Senior Financial Accountant

Application deadline
31 December 2025 , 16:59 CET
Country
Malaysia
Location
Kuala Lumpur
Workplace
Hybrid (office and home-working)
Working hours
Employment type
Permanent
Legal entity
Orsted Serv Malaysia Sdn

Why join?

Proven very high employee satisfaction and motivation

Attractive benefit package for you and your family

MY generous parental leave package

Generous health insurance offer

Join us in this role where you'll be responsible for a broad set of financial accounting and reporting processes concerning the Group's legal entities, incl. month-end closing, reconciliations, and statutory accounts, as well as performing internal controls. You'll also play a significant role in process optimisation, aided by your significant experience in the field.

Welcome to Financial Accounting & Controlling

You'll be part of Financial Accounting APAC, US Support, DE and Nordic team where you, together with your colleagues, will be responsible for delivering standardised, high quality, and timely accounting and reporting products within FAC.

As a team, we create a workplace culture centred around teamwork and development through close collaboration with our colleagues and stakeholders within and outside of the FAC department.

You'll play an important role in:

• Drafting full sets of local financial statements and working in continual close collaboration with our other service delivery team in FAC, Financial Controlling
• Preparing appropriate financial journals and reconciling your entities' accounts with respect to period-end close deadlines as well preparing governmental reporting
• Engaging with our external auditors, and providing high-quality audit documentation as part of our annual audit wheel
• Reporting on legal entities for group reporting purposes (IFRS) and maintaining a high-quality control environment
• Driving the continuous optimisation of financial reporting processes, specifically in connection with month-end and reporting systems with involvement in ad hoc projects

To succeed in the role, you:

• Have a bachelor's degree in accounting, controlling, or similar (ACA-qualified)
• Have extensive relevant experience working in a public accounting firm or a finance department in an international company, incl. thorough knowledge of IFRS; familiarity with German GAAP is an advantage.
• Fuent in written and spoken English at an academic level, with the ability to communicate complex financial matters clearly and effectively; proficiency in German is a plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) with experience using financial accounting ERPs such as SAP and Hyperion; knowledge of reporting tools like One Source and Cadency is a plus.
• Adapt well, take responsibility, are a self-starter. work collaboratively, and value teamwork across teams and countries.
• Demonstrate analytical thinking, logical reasoning, and the ability to critically assess information.

Maybe you've read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don't quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us

Send your application to us as soon as possible. We'll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we've found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.