Position: Senior Account Executive

Location: Damansara Heights

Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable Support

• Provides comprehensive support to the Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) teams, ensuring smooth workflow and efficient processing of invoices, payments, and collections.
• Assists with data entry, verification, and processing of invoices and payments within established timelines.
• Steps in to handle AP or AR tasks during staff absences or peak workloads, ensuring continuity of operations.
• Contributes to maintaining accurate and timely financial records through reconciliation activities and data management support.

General Ledger Function

• Maintains the accuracy and integrity of the general ledger by verifying journal entries and transaction coding (GL codes, cost centers, activity codes).
• Prepares and analyzes balance sheet accounts and profit and loss accounts to identify variances and support monthly management reporting, audit reports, and tax preparation.
• Proactively identifies and addresses transaction anomalies, keeping section heads informed.

Tax Preparation and Audit Support

• Assists with gathering and compiling financial data required for tax preparation and audit purposes.
• Prepares reconciliations and schedules to support tax filing and facilitate the audit process.
• Works collaboratively with external tax preparers and auditors to ensure accurate and timely completion of tax returns and audit reports.

Management Reporting & Budgeting Function

• Prepares a variety of financial reports, including budgets, fixed overhead reports, monthly management accounts, and monthly financial statements.
• Monitors actual performance against budgets and identifies variances.
• Creates ad-hoc reports upon request to provide management with the necessary financial data for informed decision-making.
• Analyzes financial data to identify trends and support financial planning and forecasting activities.

Financial Close Process Improvement

• Continuously identifies opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the financial closing process.
• Implements best practices and updates workflow procedures and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to optimize the closing process and ensure smooth audit preparation.

Cross-Functional Support

• Provides periodic cross-functional support to the Bursary function for tasks such as funds transfer, approval, and operations.
• Assists the operations function with front-end business support as needed.
• Takes on ad-hoc assignments as requested by management.

MINIMUM ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

• Bachelor’s Degree, Post Graduate Diploma, Professional Degree
• Preferrable 2 Year(s) of working experience in the related field
• Excellent communication skills and team player
• Strong understanding of accounting, finance, and management principles
• Exceptional math skills
• Proficiency with computers, especially SAP system and MS Office
• High Level of efficiency and accuracy
• Attention to detail and ability to analyze large amounts of data

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES)

Tool skills

• Job-related applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Google, Power Point, SAP)

Organisational Competency

• Self-starting, Team Player, PR skills, Alertness.

Communicative Competency

• Error-free oral communicative competence in English

DESIRABLE ATTRIBUTES (BEHAVIOURAL)

• Able to work under pressure
• Able to handle and solve issues
• Have positive attitude to learn new things and makes efforts to obtain new information.