Manager – Cash Controller

Merchantrade Asia Sdn Bhd; Selangor; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Malaysia is seeking a Manager - Cash Controller to oversee daily cash operations and financial control processes. The ideal candidate should possess a bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, along with relevant certifications and significant experience in cash control and reconciliation within the fintech sector. The role emphasizes strong governance, accuracy in cash processes, and proactive risk management while collaborating closely with operations and other business units.

Qualifications

• Proven experience (6-8+ years) in cash control, reconciliation or treasury operations, including 2 years in a supervisory role.
• Strong expertise in cash governance, settlement operations, reconciliation, and financial controls within fintech.
• Experience in fintech, digital payments, or regulated financial institutions highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Implement strong control frameworks for cash-related processes.
• Monitor cash reconciliations ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Prepare monitoring tools for key control indicators.
• Assess financial processes for control gaps and risks.
• Oversee Group Cash Management for optimization.
• Review and optimize financial workflows.
• Participate in initiatives to simplify processes.
• Act as finance partner to Operations.
• Collaborate to validate data accuracy.
• Provide advisory insights to management.

Skills

Cash governance

Financial controls

Reconciliation

Operational risk assessment

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Professional certification (ACCA, CPA, ICAEW, CFA)

Job description

The Manager - Cash Controller supports daily cash operations, reconciliation accuracy, and financial control processes within the fintech environment. The role ensures timely visibility of cash positions, accurate matching of fund flows, and strong governance across settlement and reconciliation activities.

Responsibilities

• Implement strong control frameworks to ensure accuracy, integrity, and compliance on cash-related processes.
• Monitor cash-related reconciliations (daily/weekly/monthly) ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and resolution of all variances and exceptions.
• Prepare and update monitoring tools and dashboards that provide timely visibility of key control indicators and reconciliation health.
• Continuously assess existing financial processes to identify control gaps, operational risks, and opportunities for enhancement.
• Oversee Group Cash Management to drive optimization of cash utilisation.
• Oversee Group Credit Control and ensure Group exposure stays within credit appetite, approval matrix and highlight any credit risks.
• Review, streamline, and optimise financial workflows to enhance efficiency, speed, and data accuracy (reduce manual touchpoints and enhance scalability to support high transaction volumes).
• Actively participate in cross-functional initiatives to simplify end-to-end processes while maintaining high control standards.
• Be a change agent in the adoption of technology, automation, and data-driven solutions to improve reliability and scalability of financial operations.
• Act as the key finance partner to Operations and other business units, ensuring financial data accurately reflects operational realities.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to validate data accuracy and support a smooth, timely, and well-governed financial closing cycle.
• Proactively highlight potential/emerging risks, trends, and anomalies that may impact financial performance or decision-making, together with recommended mitigation steps.
• Provide early advisory insights to management to support proactive risk resolution and stronger cash and control governance.
• Promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, and cross-training to build organisational resilience and improve end-to-end process efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Professional certification (ACCA, CPA, ICAEW, CFA) and MIA preferred.
• Proven experience (6-8+ years) in cash control, reconciliation or treasury operations. 2 years in a supervisory role.
• Strong expertise in cash governance, settlement operations, reconciliation, and financial controls within fintech.
• Experience in fintech, digital payments, or regulated financial institutions highly advantageous.