R2R Accountant

Charles Taylor Adjusting; Selangor; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global provider in the insurance industry seeks a Record-to-Report Accountant to manage financial operations within the APAC region. The role involves preparing management accounts, ensuring compliance with IFRS, and improving financial processes. Ideal candidates will have strong accounting skills, be part or fully qualified accountants, and possess excellent communication abilities, especially in Japanese. Join a reputable firm committed to inclusivity and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years’ commercial accounting experience.
• Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts and balance sheet ownership.
• Perform month end close and financials for accurate reporting.
• Conduct balance sheet reconciliations and manage audit cycles.

Skills

Japanese

Accounting

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

ACA, ACCA or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

SUN & Cognos Controller

Job description

Charles Taylor is a leading global provider of professional services and technology solutions to the insurance industry. We are a profitable, growing organisation that is highly regarded in the insurance industry, employing some of the industry’s ‘best in class’ professionals and technical experts. Our services and solutions support every stage of the insurance lifecycle and every aspect of the insurance operating model, across all major commercial insurance lines as well as technical areas of personal insurance. We serve a diversified blue-chip international customer base that includes national and international insurance companies, mutuals, captives, MGAs, Lloyd's syndicates, and reinsurers, along with brokers, distributors, and corporate insureds.

Our delivery of high quality, tailored services and solutions to our clients is backed by our core values of support, excellence in people, client partnership, quality of work, entrepreneurship, and positive change. We look for employees who exemplify these values to join us and help drive our growth.

For more information, please visit www.charlestaylor.com

Overall purpose of the job

The role sits within Finance Group Shared Services and is responsible for Record-to-Report (R2R) operations for the Adjusting business portfolio including preparation of monthly management accounts, balance sheet ownership and general finance accounting tasks. The incumbent will be expected to support and work closely with the APAC Head of reporting as well as with the APAC Business Partnering team.

Key responsibilities

· Become the financial point of contact for the entities assigned in the R2R team under APAC region.

· Perform comprehensive, timely and robust month end close and financials, delivering accurate and meaningful numbers and reporting these to the Group centre for consolidation.

· Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations. Ensuring reconciliation is conducted in a robust and timely manner, that old balances are investigated and resolved and that the output stands up to scrutiny from external auditors.

· Responsible for performing of inter-company account reconciliations and revaluations.

· Carry out multi-currency bank reconciliations and calculate any revaluations.

· Review capital expenditure monthly, calculating the depreciation charge.

· Assist in tax related accounting activities including producing the quarterly GST/SST/VAT returns, statutory reporting (GAAP and IFRS) and liaising with tax agents in providing information to produce and file company corporation tax return, ensuring returns are submitted to authorities by the deadlines stipulated.

· Responsible for the year end process on the preparation of the annual statutory accounts for the assigned APAC legal entities in the R2R portfolio. Become the point of contact to coordinate with the Auditors, manage the audit cycle, ensure that audit queries are resolved promptly and Statutory Accounts are signed on time.

· Identify opportunities for efficiency and streamlining. To support standardization initiatives rolled out by the group and ensure policies and new processes are implemented successfully in the entity.

· Improve and document process design for R2R activities

· Assisting the implementation of internal controls in compliance with company policy

· Demonstrate and champion Charles Taylor Values by ensuring Agility, Integrity, Care, and Accountability and Collaboration.

· Ad Hoc duties: Your key accountabilities will include such other duties and tasks as allocated, at the discretion of management, and that are within your capabilities and the scope of your role.

Required Skills

· Able to speak and read Japanese is a desirable skill for this role as role includes managing a Japanese entity

· Part or fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with a minimum of 4 years’ commercial accounting experience

· Experience of working in a large MNC

· Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

· Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite

· Experience with SUN & Cognos Controller system would be useful but not essential

· Strong sense of accountability and ownership to the role assigned

· Strong accounting, analytical, time management and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and a pro-active mindset

· Able to work independently, prioritise work under tight schedules, be deadline driven, focused, and able to deliver quality results.

· Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with excellent spoken and written English that enable effective working relationships with people from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds.

· Highly numerate with a keen willingness to learn

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Charles Taylor, we are proud to be an Inclusive Employer. We provide an environment of mutual respect with zero tolerance to discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/ family status, race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.

Our external partnerships and the work we do to promote a transparent and fair recruitment and selection process contribute to the successful, inclusive, and diverse culture and environment which we are proud to be a part of at Charles Taylor.

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Charles Taylor is a global provider of services and technology solutions to the insurance market.

We aim to transform the global insurance market by enabling our clients to outperform. Our highly-skilled team covers every area of expertise relating to insurance. Our geographic reach covers the entire globe. We can resolve any insurance related matter, whenever and wherever it occurs in the world.

We are an agile, growing business, where everyone can make a significant impact at the same time as working for a leading, established brand with an outstanding reputation for providing high-quality services and solutions for the insurance industry.

We are specialists in our markets because we hire, nurture, motivate, develop and reward talented, professional people. This contributes profoundly to our reputation and our market presence. It supports our ability to work closely with our clients in strong partnerships, where trust and reliability are essential.

At Charles Taylor, we truly believe that the key to our growth and success is our people. We care about hiring, developing and rewarding talented individuals; after all it is our people who make us who we are.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Here at Charles Taylor we are proud to be an Inclusive Employer. We provide an environment of mutual respect with zero tolerance to discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/ family status, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

Our external partnerships and the dedicated work we do in promoting a transparent and fair recruitment and selection process all contribute to the successful, inclusive and diverse culture and environment which we are proud to be a part of at Charles Taylor.

Charles Taylor is a global provider of services and technology solutions to the insurance market.

We aim to transform the global insurance market by enabling our clients to outperform. Our highly-skilled team covers every area of expertise relating to insurance. Our geographic reach covers the entire globe. We can resolve any insurance related matter, whenever and wherever it occurs in the world.

We are an agile, growing business, where everyone can make a significant impact at the same time as working for a leading, established brand with an outstanding reputation for providing high-quality services and solutions for the insurance industry.

We are specialists in our markets because we hire, nurture, motivate, develop and reward talented, professional people. This contributes profoundly to our reputation and our market presence. It supports our ability to work closely with our clients in strong partnerships, where trust and reliability are essential.

At Charles Taylor, we truly believe that the key to our growth and success is our people. We care about hiring, developing and rewarding talented individuals; after all it is our people who make us who we are.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Here at Charles Taylor we are proud to be an Inclusive Employer. We provide an environment of mutual respect with zero tolerance to discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/ family status, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

Our external partnerships and the dedicated work we do in promoting a transparent and fair recruitment and selection process all contribute to the successful, inclusive and diverse culture and environment which we are proud to be a part of at Charles Taylor.

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