Controllership-Process & COE-Manager

Lazada; Kuala Lumpur; Presencial; MYR 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Lazada in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a senior finance professional to govern accounting processes and controls, ensuring smooth rollout of new initiatives while maintaining strong risk management.

The role partners with Finance Business Partners, Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, and other teams to align processes with Lazada’s logistics strategy and pursue automation and continuous improvement.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting required.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience managing projects/implementations.
• Fluency in English and Chinese is a must.
• Familiarity with SAP and SQL is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Be the SME in processes and systems of the domain area; monitor audit issues and support country closures.
• Lead the review of business initiatives.
• Design processes and recommend system developments to support initiatives.
• Drive business partnering with stakeholders.
• Create, review, and publish manuals and SOPs for new initiatives.
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders and BPO for high-quality service delivery.
• Initiate transition of new entities/workflow to Finance BPO when needed.
• Identify and prioritise process and system improvement opportunities for finance operations.
• Conduct workshops to review work practices and pain points.
• Redesign processes for efficiency and automate where feasible.
• Provide updates and training to end-users on processes and tools.

Conocimientos

Cross-functional

Automation tools

Problem solving

Time management

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Herramientas

SAP

SQL

Descripción del empleo

This role administers the governance and controls for key accounting decisions related to business processes. This position will focus on supporting the rollout of new initiatives and projects, ensuring their smooth transition and operation, and driving transformational efficiencies and automation across all ventures, while ensuring the existence of sufficient controls to mitigate any risk implications. This role works closely with business leaders and internal partners (Finance Business Partners, Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, Transport, etc.) to ensure that processes continue to be aligned with the Company’s business strategy and goals, as well as meet changing needs in the logistics domain.

Responsibilities

• Be the subject matter expert in processes and systems of the domain area. Monitor all internal and external audit issues relating to the finance processes and ensure timely completion of action plans. Where needed, provide support to the countries for issue closure.
• Lead the review of business initiatives
• Design processes and recommend system developments to support business initiative success.
• Drive Business Partnering with relevant stakeholders.
• Create, review, and publish documentation of manuals and SOPs for new initiatives.
• Build trusting relationships and continuous interaction with internal stakeholders, as well as BPO, to ensure high-quality delivery of service and maximum customer satisfaction.
• Initiate the transition of new entities/ workflow to Finance BPO when there are new initiatives, process changes, or transactional work remaining in local ventures.
• Identify and prioritize process and system improvement opportunities for finance operations.
• Conduct workshops to continually review work practices and identify pain points
• Redesign processes for better operational efficiency, including adoption of automation tools, and resolve potential control issues
• Provide regular updates and training to various end-users related to company processes, systems and tools to ensure desired engagement, understanding and adoption

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in managing projects/implementations.
• Technically competent and operationally hands-on.
• Ability to work cross-functionally.
• Ability to work within tight timeframes, manage multiple priorities, and demonstrate flexibility as priorities change.
• Inquisitive mind to question the status quo and propose improvements using automation tools and improve workflows.
• Proactive in solving problems and developing creative solutions.
• Prior experience in e-commerce business will be an added advantage
• Must be fluent in both English and Chinese.
• Familiar with SAP and SQL is a plus.