R2R Senior Specialist - Assets (Japanese speaker)

Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association; Selangor; Hybrid; MYR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Malaysia is seeking a finance expert to provide support for financial activities and compliance. The role requires fluent English and Japanese, with a minimum of 6 years of experience in finance processes. Responsibilities include maintaining fixed asset records, reporting accuracy, and contributing to financial projects. The ideal candidate will demonstrate critical thinking and effective communication skills.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English and Japanese both written and spoken, excellent communication skills.
• At least 6 years of relevant experience in finance processes.

Responsibilities

• Support financial activities, decision making and general projects.
• Maintain accurate fixed asset information in the register.
• Provide timely support on the general ledger.
• Prepare reports emphasizing accuracy and compliance.
• Contribute to key projects at country or BU level.

Skills

Compliance And Controls

Continuous Process Improvement

Critical Thinking

Data Cleansing / Normalization

Embracing Change

Financial Accounting

Financial And Management Reporting

Rapid Problem Solving

Resilience

Tax

Education

University level degree Finance/Accounting

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Description Summary

#LI-Hybrid
To provide expert advice to superiors for a sub-area within FSC and related key activities; to ensure compliance with external and internal accounting reporting requirements in a timely and accurate manner. The specialist is to support Japan market (commercial entity and manufacturing plant entity) for Fixed Asset process.

Job Description

Major accountabilities:

• Work with direct managers to support financial activities, decision making and general projects.
• Provide timely, proactive support on the general ledger.
• Maintain accurate and timely fixed asset information in the fixed asset register including assets under construction and depreciation calculations.
• Prepare analysis or reporting with particular emphasis on accuracy, compliance and timeliness of data provided (i.e.: reports on profit and loss activity).
• Provide all data needed for internal (Financial Consolidation and Reporting System) and external reporting (including statutory accounts, national statistics and tax information) in a timely and accurate manner.
• Provides ‘first line support’ on SAP issues including fixed assets, cash and general ledger.
• Contribute to key projects at country or BU level.
• Act as SPOCs / SME for Asset Management process and contribute / spearhead for projects / issues resolution.

Key performance indicators:

• Internal customer satisfaction with quality, appropriateness, and timeliness of financial analyses provided -Customer satisfaction of service delivery and process specific KPIs in accordance with agreed SLAs

Minimum Requirements:

• University level degree Finance/Accounting or any related field.

• Fluent in English and Japanese both written and spoken, excellent communication skills. Other languages are a plus.

• At least 6 years of relevant experience, with good functional exposure to finance processes (R2R, Fixed Assets, Financial Compliance and Control, Management Reporting, Technical Accounting). Previous experience within financial shared service centers is desirable.

• Conceptual thinking and ability to align specific functional requirements with the overall finance strategy.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-national organization.

Skills:

• Compliance And Controls.
• Continuous Process Improvement.
• Critical Thinking.
• Data Cleansing / Normalization.
• Embracing Change.
• Financial Accounting.
• Financial And Management Reporting.
• Rapid Problem Solving.
• Resilience.
• Tax.

Languages :

• Japanese
• English.

Skills Desired

Compliance And Controls, Continuous Process Improvement, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Embracing Change, Financial Accounting, Financial And Management Reporting, Rapid Problem Solving, Resilience, Tax