Finance Manager

The Main Purpose of the job is responsible for all the GAC Malaysia Finance related matters and to ensure all financial activities are carried out in a timely, economical, accurate and professional manner

Job Description

1. Financial Performance monitoring and reporting

• Monitor company's financial performance and promptly highlight to management positive and negative trends and improvement opportunities.

• Ensure that monthly reports are prepared and submitted as per GAC financial guide to Top Management:

• Prepare various reports as required by the management and submit them in a timely manner

• Inform Management of any developments related to tax regulations, government financial policies, banking practices, and interest rates which could potentially impact the company and/or could be potentially capitalized by the company.

2. Budgeting

• Prepare Company budget with the MD and ensure that the budget is controlled and updated on timely basis

3. Accounts Receivables and Payables

• Ensure that weekly credit statements (receivables) are prepared and submitted to MD and HOD's and aggressive follow-up on receivables are carried out.

• Ensure timely and accurate reconciliation of all receivables and payable accounts.

• Liaise with MD and HOD's in connection with all financial matters pertaining to principals, clients and subcontractors. (Including Logistics dept credit control-investments-liabilities)

• Regularly meet with Customer Service and Sales team to collectively review billing and outstanding issues/practices.

4. Payroll processing

• Ensure payroll is processed in a timely and accurate manner as well as ensure the integrity and confidentiality of Payroll related information

5. Finance Team management and Development

• Stimulate Finance team and ensure that all necessary tools are available in order to meet the operational requirements

• Develop the standard of knowledge of accounts staff regarding financial procedures

6. Improvement  Initiatives

• Constantly assess opportunities to improve cash flow, streamline invoicing, collections and receivables process and suggest/implement initiatives in line with the identified opportunities.

• Identify and suggest new methods and ways to cut costs within company as well as Implement and follow-up on cost reduction programmers.

• Regularly review implemented procedures with finance team and management to ensure that processes in place are "best fit" for the scope of work and actively

• Suggest procedure changes to improve performance.

7. General

• Develop and maintain positive contact with local finance team, head-office, principals, sub-contractors and clients.

• Ensure that any/all financial reporting correspondence to the above mentioned is efficient, punctual and professional.

• Pro-actively generate, investigate ORF's & ensure the standard of all related procedures ate maintained.

• Encourage finance staff to proactively raise ORFs.

• Carry out all other activities as assigned by superiors

• Professional accounting qualification (CPA, CIMA, CA, CFA etc)

• Minimum 5 years accounting experience in a similar role (logistic Industry experience is desirable)

• Ability to set measurable targets, make plans to progress to their fruition and report feedback within the time frames provided

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• Able to work independently, team player, able to multi-task, self - motivated, work independently, work under pressure and make quick decision to solve problem issue.
• Computer literacy in windows environment. Software knowledge of Microsoft office