Job Description

Salary MYR48,000 - MYR66,000 per annum + Market Aligned

Location Petaling Jaya FULL_TIME

Consultant Jason Pang

Job Ref N97PDE-66BE4EA2

Date posted 04 July 2023 petaling-jaya accountancy-finance/group-accountant 2023-07-04 2023-09-02 automotive Petaling Jaya MY MYR 48000 66000 66000 YEAR Robert Walters https://www.robertwalters.com.my https://www.robertwalters.com.my/content/dam/robert-walters/global/images/logos/web-logos/square-logo.png true

An Executive, General Ledger job has become available at a company in automotive industry based in Petaling Jaya.

About the Executive, General Ledger Role:
As the Executive, General Ledger, you will mainly be involved in handling the general ledger related matters for the company.

Key Responsibilities:

General Ledger

• Ensure that accounting processes and journal entries are in accordance with relevant accounting principles, internal controls, and group policy as applicable
• Monitor accrual/provisioning amounts on a regular basis
• Ensure that journal entries are supported with relevant documents for verification and approval purpose and no omission of journal entries posting to General Ledger
• Ensure all documents are validated and processed before month-end closing or stipulated deadline
• Ensure credit note, commission, customer refunds and staff claims are posted accurately and processed on timely manner
• Check overtrades support claim to ensure accuracy and timely follow up
• Attend to urgent request from business units and resolve operations issue
• Work closely with Northern and Perak Finance Operations team to ensure completeness of inter-company transactions accounted in respective company\'s book
• Work with functional stakeholders to suggest modifications to processes, coordinate new products and implement relevant system functionality within the finance operations function
• Prepare relevant schedules and reports for the compilation of additional financial information
• Analyse and comment on the Management Report for the Manager, Finance Operations
• Meet deadlines set by management on month-end close and reporting
• Assist in checking accuracy of budget information uploaded into HFM and highlight or query on any unusual trend

Changes on monthly basis

• Review changes in the balance sheet, income statement items and reasonableness of vehicle gross profit margin
• Make necessary inquiry on unusual expenses or trend
• Conduct ageing analysis and review on clearing accounts as applicable
• Work with business units to ensure reconciling items and clearing accounts items are follow up and rectify on a timely basis

Transformation and digitisation

• Participate in the development of process improvement in finance and uphold modernisation of finance skill sets. Digitise inefficiencies from existing processes
• Propose new working methods to reduce timelines and to increase Finance service level to business units or other operations function

Control procedures, general ledger reconciliation and SOP

• Maintain strong compliance of control procedures, i.e. LOA in carrying out daily tasks
• Ensure timely preparation of reconciliations, i.e. inter-companies and third party receivable to ensure all transactions have been accounted for within the group
• Ensure control amount in general ledger accurately tied to sub ledger, to achieve zero balance variance
• Participate in annual stock take (parts and vehicle) and review reconciliation between system record and physical count
• Ensure reconciliation and clearing accounts items are cleared on timely basis, i.e. within reasonable ageing bucket
• Ensure SOP is update on timely basis to ensure they stay relevant to the current need of the group

Audit and tax computation

• Ensure timely preparation of the audit and tax schedules
• Manage internal and external auditors request on topics relating specifically to the group

To succeed in this Executive, General Ledger role, you must have great interpersonal and communication skills to handle challenging discussions with diplomacy and logic.

Key Requirements:

• Three or more years finance experience in a progressively growing capacity
• Diploma/degree (any level), preferably in finance, and/or Accounting qualification (any type)
• Strong internal controls background, industry knowledge of best practice for finance operations
• Strong command of written and verbal English
• Proven in growing a team and implementing transformation with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Good time-management skills and able to manage task in a systematic manner
• Ability to simplify and communicate effectively
• Critical thinker and meticulous.

This leading company has an outstanding reputation and needs no introduction. They are one of the leaders in the automotive industry with a strong presence in the market. The firm is also very focused on developing and training their people to the highest standards.

If you are a team player, highly motivated, proactive, and creative, this is the role for you to accelerate your career. Great career progression opportunities await the right person in this exciting Executive, General Ledger role.

Robert Walters