Inventory and Banking, Insurance, Payroll (BIP) Specialist

GlaxoSmithKline; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global biopharma company in Petaling Jaya seeks an Inventory and BIP Specialist to provide support in financial reporting and month-end close activities. The ideal candidate will have a degree in finance/accounting and at least 3 years of experience in financial reporting, with an emphasis on internal controls compliance. Join us in a role that fosters growth and collaboration in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in Financial Reporting / Auditing experience.
• Experience in working in Shared Service Centre in financial accounting.
• Pro-active, self-motivated, displaying initiative.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Inventory Month-End Close activities.
• Support execution of Internal Controls as per finance framework.
• Resolve BIP & Inventory accounting issues.

Skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Initiative

Education

Degree with Finance / Accounting

Tools

SAP

Job description

Site Name: Malaysia - Petaling Jaya

Posted Date: Sep 10 2025

As the Inventory and BIP Specialist, you are expected to provide continuous support in Inventory and BIP financial reporting to ensure accuracy, completeness, and timeliness. In this role, you will lead month-end close activities, execute internal controls, resolve accounting issues, and collaborate with stakeholders to facilitate successful reporting and compliance with corporate guidelines.

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform in the Inventory Month-End Close activities, ensuring GL and other activities are performed with quality and according to the timelines.

• Support in the execution of Internal Controls in accordance with GSK Internal Control Finance Framework.

• Provide Controllership support and ensuring quality delivery of BIP & Inventory reporting responsibilities with accuracy, completeness, and timeliness on a daily basis around BIP activities.

• Resolve BIP & Inventory accounting and reporting issues.

• Support in the execution of month end close steps in accordance with month end close checklist (MEC) and Operating Procedures in places.

• Ensure compliance to Regional / Global Finance Hub policies, local Company legal and statutory requirements.

• Ensure stakeholders queries are attended to and resolved in a timely, responsible, and proactive manner.

• Collaborate with stakeholders and other functions (e.g. C&C, P2P, O2C, FRMC, Stat&Tax) to ensure successful month-end close.

• Support the BIP & Inventory financial reporting of the designated legal entities.

• Support other team members through knowledge transfer; sharing of resource, knowledge and experience and best practice thereby ensuring quality is maintained.

• Support in projects and other ad-hoc activities.

• Support dividend payment process / related cashflow analysis & forecasting.

• Participate in any compliance audits and respond to audit queries.

• Other activities related to BIP, Service Delivery, Inventory and Controllership / Reporting activities.

Qualifications

• Degree with Finance / Accounting

• Minimum 3 years in Financial Reporting / Auditing experience including areas on financial accounting, reporting and statutory filing, inter-company transactions.

• Experience in working in Shared Service Centre in financial accounting or audit functions preferably in a multinational environment.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Pro-active, self-motivated and displaying initiative in solving problems

• Actively seeks to improve processes making them more effective and efficient

• Attention to detail, good analytical and problem-solving capabilities

• Ability to plan and manage workload to ensure all key deadlines is met

• Used to work with tight timelines and in a demanding environment

• SAP experience & inventory accounting experience is an advantage

• Any ad-hoc request or additional activities as required by LOC and management team.

• Provides support to external and internal audit

Why GSK?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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