Management Accountant | Kuala Lumpur, MY

activpayroll; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Management Accountant to provide critical financial insights and analysis. The role involves ensuring compliance with financial regulations, preparing comprehensive financial reports, and collaborating with various stakeholders to drive profit enhancement and operational efficiency. Ideal candidates will possess ACCA qualification and experience in a multinational financial setting.

Qualifications

• Experience working in complex financial environments.
• Demonstrable experience with Management Accounts.
• Ability to deliver accurate work to deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Analyse daily transactions and create financial reports.
• Manage end-to-end finance and accounting activities.
• Participate in financial audits and annual budgeting process.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Budget Management

Attention to Detail

Stakeholder Communication

Deadline Management

Education

ACCA Qualified

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 on decision-marking, enhances operational efficiency and drives company profitability.

On a typical day, it looks like this:

• Analysing 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
• Review cost structures, identifying areas to reduce expenses and ensuring departmental spending is within budget
• Updating financial forecasts based on current business performance and helping with the preparation of future budgets
• Investigating variances between actual and expected financial performance and providing recommendations for corrective actions.
• Manage end to end finance and accounting activities - bank reconciliation, journal entry, AP, AR, GL, employee claims, fixed asset, expenses, liabilities and revenue
• Financial reporting and analysis
• Prepare and submit monthly financial statement and ensure compliance with local statutory requirements
• Prepare variance analysis and financial insights report and submit to UK Finance
• Participate and oversee in financial audits and annual budgeting process
• Review transfer pricing agreements
• Manage inter-company collection and payments
• Handling corporate tax computation for CP204
• Manage payroll and statutory payment for clients (MPS-half and EMS)
• Updating company information for company sectary related to company finance
• Update company information changes to bank and statutory bodies (Kastam, LHDN)
• Participate in integration process
• Checking of salary report and verifying bank file before requesting for approval (Alliance Bank and HSBC)
• Checking of EPF, Income Tax, SOSCO, EIS, HRDC, ZAKAT payment report and verifying the bank file before requesting for approval
• Work with external partners such as auditors, bank, tax consultant and company secretary to ensure regulatory compliance

To be truly effective you will...

• ACCA qualified accountant with demonstrable experience with Management Accounts
• Have experience working in complex financial environments with a multinational, multicurrency business
• Be highly focused and accurate with an uncompromising eye for detail
• Have a track record of delivering accurate work to deadlines in a fast-paced organisation, with excellent prioritisation and task management skills.
• Be able to communicate well with internal and external stakeholders, with the ability to influence and guide towards agreed outcomes.
• Have a high attention to detail, able to identify trends in data and analyse the impact with an eye on service improvements.
• Have high integrity, a role model for doing the right thing and commitment to high performance.
• Experience of NetSuite would be advantageous but full training will be provided

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

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