Senior Accountant - Dynamic Team

Job description

• Basic up to RM 7, 000
• Flexible benefit : RM 1, 200 per year
• Parking allowance : RM 160
• Mobile and Internet Allowance : RM 100
• Company Industry: Pharmaceutical
• Office based at PJ
• Monday to Friday, 8.30AM-5.30AM - There is flexibility to wfh.
• Entitled for 26 weeks of paternity/maternity leave after 1 year of service.

Qualifications:

• Qualified accountant with professional qualification/university degree.
• 5 years’ relevant experience.
• Ability to work in decentralized finance structure.
• Experience in pharma/healthcare company would be added advantage.
• Professional business English (oral and written) as well as local language as required.
• Must be able to at least speak in Mandarin. Ability to read and write would be an additional advantage.
• The candidate has finance/accounting experience and keen to explore on financial analysis.
• Exposure in full set of account, inventory management would be a plus point.
• Good stakeholder management as this role will work closely with the multiple countries.
• Importantly having the right attitude: learn and grow with this organization. Open for feedback and proactive.

Responsibilities:

Overseeing and working in close collaboration with the BPO and ensuring the deliverables from the BPO.

Accounts Payable:

• Document management, process invoices, process payments, manage discrepancies, handle vendor queries, create and update supplier master data, process month end and reporting.

Manage expenses:

• Handle expense claims, perform quality check, process expenses reimbursement, manage queries.

Manage and process collections:

• Perform cash application, perform aging, collect cash, create and update customer master data, process month end and reporting.

Customer billing and collections:

• Enter customer invoice, generate and send invoices to customers, forecast collections, release credit hold.

Period end closing and reporting:

• Process current period transactions, generate and process journal entries, close and open, reconcile sub-ledgers, update balances, close GL period, generate financial reports, maintain G/L master data, manage allocations, intercompany reconciliations.
• Process and manage intercompany transactions.
• Bank reconciliation.
• Tax accounting.

Working in close collaboration with the country/site Finance organization and ensuring timely achievement of the listed tasks.

Period end closing and reporting:

• Define journal entries, perform analytical review, perform internal control systems.

Tax preparation and management:

• Calculate and report taxes, monitor compliance, manage tax queries.

Treasury management:

• Manage in-house bank accounts, manage financial risk and fraud /dispute cases, forecasts cash and manage foreign exchange rates master data.

Inventory management and validation:

• Perform inventory accounting, transfer pricing, process month end and reporting, perform cost accounting and control, annual stock take.

Perform Financial and Tax reporting:

• Perform statutory reporting by ensuring accounting records and reports are accurate, duly approved and comply with the Statutory Accounting Principles and Annual Tax Filing.

Support the preparation of Management reporting and forecasting:

• Periodic management reporting and forecast, annual budget.

Working in close collaboration with the regional and local stakeholders on local Supply Chain:

• Follow up on orders & inform all the department heads on the potential business interruption.
• Analyze, manage & monitor the inventory.
• Leading the monthly S&OP meeting.

Finance policy:

• Strict implementation of IFRS and internal guidelines across the entities (and others if applicable).
• Adherence to the local fiscal and finance related regulations of the respective country.
• Inform timely on potential issues, assess the risks, and propose corrective measures.

Projects and improvements:

• Support HQ/Corporate Finance in the implementation of corporate Finance programs, processes or procedures which are to be locally applied.
• Contribute to performance management and drive continuous improvement initiatives e.g. propose standardized and coordinated use of financial information systems, identify and propose optimization measures.

Compliance and integrity:

• Strict implementation and adherence to internal guidelines, instructions, processes and systems, local as well as global.
• Strict adherence to the local fiscal and finance related regulations of the respective country.
• Risk management: Inform relevant parties timely on potential issues, assess the risks and propose corrective measures.

Collaboration:

• Collaborate with BPO to ensure a smooth relationship and a seamless delivery of the in-scope finance activities.