General Ledger Executive

Cycle & Carriage Bintang Berhad; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cycle & Carriage Bintang Berhad in Malaysia is seeking a Finance Operations professional to support month-end close, inter-company reconciliations and analysis for management reporting.

The role requires a Diploma or Degree in Finance/Accounting, 3+ years of finance experience, strong internal controls, and excellent communication skills to interact with business units and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Strong internal controls background and ability to apply best practices in finance operations.
• Excellent written and spoken English; able to learn new technologies.
• Time-management skills and ability to handle multiple tasks with diplomacy and logic.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accounting processes and journal entries align with accounting principles and group policy.
• Monitor accruals and provisioning amounts regularly.
• Validate documents for month-end closing and ensure all journal postings are recorded in the General Ledger.

Skills

Internal controls

English communication

Time management

Inter-personal skills

Education

Finance/Accounting degree or diploma

Job description

• Ensure that accounting processes and journal entries are in accordance with relevant accounting principles, internal controls and group policy as applicable.
• Monitor accrual/provisioning amounts on a regular basis.
• Ensure that journal entries are supported with relevant documents for verification and approval purpose and no omission of journal entries posting to General Ledger.
• Responsible that all documents are validated and processed before month end closing or stipulated deadline.
• Ensure credit note, commission, customer refunds and staff claims are posted accurately and processed on timely manner.
• Check overtrades support claim to ensure accuracy and timely follow up. Attend to urgent request from business units and resolve operations issue.
• Work closely with Northern and Perak Finance Operations team to ensure completeness of inter-company transactions accounted in respective company’s book.
• Work with Functional Stakeholders to suggest modifications to processes, coordinate new products and implement relevant system functionality within the Finance Operations function.
• Prepare relevant schedules and reports for the compilation of additional financial information. Analyse and comment on the Management Report for Manager, Finance Operations.
• Meet deadlines set by management on month end close and reporting.
• Assist in checking accuracy of budget information uploaded into HFM and highlight or query on any unusual trend.
• Take on any ad hoc tasks as advised by superior.

Control procedures, general ledger reconciliation and SOP

• Maintain strong compliance of control procedures, i.e., LOA in carrying out daily tasks.
• Ensure timely preparation of reconciliations, i.e., inter-companies and third-party receivable to ensure all transactions have been accounted for within the Group.
• Ensure control amount in general ledger accurately tied to sub ledger, to achieve zero balance variance. Participate in annual stock take (parts and vehicle) and review reconciliation between system record and physical count.
• Ensure reconciliation and clearing accounts items are cleared on timely basis, i.e., within reasonable ageing bucket.

Changes on monthly basis

• Review changes in the balance sheet, income statement items and reasonableness of vehicle Gross Profit Margin.
• Make necessary inquiry on unusual expenses or trend.
• Conduct ageing analysis and review on clearing accounts as applicable.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Min 3 or more years finance experience in a progressively growing capacity.
• Strong internal controls background, industry knowledge of best practice for finance operations.
• Diploma/Degree (any level), preferably in finance, accounting qualification (any type) ad demonstrated professional experience is considered in lieu of the above formal qualifications.
• Strong command of written and verbal English and ability to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Good time-management skills and able to manage task in a systematic manner and great inter-personal and communication skills to handle challenging discussion with diplomacy and logic.