- Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory Malaysia
Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Accounting - Consolidation Lead di Opella Federal Territory - Maukerja
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They make sure the Japan business’s accounting is correct, compliant, and completed on time. They oversee areas like month-end closing, financial reporting, tax/intercompany, inventory/assets and treasury, while working with the global shared-services team to fix issues and improve/automate processes.
Our Requirements
Our Requirements
- 8–10 years’ accounting/A2R experience, ideally in a large international company or GBS/shared-services environment.
- Strong experience with month-end closing and financial reporting.
- Solid knowledge of IFRS + Japanese/local GAAP. (Japanese Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.)
- Hands-on knowledge of SAP FICO.
- Experience across asset & inventory accounting, tax/intercompany, treasury and GL/closing.
- Strong compliance, audit and SOX/internal controls experience.
- Fluent English — mandatory.
- Japanese language skills — strongly preferred, particularly for local stakeholders and statutory requirements.
- Finance/Accounting degree; CPA/ACCA or equivalent is a plus.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Able to work independently, take ownership and lead/coordinate teams.
- Experience driving process improvement, simplification and automation.
- Comfortable working with global/remote teams and shared-service organizations.
- Strong accounting/A2R experience is the top priority, particularly a well-rounded accounting background beyond AP/AR or a single accounting stream.
- Senior stakeholder management is critical, especially the ability to work effectively with demanding Japanese stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to adapt to the Japanese communication style are important.
- Japanese proficiency is required at a fluent/business level, including speaking and reading, with the ability to communicate independently.
- Prior Japan market experience is not mandatory.
- Open to candidates with strong accounting/A2R backgrounds even without Japan experience.
- Pharma or FMCG/consumer experience is not required.
- SAP FICO is a must-have.
- The environment is complex, with legacy ERP systems, manual reporting and processes that require significant navigation.
- APOC experience is not required, but candidates need to be comfortable working in complex systems and processes.
- Simplifying and navigating complex accounting processes and systems.
- Managing a high volume of manual reporting.
- Building strong relationships with demanding local Japanese stakeholders.
- Working effectively across the Japan and Malaysia hub teams.
- Become the main accounting SPOC for Japan stakeholders.
- Be able to independently handle around 80% of accounting-related queries.
- Build strong credibility and trust with the Japan team.
- Receive positive feedback from local stakeholders, particularly around communication, responsiveness and quality of support.
- Demonstrate strong ownership and autonomy rather than requiring constant direction.
- Strong A2R/accounting foundation with broad accounting knowledge.
- Big Four profiles could be a good fit, particularly candidates who are comfortable challenging the status quo.
- Agile, responsive and autonomous.
- Strong ownership and a challenger mindset.
- Able to navigate organisational complexity and work across both local and hub teams.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, particularly with Japanese stakeholders.
- Not necessarily someone focused on highly technical areas such as M&A; the priority is strong accounting partnering, ownership and stakeholder management.
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