Statutory Lead

bakerhughes; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Life insurance

Disability programs

Flexible working patterns

Job summary

Baker Hughes is seeking a Finance Specialist - Accounting Operations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You will lead statutory accounting, ensure compliance, and drive efficient financial processes while coaching a diverse team.

The role emphasizes accurate reporting and strong cross-functional collaboration across finance, operations, tax and legal teams. The position requires 5–8 years of experience, a relevant accounting degree, and professional qualifications (ACCA/CA/CPA).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting is required.
• ACCA, CA or CPA qualification preferred.
• Strong statutory reporting and audit coordination experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and coach a diverse team with ongoing learning and development.
• Collaborate within the team and support priorities and strategic initiatives.
• Manage execution of compliant statutory financial audits.
• Evaluate and improve efficiency of statutory accounting processes.
• Review statutory financial statements for accuracy and compliance.

Skills

Statutory reporting

Audit coordination

Financial analysis

Management reporting

People leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

ACCA/CA/CPA qualification

Tools

SAP

Hyperion

Job description

Be part of a team that keeps moving

Our Global Finance Operations Team provides support for the business for technical accounting compliance, financial and operational internal controls, process simplification, and operational excellence to deliver accurate actual financial reporting and analysis.

Partner with the best

As a statutory lead, you are responsible to driving technical accounting compliance, financial and operational internal controls, process simplification, and operational excellence to deliver accurate and compliant statutory financial statements. This role is essential to ensure financial compliance and optimizing the efficiency of the statutory process.

Key responsibilities include

• Develop and coach a diverse team, ensuring continuous learning, individual and team development.
• Collaborate within the team and contribute to shared goals and proactively supporting the execution of priorities and strategic initiatives in ensuring team’s priorities are achieved.
• Managing the execution of compliant and efficient statutory financial audits
• Evaluating, maintaining and improving the efficiency of financial and statutory accounting processes
• Reviewing statutory financial statements and audit pack for accuracy and compliance with local statutory accounting standards and regulations
• Executing on audit requests by working closely with functional team, operations, tax, legal, company secretary and finance
• Investigating any audit issue to allow resolution with supporting documentationl>
• Monitoring analytical support, and variance analysis for S2G Walk

Fuel your passion

• To be successful in this role you will:
• Strong statutory and financial reporting experience, including audit coordination and compliance.
• Solid capability in financial analysis and analytical review.
• Proven skill in producing accurate, timely management reporting.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting plus ACCA, CA, or CPA qualification.
• 5–8 years’ experience, either with 2–5 years in people leadership or equivalent technical depth as an individual contributor.
• Good communication skills in English

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

Occasional home working possible.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Finance Specialist - Accounting Operations