Finance Operations Analyst Manager
Job Summary
This is a hands-on finance operations role focused on the daily cash cycle, reconciliations, invoicing, and tax compliance. You will be responsible for managing financial processes and actively improving them through AI tools and automation. The position requires a proactive mindset to eliminate manual work and ensure high financial accuracy.
Responsibilities
- Manage daily cash cycles and bank reconciliations
- Oversee customer invoicing and collections
- Ensure tax compliance (SST and corporate tax)
- Maintain and optimize financial SOPs
- Implement AI and automation to improve workflows
Required Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 3-5 years experience in finance operations
- Proficiency in cloud accounting software (Xero/QuickBooks)
- Strong Excel and data analysis skills
- Experience using AI tools for process improvement
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Daily cash movement reconciliation — own it end-to-end, every day.
- Virtual account balance accuracy for each customer — completeness is non-negotiable.
- Customer invoicing and collections management.
- Monthly bank reconciliation, cash flow forecasting, and balance sheet schedules.
- Indirect tax (SST) and corporate tax matters — timely, accurate, no surprises.
- Timely financial reports, statements, and forecasts for internal and external stakeholders.
- SOPs — write them, review them, enforce them, and improve them when they're not working.
- External relationships: auditors, tax consultants, banks — you are the point of contact.
- Identifying manual, repetitive workflows and eliminating them using AI tools, automation, or smarter process design.
Qualifications & experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, and/or professional qualification (ACCA, CPA, ICAEW, MICPA).
- 3–5 years in finance operations — AP/AR, reconciliations, GL, month-end close. A controllership or audit background is a strong plus.
- Solid grasp of Malaysian statutory requirements: SST, withholding tax, financial reporting standards.
- Hands-on experience with cloud accounting systems — Xero, QuickBooks, or equivalent.
- Strong Excel skills; comfort working with data across multiple systems.
- Fluent in English and Malay — written and spoken.
Mindset & approach:
- You've already used AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot) to get real work done faster.
- Manual reconciliations frustrate you because you know there's a better way.
- You set your own priorities, raise issues proactively, and don't wait to be told what needs fixing.
- You've worked in a startup or lean team and know what it actually means to be hands-on.
- You treat accuracy as a personal standard, not a job requirement.