Analyst, Accounts Payable

EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 56,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Edwards Lifesciences Malaysia is seeking an Accounts Payable Analyst in Kuala Lumpur to support accurate and timely AP processing. You will handle invoice validation, supplier data accuracy, and assist with month-end close and SOX controls while working with a global finance team.

The role requires strong MS Office and ERP proficiency (JDE), with 3+ years in AP within a Shared Services environment, and excellent communication in English.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration with at least 3 years' AP experience.
• Experience in Shared Services environment preferred.
• Strong English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Applies professional expertise to support accounting activities and business outcomes.
• Ensure AP invoice processing complies with global and local policies and reviewed timely.
• Verify supporting documents for GR/IR and process accordingly.
• Provide AP analysis including supplier data accuracy and timely invoicing.

Skills

MS Office Suite

Communications skills

Problem-solving skills

Team player

Discretion with confidential info

Fraud risk awareness

Relationship building

Prioritization

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance/Accounting/Business Administration

Tools

JDE ERP

Coupa

Excel

Job description

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Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Patients are at the heart of what we do at Edwards Lifesciences. Our Finance teams work hard to optimize our current and long‑term success and enable our ongoing strategy of innovation, leadership, and focus. As part of the team, whether providing analysis, forecasting, or reporting financial information, your application of accurate financial business practices will play a fundamental role in how we impact the quality of life for patients all over the world.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Applies professional expertise and judgment to support accounting activities and business outcomes.
• Ensure that AP invoice processing are complied with global and supplemental policies and reviewed in time.
• Verify if supporting documents for GR/IR process are sufficient and process them accordingly in time.
• Provide moderately complex accounts payable analysis including ensuring the accuracy of the suppliers’ data (e.g., financial data, tax filing status) or accuracy and timeliness of invoice processing.
• Lead and participate in projects (e.g, internal, external, year-end, and SOX audits) to support the overall objectives of the department or company‑wide strategic initiatives.
• Identify, evaluate, and ensure the accuracy/completeness of the accounts payable accruals or any other reporting tasks to support the overall objectives of the department.
• Resolve complex issues to bring invoices or supplier set up issues to closure by collaborating with other departments or suppliers.
• Provide coaching and guidance to lower level employees.
• Develop and update process flows, policies and procedures, training materials for the assigned areas
• Perform detailed analysis of account balances to ensure accuracy and compliance with US GAAP and statutory adjustments as part of the overall accounting close process; establish rationale and justification for required adjustments to ensure critical reserves and accruals are appropriately stated.
• Identify accounting system deficiencies, recommend process improvements to provide timely, accurate and useful information to ensure accurate financial reporting and partner with systems group to drive required changes.
• Prepare fluctuation analysis for quarterly and annual audits for the purpose of presenting rationale and closing open issues and closing open issues with external auditors; ensure all SOX key controls are appropriately completed within area of responsibility; establish audit worthy evidence and documentation to ensure no significant audit deficiencies are identified by internal or external auditors.
• Maintain and update desk procedure documentation as processes change for efficiency

Other incidental duties

What you'll need (Required):

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and ERP application (e.g JDE) and other AP systems (e.g., Coupa).
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration with minimum of 3 years of working experience in Accounts Payable or any other accounting function preferably from Shared Services environment.
• Possessed team player qualities and takes initiative and ownership of assigned duties.
• Good communications skills both verbal and written in English.
• Computer literate, competent in Microsoft office, and conversant in JDE system preferred or any experience with other ERPs.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage confidential information with discretion.
• Ability to understanding of fraud risk and controls to mitigate against payment risks.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships across the organization to influence and achieve objectives.

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Good computer skills in MS Office Suite including Excel required; integrated systems (e.g., JDE) preferred
• Excellent communication, interpersonal relationship, and negotiation skills
• Full knowledge of accounting concepts and principles
• Expertise in one or more functional areas and detailed knowledge of other areas impacted within the business
• Full knowledge in MS Office Suite including Excel and integrated systems (e.g., JDE)
• Strict attention to detail
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
• Must be able to work in a team environment, including the ability to manage vendors and stakeholders
• Ability to build productive internal/external working relationships
• Responsible for individual and collective team contributions.
• Ability to provide suggestions based upon knowledge and analysis.
• Ability to influence cross site activities.
• May schedule the work of or coach others.
• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control

We are a global leader in patient‑focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, we collaborate with the world's leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, we have extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and Asia and currently employ over 14,000 individuals worldwide.

For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it's our life's work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.

We are a global leader in patient‑focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, we collaborate with the world's leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, we have extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and Asia and currently employ over 14,000 individuals worldwide.

For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it's our life's work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.

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