Position:Â Senior Account Executive
Location:Â 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.