Jobs at Lhdn in Malaysia

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

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