General Ledger Team Lead
Michael Page
- Kuala Lumpur
- RM 120,000-144,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Review and approve manual journal entries for general & administrative expenses, including audit and taxation fees, legal costs, and other miscellaneous expenses.
- Review balance sheet reconciliations relating to prepayments, deposits, other assets and liabilities.
- Review VAT netting & settlement entries by accountants/analysts.
- Supervise the Cost Center Assessment/Allocation (CCA) maintenance work in SAP based on input from relevant departments. Liaise with external and internal stakeholders
- Identify root cause, propose and implement process improvements (including coordinating with other functional teams where required) to rectify known errors at source, to the extent possible.
- Lead process standardization initiatives for GL/overhead accounting work centralized in KL SSC.
- Review commentary of significant fluctuations for general & administrative expenses, deposits, prepayments, other receivables, and loan accounts in monthly income statement and balance sheet review.
- Review Quarterly Schedules to support disclosure requirements
- Review SAP/BW reports to support local GAAP/tax preparation.
- Provide explanations and supporting documents to external auditors as necessary.
- Other ad hoc tasks assigned by management as and when required.
- Leading process improvements to rectify errors and process gaps.
- Driving standardization of GL/overhead accounting processes.
- Bachelor's degree in accounting and finance (or equivalent)
- Professional accounting qualification (CPA/ACCA or equivalent)
- At least 8+ years of working experience in audit or finance-related working experience in multinational company with SAP knowledge. Past experience in leadership roles is a plus
- Strong foundation in accounting principles and practices; US GAAP knowledge is a plus
- Self-motivated team player with effective interpersonal and communication skills, and high ethical standards
- Great opportunity to work for the MNC company in the world
- International and virtual environment
- Flexibility and great opportunity to learn
- Tempting Compensation and benefits