Job Details:
Job Description:
This role support accounting activities within Hire To Retire Accounting team. The role's main responsibility is to support monthly financial close processes by ensuring timely and accurate financial statement balances. This includes posting and review payroll accounting entries, reconciliations and reporting, including year end audit processes.
Key Responsibilities:
• Support recurring monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities in payroll accounting areas, ensuring deliverables are completed accurately and on time.
• Prepare and maintain journal entries, reconciliations, supporting schedules, and account analysis.
• Review journal entries and reconciliations.
• Manage and govern end to end business processes, ensuring operational continuity and compliance including process improvements.
• Help ensure continuity of work and delivery quality across periods of change, transition, or evolving project demands.
• Operate effectively across recurring close activities and ad hoc support requests from broader accounting and finance stakeholders.
• Support project related accounting activities tied to business or finance transformation initiatives, ensuring deliverables are completed accurately and followed through to completion.
• Support testing, validation, issue identification, and go live readiness activities related to S/4 and other system or process changes.
• Provide thoughtful analysis and commentary that helps improve management understanding of recurring transactions, balance trends, and key accounting activity.
• Draft explanations for known or expected transactions and prepare for management review discussions by anticipating likely questions.
• Support effective preparation for controller and management review meetings by reviewing open questions, drafting responses, and aligning messaging with key stakeholders.
• Support recurring reporting processes related to other assets and liabilities, including transaction listings, reporting outputs, and analytical insights.
• Support recurring analytical reviews and threshold-based tests, including activities comparable to balance sheet percentage or materiality based analysis.
• Develop and apply AI, automation, and digital tool capabilities to improve process efficiency, reporting clarity, issue identification, and documentation support.
Qualifications:
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Accountancy or Masters Degree.
• Proficiency in accounting principles and standards, including IFRS and US GAAP.
• Demonstrated expertise in financial systems such as SAP S4 and Blackline.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial compliance requirements.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in a global organization, with a focus on accounting or audit.
• Certification in accounting (ACCA, CPA, ICAEW, MICPA, or equivalent) is highly desirable.
Preferred Qualifications
• Strong communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to work independently and under pressure in cross-functional, multicultural teams.
• Results-driven mindset with critical thinking skills to challenge the status quo and deliver high quality outcomes.
• Experience managing complex regulatory and financial compliance matters.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and adapt to dynamic environments while delivering results.
• Experience in project management and process improvement initiatives.
• Open mindset and passion for leveraging technology to drive financial efficiency and innovation.
• Familiarity with automation tools and technologies such as Power BI, Power Automate or Python.
Job Type:
Experienced Hire
Shift:
Shift 1 (Malaysia)
Primary Location:
Malaysia, Penang
Additional Locations:
Posting Statement:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
Position of Trust
N/A
Work Model for this Role
This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Intel is committed to Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) compliance and ethical hiring practices. We do not charge any fees during our hiring process. Candidates should never be required to pay recruitment fees, medical examination fees, or any other charges as a condition of employment. If you are asked to pay any fees during our hiring process, please report this immediately to your recruiter.
