Mission
As a Finance Controller, to optimize the management duties and assist in making decisions which contribute to lasting profitability.
Act as a counter-power, alerting as needed and proposing corrective actions.
Ensure that all accounting records reflect precisely the business reality and adhere to both company standards and local tax and accounting regulations.
Communicate accounting figures simply and effectively to operational contacts.
Challenge current practices, if needed, and propose new approaches.
Be a reference in terms of business & analysis.
Job Duties
Business partner: Contribute to the logistics management team’s decision making
- Have a deep understanding of the logistics business activity, its constraints, rhythm and risks related to its business activity.
- Generate an overall Profit and Loss report each month that triggers speedy decisions.
- Know the key indicators of the logistics scope of operations and create action plans, together with the logistics managers, to improve them.
- Participate regularly in operational meetings; the quality and relevance of your meeting contributions make them sought after by the team.
- Through training, boost your co-workers’ finance-related skills.
Management Accounting: Ensure financial forecasts are reliable and optimize management processes within your scope of responsibility.
- Promote a spirit of low costs and simplicity: Seek to optimize the logistics expenses using cost breakdown analysis, improving fixed costs, and sharing best practices within your scope of responsibility.
- Help the logistics team to ensure the reliability of forecasts (Activity, expenses, Investment planning).
- Together with logistics management team, create a list of operational KPIs to keep track of logistics performance.
- Regularly go over the 12-month rolling piloting and 5 year trajectory planned in order to facilitate the budgeting process and evaluate current performance.
- Make wise investment decisions using simple tools (e.g. Cost benefit analysis, Return on Investment).
- Alert if needed on stock and flow indicators (Stock levels, rotations, etc.).
Financial Accounting: Ensure reliable financial information
- Be in charge of local operating expenses for payroll (with Payroll service provider) and personnel expenses claims (through internal IT systems).
- Ensure that the Profit and Loss accounts accurately reflect monthly income and expenses, and comply with company’s standards and local standards (Malaysian GAAP).
- Gather and identify business activity risks and reflect them in the financial books.
- Ensure the completeness, existence and accuracy of fixed assets and inventories with the help of logistics operations managers.
- Provide relevant reporting to Tax and corporate authorities, external auditors regarding the financial information of the company.
- Ensure documents are well archived and available upon request (Corporate and Statutory information, Contracts and agreements with suppliers, etc.).
- Be familiar with internal controls and processes; train team members and monitor their application of those processes.
- Critically evaluate processes in order to find weak spots and take actions to improve them.
Profile
- Sports-Lover.
- Ex. Finance Controller for a company operating a warehouse or factory.
- Knowledgeable on Accounting, Tax and Compliance for Malaysian entity.
- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Malaysia Institute of Accountant (MIA) (add advantages).
Skills
- SAP
- COST CONTROL
- COST ANALYSIS
- DECISION MAKING
- NEGOTIATION
- FINANCE
- FORECASTING