Job Summary:
The Account Manager is a key financial role responsible for overseeing and managing the financial health of Cancer Research Malaysia. This position involves a broad range of responsibilities, including account management, treasury, project accounting, taxation, and corporate secretarial matters. The ideal candidate will be a highly organized, detail-oriented professional with strong analytical and communication skills.
Key Responsibilities
Account Management:
- Monitor account balances and transactions, ensuring accuracy and compliance with internal policies and procedures.
- Prepare and present regular financial reports to the CFO and other stakeholders.
- Manage and reconcile intercompany transactions.
Treasury:
- Manage the organization's cash flow, ensuring adequate liquidity to meet operational needs.
- Monitor and forecast cash positions.
- Oversee banking relationships and manage bank accounts.
Project Accounting:
- Oversee the financial management of projects, ensuring compliance with funding requirements and internal budgets.
- Track project expenditures and prepare project-specific financial reports.
- Work closely with project managers to monitor project budgets and identify any financial risks.
Taxation:
- Manage all aspects of taxation, including the preparation and filing of tax returns
- Ensure compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations.
- Liaise with tax authorities and external tax advisors.
Corporate Secretarial Matters:
- Ensure compliance with the Companies Act and other relevant regulations.
- Liaise with corporate secretary for corporate secretarial matters
- Organize board meetings, including the preparation of agendas and minutes.
Financial Management:
- Assist in the preparation of annual budgets and financial forecasts.
- Monitor budget performance and provide variance analysis.
- Develop and implement internal controls to safeguard the organization's assets.
- Participate in audits and liaise with external auditors.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACCA, CPA, MIA) is highly desirable.
- 10 years of relevant experience in a similar role
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting standards (MFRS), and tax regulations in Malaysia.
- Experience in treasury management, project accounting, and corporate secretarial practices.
- Proficiency in accounting software and Microsoft Excel.
Skills and Competencies
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
- High level of integrity and ethical standards.
About the Company
Cancer Research Malaysia
We are an independent and non-profit cancer research organisation based in Malaysia. Funded by donations and research grants, we conduct research in niche cancers often found in our Asian population.
Cancer — the big ‘C’ — continues to be a stigma, only spoken about in hushed whispers; how it’s bad karma, how much it costs, and that nothing could be done.
Confronting this stigma head on, CRM has been reversing this language of cancer, transforming the big ‘C’ to a little ‘c’, and we plan to develop tools backed by good research to ensure that we can truly fight cancer on all fronts.
We believe that we will reverse the grip of cancer in our lives. We want researchers to win the war against cancer by turning it around with new ways of prevention and cure. We want to empower the public through impactful outreach programmes, with the hopes that Malaysians will respond differently to cancer by coming forward for screenings and going through with treatments.
Our driving force is held together by these goals:
- Improving the survival rates of Asian cancer patients, focusing on neglected areas of research.
- Empowering Asians to have the proper screening and treatment.
- Improving survival rates by being more accessible, focusing on providing existing cures to patients rather than sit on inaction and potentially losing lives.
- Making affordable and timely treatments by repurposing drugs, acknowledging the reality that developing new cures are costly and risky.
- Putting Malaysia in the global spotlight for cancer research by collaborating with top scientists around the world,and working to nurture the next generation of Malaysian cancer researchers.