Assistant Financial Accountant

Mintel is the world’s leading market intelligence agency. Our analysis of consumers, markets, new products, and competitive landscapes provides a unique perspective on global and local economies. Since 1972, our predictive analytics and expert recommendations have enabled our clients to make better business decisions faster. Our purpose is to help businesses and people grow. Our fast-growing office in Kuala Lumpur is both our regional hub for our APAC business as well as a Global Shared Service Centre.

We are looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Assistant Financial Accountant to join our finance team, supporting revenue and commission accounting activities across multiple markets. This role plays a key part in ensuring accurate revenue reporting, supporting month-end close processes and performance analysis, and maintaining strong compliance with accounting standards. The ideal candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams including Commercial, Legal, and Billing, while contributing to process improvements and operational efficiency in a dynamic, multinational environment.

Responsibilities:
• Maintain weekly revenue reconciliations for each market to support sales performance reporting and invoicing processing. 
• Prepare journals for revenue accruals, deferrals, and adjustments.
• Support monthly/quarterly/annual close activities including revenue recognition checks. 
• Assist in ensuring compliance with appropriate revenue recognition standards.
• Assist in the preparation of intercompany revenue matching and reconciliation.
• Preparation of monthly calculation of sales commissions.
• Support statutory audits by preparing audit deliverables and resolving queries.
• Provide support to regional finance teams during budgeting and forecasting cycles.
• Assist in ad hoc financial analysis relating to pricing, customer contracts or product line.
• Contribute to process improvement by identifying gaps and propose enhancements in operational & accounting processes, controls, and documentation.
• Work across departmental teams dealing with Sales, Legal, Customer Success, Contracts Processing and Billing teams. 
• Perform any other ad-hoc duties as assigned by superior.

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline.
• Professional qualification or progress toward ACCA/CPA/CA is preferred.
• 1–3 years of relevant accounting experience, ideally in a multinational environment or SSC setting.
• Solid understanding of accounting principles, month‑end close processes, and statutory reporting.
• Experience with audit support, tax compliance, and balance sheet management.
• Proficient in MS Office and Power BI. Intermediate to advance MS Excel skills. 
• Proficiency in accounting systems. Experience in NetSuite and MS Dynamics is highly desirable. 
• Familiarity with financial reporting tools and automation initiatives is beneficial.
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and commitment to deadlines.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and cultures. Mandarin speaker will be a plus.
• Proactive, organised, and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Problem‑solving mindset with willingness to learn and improve processes
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a face-paced environment.
• Flexible to work when required during Malaysia public holidays in which replacement holidays will be provided. 
• Flexible to work on staggered hours to support UK & US timing

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