action and improve operational efficiencies.

Job Descriptions:

• Responsible for full set accounts and manage daily finance operation activities including payments, approved invoices and follow up with shipping team on finance related matters.
• Interact and work cross-functionally with a wide range of other internal business partners and provide accounting support and guidance as required.
• Review and analyze financial performance, cost and margin analysis, and report any abnormalities to the Senior Management for immediate corrective action.
• Responsible to meet all deadlines for period end financial reporting, statutory reporting and bank covenants compliance and bank queries.
• Monitor month end activities and review critical control accounts are closed with accurate information reported including financial statements, annual budgeting and management reporting.
• Manage relationships with auditors, tax agent, statutory and government bodies to ensure audit/tax queries are responded to in a timely manner.
• Account for and analyzing hedging fluctuations in relation to interest rates swap, foreign exchange rates and effects in revaluation currency against reporting system.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, implement policy and procedures to strengthen internal controls, and actively participate in finance digitization projects.
• Ability to manage shared services expectation.
• Serve as liaison between finance and trading operations.
• Ability to perform job duties with little management oversight.
• Other ad hoc tasks related to projects assigned by SFC/SM.

Job Requirements:

• At least 8 years of strong working experience in commodity environment / manufacturing (agriculture trading/supply chain and plantation is an added advantage).
• Professional accounting qualification including ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW and/or CPA will be highly preferred.
• Sound presentation skill and excellent communication and writing skill to deliver messages.
• Mature, proactive, out-spoken and able to develop and motivate a team.
• Highly responsive and able to work in a fast-paced environment and able to multi-tasks.
• Commercially-oriented with high energy, a ‘can-do’ attitude and hands-on.
• Operationally in tune with the business with a keen eye for analysis and details.
• Ability to work in a matrix and multi cultural environment and coordinate personnel with diverse skills and experiences to accomplish overall planning goals.
• Strong critical thinking and problem solver.
• Strong interpersonal skill to deal with shared services and all business functions.