Closing Cycles: Lead the month-end and year-end closing cycles for both the manufacturing operations and the sales office within strict timelines.
Performance Analysis: Prepare comprehensive monthly management reporting packages, delivering deep-dive variance analysis (actual vs. budget/forecast) on domestic business performance.
Team Leadership: Supervise, mentor, and review the day-to-day deliverables of one Accountant and one Accounts Executive to ensure data integrity.
Treasury Operations
Cash Management: Oversee regional working capital, optimize liquidity, and continuously monitor short- and long-term cash flow forecasts.
Banking & Funding: Manage corporate banking relationships, execute fund transfers, oversee local facilities.
Budgeting & Financial Forecasting
Financial Planning: Coordinate the annual corporate budgeting process and drive monthly/quarterly rolling financial forecasts across the sales and plant structures.
Operational Partnership: Partner closely with site operational heads and sales leads to track capital expenditure (CapEx) and align strategic goals with financial realities.
Compliance & External Audit
Governance: Ensure all accounting and ledger entries comply with IFRS standards, corporate governance policies, and local tax laws (including corporate tax and indirect taxes/SST).
Audit Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors, tax agents, and statutory bodies to ensure smooth, timely filings.
Job Requirements
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or an equivalent field. Professional qualifications (e.g., ACCA, CPA, MIA, CIMA, or equivalent) are highly advantageous.
Experience: Minimum of 4–5 years of progressive experience in core accounting, financial reporting, and team management.
Technical Skills: Strong hands-on experience navigating and extracting data from robust ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite).
Regulatory Knowledge: Up-to-date knowledge of IFRS Accounting Standards, local financial frameworks, and Malaysian statutory tax regulations.