Global Accounting Operations Director

MICRON MEMORY MALAYSIA SDN. BHD.; Batu Kawan; On-site; MYR 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Micron Memory Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. seeks an Operations Director to lead Value Realization, Capacity Release, and Enterprise Advisory across the Accounting COE, guiding global performance and standardized execution.

This role partners with senior leaders to balance speed, controls, and capacity, translating external benchmarks into pragmatic roadmaps and driving sustained improvements through ambiguity with clear ownership and accountability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (CPA/CA preferred)
• Typically 12–15+ years of experience in finance transformation, COE, or large-scale operations
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive decisions across functions and regions
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional change in complex environments and operate effectively under ambiguity
• Strong external perspective and strategic thinking; able to translate insights into executable roadmaps

Responsibilities

• Owns end-to-end benefits realization for COE initiatives, converting productivity gains into sustained capacity release
• Drives global operational health, scalable models, and consistent execution across regions
• Advises enterprise process transformations to ensure scalable, feasible solutions
• Leads risk and control initiatives to strengthen compliance and operational continuity
• Benchmarks industry standards and translates insights into pragmatic roadmaps and operating model shifts
• Undertakes cross-functional initiatives to support operational priorities and sustained performance across Accounting COE

Skills

Influence senior leaders

Cross-functional work

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance

MBA (advantage)

Job description

1) Value Realization & Capacity Release (Outcome Ownership)

Owns end-to-end benefits realization for Accounting COE initiatives—converting productivity claims into sustained capacity release that can be redeployed to higher-value work and/or enable scalability.

Establishes a practical approach to validate savings (run-rate vs one-time), prevent “benefit leakage,” and ensure improvements are embedded into standard operations and operating rhythms. (Recommended design; no additional source)

Drives measurable improvement in COE operational outcomes (cycle time, productivity, stability, quality), aligned to COE strategic direction and efficiency ambitions.

2) Global Accounting COE Operational Performance (Run + Scale)

Accountable for global operational health across Accounting COE services—ensuring stable delivery, scalable operating models, and consistent execution across regions.

Ensures COE service commitments are translated into operating discipline, including SLA adherence, performance visibility, and corrective actions when service levels are at risk.

Partners with functional leaders to reinforce standardization, operational readiness, and execution consistency that supports best-in-class performance.

3) Enterprise Advisory, Negotiation & Influence (E2E Beyond Accounting)

Serves as the principal accounting advisor to enterprise process/system transformations (e.g., S2P and adjacent workflows), ensuring solutions are operationally feasible, scalable, and sustainable for Accounting execution.

Influences senior stakeholders to drive timely decisions, resolve cross-functional conflicts, and secure end-to-end accountability across upstream/downstream partners.

Negotiates trade-offs across speed, controls, cost, and operational capacity—balancing business outcomes with execution realities and control integrity.

4) Operational Risk, Controls Mindset & Issue Leadership

Leads resolution of high-risk, high-visibility issues impacting operational continuity, control environment, or compliance readiness—especially those spanning regions/functions.

Ensures operational changes strengthen effectiveness and reduce friction while maintaining a disciplined control mindset in execution.

Applies structured problem-solving under ambiguity and time pressure; drives rapid containment and sustained fixes with clear ownership.

5) Benchmarking & Target-State Definition (External Lens)

Brings external benchmarks and industry insights to challenge current practices, define target-state performance standards, and translate them into pragmatic roadmaps and operating model shifts.

Helps advance COE toward “best-in-class” outcomes through scalable standards and measurable execution cadence.

6) Ad-Hoc Organizational & Cross-Functional Initiatives

Undertakes ad-hoc organizational or cross-functional initiatives, including people‑related matters, as required to support operational priorities, resolve emerging issues, and ensure sustained performance across the Accounting COE

Key Interfaces / Stakeholders

Accounting COE functional leaders (AP, GL, FA, etc.) for execution alignment and sustained adoption.

Enterprise transformation stakeholders and upstream/downstream partners (e.g., Procurement/S2P, IT, Tax, Finance Ops) for E2E design tradeoffs and operationalization.

COE performance framework partners where SLA/KPI commitments and service expectations are defined and tracked.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (CPA/CA preferred); MBA is an advantage.

Typically 12–15+ years of experience in finance transformation, COE, or large-scale operations.

Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive decisions across functions and regions.

Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional change in complex environments and operate effectively under ambiguity.

Strong external perspective and strategic thinking; able to translate insights into executable roadmaps.

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Micron is a global leader in the semiconductor industry. For more than 40 years, Micron has dedicated itself to collaborating with customers and partners to engineer technology that drives innovation and transform what's possible. Micron offers the industry's broadest portfolio of silicon-to-semiconductor memory solution - starting with foundational DRAM, NAND and NOR flash memory, and extending to SSDs, modules, MCPs, HMC and other semiconductor systems. This best‑in‑class technology powers leading‑edge computing, consumer, enterprise server and storage, networking, embedded, automotive, industrial and mobile products.

Micron provides opportunities for team members' personal and career development through challenging work assignments, training and educational programs. We hire, train, develop and educate a workforce that is competent in performing job expectations by providing orientation, job specific training, professional certification, external training and various continuous learning opportunities.

Micron is a global leader in the semiconductor industry. For more than 40 years, Micron has dedicated itself to collaborating with customers and partners to engineer technology that drives innovation and transform what's possible. Micron offers the industry's broadest portfolio of silicon-to-semiconductor memory solution - starting with foundational DRAM, NAND and NOR flash memory, and extending to SSDs, modules, MCPs, HMC and other semiconductor systems. This best‑in‑class technology powers leading‑edge computing, consumer, enterprise server and storage, networking, embedded, automotive, industrial and mobile products.

Micron provides opportunities for team members' personal and career development through challenging work assignments, training and educational programs. We hire, train, develop and educate a workforce that is competent in performing job expectations by providing orientation, job specific training, professional certification, external training and various continuous learning opportunities.

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