Management Accountant

Activpayroll; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Malaysia is seeking a skilled Management Accountant to provide critical financial insights and analytics. You will handle various tasks including financial reporting, budget preparation, and compliance with statutory requirements. With your ACCA qualification and expertise in financial environments, you will help drive the company’s profitability and support strategic business decisions.

Qualifications

• ACC qualified with experience in Management Accounts.
• Experience in multinational finance environments.
• Ability to meet deadlines under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Analyze daily transactions and align with budget.
• Prepare financial reports for management review.
• Manage end-to-end finance and accounting activities.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Financial Analysis

Communication

Decision Making

Education

ACCA Qualification

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Management Accountant

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Reporting To: Chief Finance Officer

Description

The Management Accountant is a critical role that provides financial insights and analysis to support our business in making informed decisions to help achieve its financial goals. This financial guidance helps to improve decision-making, enhances operational efficiency, and drives company profitability.

On a typical day, it looks like this:

• Analyzing daily transactions, ensuring they align with the budget and checking for discrepancies or errors
• Creating financial reports, such as profit and loss statements or cash flow forecasts, for senior management and leaders
• Liaising with key stakeholders, along with colleagues and senior managers in the Finance team, to gather data, understand operational needs, and provide financial insights to support decision-making
• Reviewing cost structures, identifying areas to reduce expenses, and ensuring departmental spending is within budget
• Updating financial forecasts based on current business performance and assisting in the preparation of future budgets
• Investigating variances between actual and expected financial performance and providing recommendations for corrective actions
• Managing end-to-end finance and accounting activities - bank reconciliation, journal entries, AP, AR, GL, employee claims, fixed assets, expenses, liabilities, and revenue
• Financial reporting and analysis
• Preparing and submitting monthly financial statements and ensuring compliance with local statutory requirements
• Preparing variance analysis and financial insights reports and submitting them to UK Finance
• Participating in and overseeing financial audits and the annual budgeting process
• Reviewing transfer pricing agreements
• Managing inter-company collections and payments
• Handling corporate tax computations for CP204
• Managing payroll and statutory payments for clients (MPS-half and EMS)
• Updating company information for the company secretary related to company finance
• Updating company information changes with banks and statutory bodies (Kastam, LHDN)
• Participating in integration processes
• Checking salary reports and verifying bank files before requesting approval (Alliance Bank and HSBC)
• Checking EPF, Income Tax, SOSCO, EIS, HRDC, ZAKAT payment reports and verifying bank files before approval
• Collaborating with external partners such as auditors, banks, tax consultants, and company secretaries to ensure regulatory compliance

To be truly effective you will...

• Be an ACCA-qualified accountant with demonstrable experience in Management Accounts
• Have experience working in complex financial environments within a multinational, multicurrency business
• Be highly focused and accurate, with an eye for detail
• Have a proven track record of delivering accurate work within deadlines in a fast-paced organization, with excellent prioritization and task management skills
• Be able to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, influencing and guiding towards outcomes
• Possess high attention to detail, able to identify trends in data and analyze impacts for service improvements
• Demonstrate high integrity, serving as a role model for doing the right thing, with a commitment to high performance
• Experience with NetSuite is advantageous but full training will be provided

Job ID 4ff857ce-a56b-4646-8890-6ef341106e37

Boost your career

Find thousands of job opportunities by signing up to eFinancialCareers today.