Finance and Administration -Japanese (RTR)

IBM

Petaling Jaya

On-site

MYR 144,000 - 240,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

IBM Consulting in Malaysia seeks an experienced Finance and Administration professional (Japanese RTR) to manage end-to-end R2R processes using SAP S/4HANA. You will handle journals, reconciliations, intercompany activities, and month-end close while ensuring accuracy and controls.

You will deliver P&L and balance sheet reporting to senior stakeholders, support audits, and drive process improvements with Excel and other reporting tools, collaborating with global teams.

Qualifications

Commerce degree required with strong accounting knowledge.
Minimum 6+ years of hands-on R2R experience in BPO/SSO/GBS.
Strong SAP S/4HANA proficiency and intercompany capability.

Responsibilities

Manage end-to-end R2R including journals, reconciliations, accruals, and adjustments.
Oversee Intercompany accounting, reconciliations, balancing, and month-end close.
Run SAP S/4HANA postings, reconciliations, reporting, and data extraction.
Lead period-end settlement cycles and ensure timely closing.
Provide management reporting and financial analysis for senior stakeholders.
Ensure internal controls and SOX compliance; drive process improvements.
Support audits with documents, schedules, and explanations.
Collaborate with global teams to resolve issues and optimize service delivery.

Skills

R2R processes

Intercompany accounting

P&L reporting

Balance sheet reporting

Month-end close

Excel

Stakeholder management

SLA/KPI governance

Workflow and workload management

Education

Commerce Degree in Accounting/Finance/Commerce

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Manage and execute end-to-end Record-to-Report (R2R) processes, including journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, provisions, and adjustments.
Manage Intercompany accounting activities, including intercompany reconciliations, balancing, issue resolution, and month-end closing activities.
Perform and monitor period-end settlement cycles in SAP S/4HANA, ensuring accurate allocation, assessment, distribution, and settlement of costs to cost centers, profit centers, internal orders, and business units.
Ensure timely completion of financial closing cycles, including recurring journal entries, accrual settlements, and other month-end and year-end activities.
Lead month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to reporting timelines.
Utilize SAP S/4HANA for financial postings, reconciliations, reporting, and data extraction activities.
Perform balance sheet reviews, identify risks and opportunities, and ensure corrective actions are implemented timely.
Conduct financial analysis and support management reporting requirements.
Ensure compliance with internal controls, SOX requirements, accounting policies, and audit standards.
Identify, recommend, and implement process improvement and automation opportunities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
Support internal and external audits by providing required documentation, schedules, and explanations.
Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for R2R processes, SAP S/4HANA functionalities, intercompany accounting, and settlement activities.
Collaborate with global stakeholders and business units to resolve accounting issues and ensure service delivery excellence.

Required education

Master's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required Skills & Qualifications

Commerce Degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related field.
Minimum 6+ years of hands-on experience in R2R processes within a BPO, Shared Services, or Global Business Services environment.
Strong working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA.
Experience in handling Intercompany Accounting, Reconciliations, and Settlement Cycles.
Proven experience in preparing and presenting P&L and Balance Sheet reports to senior stakeholders.
Strong understanding of month-end and year-end closing processes.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and financial reporting tools.
Team supervision and Escalation Management
SLA/KPI ownership and Month-end close governance activities.
Stakeholder and client management.
Resource planning and workload management

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred Qualifications

Commerce graduate, or equivalent.
Experience working in multinational BPO, Shared Services, or Global Business Services organizations.
Good spoken and written skills in Japanese
The role operates on a shift schedule, typically mirror Japan working hours 8:00 to 5:00pm local time, and may require flexibility based on project and business requirements.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

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Job Title

Finance and Administration -Japanese (RTR)

Job ID

132575

City / Township / Village

PETALING JAYA

State / Province

Selangor

Country

Malaysia