Assistant Manager, Finance (FICOM Finance & Tax Accounting)

Assistant Manager, Finance (FICOM Finance & Tax Accounting)

Managing the Finance team to perform book close and financial reporting for Malaysia legal entity CMA CGM FiCOM Sdn. Bhd. (FiCOM) and oversee a tax accounting team who responsible for the preparation of Singapore GST returns for designated Singapore entities.

Key Result Areas

Key support Finance Manager (FM) in managing the team :

FiCOM Finance (CMA CGM FICOM)

Overseeing the legal organization structure set up in Malaysia i.e. CMA CGM FICOM Sdn Bhd (FiCOM) to ensure that equity shareholdings, legal and statutory requirements are maintained at all time to satisfy condition set by local authorities. This cover FiCOM centre.

Maintain internal control structure and to ensure that the FiCOM’s books and records are fairly stated and fulfils audit and local tax requirement. This includes co-coordinating the yearly audit and tax submission exercise.

Maintain proper record of service agreements and to ensure proper documentation of agreements on shared services.

Ensure that corporate reporting requirements on period close and year end external audit package are submitted on time.

Supervise the team to provide quality support based on respective process owners’ requirements, including setting up of new cost centres, clearing of ICO, presentation slides and all expects of Regional and Head Office (HO) reporting queries and requirements.

Support centre’s projects and process improvement initiatives.

Tax Accounting

Lead and mentor a team to ensure timely and accurate preparation of quarterly GST returns for the designated Singapore entities.

Foster collaboration among stakeholders to resolve issues promptly and effectively.

Oversee trend analysis and provide strategic insights on quarter-to-quarter (QtQ) and year-to-year (YtY) variances.

Job Responsibilities :

FiCOM Finance (CMA CGM FiCOM)

• Ensure the monthly period close process is in line with the timeline set by HO.
• Review the monthly journal entries, all schedules, reports and balance sheet reconciliation are prepared accurately and timely by the team lead.
• Review the monthly accounting and performance reports to respective process owners and highlight key variances.
• Monitor, guide, motivate and provide advice to the team member in preparing the journal entries and monthly schedules / reports.
• Monitor bank balance and ensure sufficient cashflow in FiCOM.
• Monitor and provide guidance to analyst in preparing cashflow forecast and ensure the cashflow forecast submitted and approved.
• Adhere to Budgetary Planning procedure rolled out by HO and coordinate with all departments for budgetary process inclusive of CAPEX.
• Align Budgetary and Forecasting processes with centre and corporate requirements.
• Ensure audited accounts, tax filing and transfer pricing documentation are filed after financial year end in compliance with local statutory requirements.
• Ensure process documentations are updated for all processes.
• Ensure updated chargeback mechanism is in line with respective service agreements.
• Submit tax forecasts and estimations timely to minimize tax exposure and penalties.
• Review the new local statutory filing requirements, including e-Invoice and Tax Pillar 2.
• Recommend and lead process improvements, including the digitization and automation of work processes where appropriate.
• Support Management with ad-hoc requests.

Tax Accounting

Job Requirements :

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