Accounts Payable Assistant Manager

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

Job Responsibilities:

• Supervise the team to ensure that daily operations deliverables are met with the available resources and within the required SLA

• Verify and approve payment for interfacing to bank

• Review monthly, quarterly and yearly reporting for completeness and accuracy with robust action plan for resolving open items

• Review monthly KPI metrics and delivery on key AP metrics and goals

• Review Desktop Procedure and Company Code Protocol on a periodical basis

• Demonstrates good controllership and adherence to company policies and ICFR requirements

• Participate in any compliance audits and respond to audit queries if necessary Handle customer concern with end to end issue resolution

• Maintain relationships with internal and external parties especially affiliates by effective communication

• Actively participate in the implementation of projects

• Participate in system integration and testing

• Drive standardization and automation within the team

• Drive global initiatives and continuous improvement activities

• Assume the role as AP Process SME

• Monitor and manage team resource allocation (manage leave application and back up arrangement)

• Develop and coach team members for personal and professional growth Monitor team performance and provide constructive feedbacks and suggestions to line manager

• Manage & resolve conflicts with minimal impacts to operations

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensure AP functions operate in accordance with established process and procedures, in compliance with audit requirements

• Responsible team resource planning for smooth operations

• Delivers and monitors on key AP KPI

• Ensure that the Localization Page are updated and maintained timely

• Responsible for minimize process knowledge gap of team members

• Responsible for incoming migration projects and initiatives in driving process efficiency and effectiveness

• Establish good relationship with internal and external parties especially affiliates

Who You Are:

• Degree or Diploma or equivalent experience in Finance & Accounting/Commerce.

• Good communication skills and able to communicate effectively in English.

• At least 5 years of experience in transactional accounting teams, in a performance driven environment

• SAP knowledge or other ERP accounting systems and Google Docs tools.

• External experience in a shared service or business process outsourcing engagement will be preferable.

• Experience in handling Accounts Payable Transactions in SAP is an advantage.

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

The Roche Services & Solutions as well as People Support Solutions organisations located in Kuala Lumpur provide end-to-end business solutions for Finance, Procurement, IT, Communications, People & Culture (Human Resources) and beyond to our Roche colleagues across the APAC region. Today Roche employs altogether around 1100 employees in Malaysia.