Controllership-Process & COE-Manager

Lazada Group; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lazada Group in Malaysia seeks a Finance/Legal-Financial Accounting and Control professional to govern accounting processes, ensure robust controls, and support new initiatives with rollout and automation.

You will collaborate with Finance Business Partners, Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, and other functions to align processes with the company’s strategy while maintaining compliance and driving efficiencies across ventures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting; 5+ years managing projects/implementations.
• Technically competent and hands-on.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and under tight timeframes.
• Experience with automation tools and process improvement welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Be SME for processes and systems; monitor audit issues and closure across finance domains.
• Lead reviews of business initiatives; design processes; support system development.
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders and BPO to ensure high-quality service.
• Transition new entities/workflow to Finance BPO when initiatives arise.
• Identify and prioritize process and system improvements; run workshops; train end-users.

Skills

English-Chinese fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

SAP

SQL

Job description

Finance/Legal-Financial Accounting and Control

Location: Malaysia

Job Description

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

• 1. 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.
• 2. 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.
• 3. Build trusting relationships and continuous interaction with internal stakeholders, as well as BPO, to ensure high-quality delivery of service and maximum customer satisfaction.
• 4. Initiate the transition of new entities/ workflow to Finance BPO when there are new initiatives, process changes, or transactional work remaining in local ventures.
• 5. 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.