Finance Officer

The Finance Officer provides vital financial and administrative support, managing the Institute’s income and expenditure. Key responsibilities include overseeing accounting processes, processing payroll, maintaining accurate financial records, and performing bank and balance sheet reconciliations. Your daily duties will be decided in discussion and collaboration with Management. Your role also requires the accurate entry of all transactions into the accounting software. The Finance Officer is also responsible for liaising with the external accountant and auditors for reporting and compliance. You are expected to work closely with other members in the Administration Unit for effective and desirable outcomes from your work, and particularly with the Director of Operations to ensure transparent and accountable financial outcomes.

Duties and Responsibilities

  1. To accurately record all financial transactions digitally and maintaining a bookkeeping record and ledger for auditing purposes
  2. To prepare balance sheets and reconciling bank statements
  3. To process invoices, monitor payment and issue official receipts
  4. To record accounts payable and accounts receivable
  5. To assist in the preparation of budgets
  6. To deal with payroll, expenses, statutory contributions as well as relevant taxes
  7. To monitor updates and changes in statutory deductions/ declarations requirements and formats
  8. To participate in financial audits
  9. To assist with the implementation of financial policies

Minimum Requirement and Experience Required:

  • Must hold NRIC (including MyPR)
  • TVET graduate with or without a Diploma and/or certificate are welcome to apply
  • Well-versed with Malaysia’s statutory deduction requirement and procedures
  • Well-versed with e-invoicing requirement and procedures
  • Must have minimum 5 years’ working experience in accounting or financial management, not including experience gained during undergraduate or post-graduate studies
  • Must be a person with high integrity, accountability and trustworthiness
  • Must be a person that pays high attention to detail
  • Applicants with declarations requirement for donations and sponsorship received will be an added advantage
  • Applicants with knowledge in SAGE accounting software or equivalent will be an added advantage

Please send in your application to
application@penanginstitute.org

Kindly attach your Cover Letter and CV for us to process your application. Incomplete applications will not be entertained.