Do you want to work with passionate teams, providing excellent business and digital services to the Asia Pacific region?
Do you want an open, supportive, and caring working environment?
Do you view your development needs seriously as we do?
If YES, then take your career to the #NextLevel with BASF!
Objectives of the Position
- Provide Accounts Receivable (AR) & Inter-Companies Reconciliation (ICR) services to business units in accordance with established processes, work procedures, and in compliance with BASF policies, Financial Reporting Compliance (FRC), local company legal and statutory requirements.
- Ensure that timelines and quality are met within the agreed service level agreements.
Main Tasks
Functional Tasks (including but not limited to)
- Process incoming receipts made by customers with various payment methods in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLA).
- Maintain customer rebate contracts & rebate settlement credit notes for 3rd party customers.
- Generate statements of accounts & dunning letters for customers.
- Resolve account discrepancies such as unallocated/unidentified receipts.
- Process Trade AR expected credit loss & specific provisions and write-offs of bad debts according to IFRS 9.
- Provide balance confirmations for 3rd party customers upon request.
- Generate periodic/ad-hoc AR reports as required.
- Perform customer reconciliation upon request from auditors or customers.
- Process exceptional customer invoices, debit notes, and credit notes as necessary.
- Clear and monitor open items in General Ledger accounts related to customers.
- Process customer refunds.
- Attend to queries according to timelines.
- Support transition/projects and perform testing.
- Initiate and execute inter-company reconciliation, identifying reasons for differences.
- Perform month-end and year-end closing activities for timely and accurate accounts closure.
- Investigate Condor discrepancies and provide adjustments via Adrian portal before reporting deadlines.
- Ensure justifiable inter-company differences and coordinate resolutions.
- Follow up on overdue inter-company receivables.
- Coordinate and investigate unsuccessful settlement requests.
- Advise on commission errors for resolution.
- Reconcile data maintenance in inter-company vendors & customers according to guidelines.
- Ensure no retrospective adjustments at invoice posting time.
- Attend to inter-company reconciliation queries from stakeholders.
Compliance
- Participate in audits and respond to queries.
- Ensure documentation and processes meet BASF policies, legal, and statutory requirements.
Quality and Continuous Improvement
- Identify and implement quality and efficiency improvements.
- Prepare training materials and conduct end-user training.
- Support team knowledge transfer and best practice sharing.
Others
- Support Business Continuity Plan activities.
- Perform other tasks as required by management or changing business needs.
Requirements
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Finance/Accounting or related disciplines, or professional qualifications (e.g., ACCA, CPA).
Working Experience & Skills
- Fresh graduates with relevant degrees or diploma holders with 1-2 years experience.
- Experience in shared services or BPO is advantageous.
- Good interpersonal, time management, organization, and multi-tasking skills.
- Ability to work independently and under pressure.
Technical & Professional Knowledge
- Proficiency in MS Office; SAP knowledge is an advantage.
- Proficiency in English and other languages as needed.
- Knowledge of programming or scripting is a plus but not mandatory.
Note: Candidates must reside in Malaysia or have the legal right to work in Malaysia.