48555BRReq No.:48555BRJob Description and Qualifications:

　　At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what’s possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world’s most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse, and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.

　　Based in our KL Accounting Center, you will be supporting the Company’s US GAAP financial reporting, working closely with operational and corporate stakeholders in the region.

　　About the role

　　Lead a team of 8 - 10, responsible for all accounting aspects of projects, and fixed assets in the SAP project system and fixed assets module to ensure compliance with corporate policy and finance standard, including:

　　ensuring projects established in SAP with the appropriate approval, monitoring the projects for timely capitalization, accurately recording revenue associated with Sale of Equipment projects, handling intercompany project billing, intercompany asset transfer, capital leasing projects, accurately recording fixed assets.

　　ensuring local book Fixed Assets subledger of all SAP entities in Air Products are maintained properly.

　　supporting Global Megaprojects review.

　　supporting M&A projects and SAP data migration related to projects and fixed assets.

　　posting of journal entries.

　　analysing reports, and balance sheet reconciliations and reviewing.

　　Coordination with other finance, business, and operation departments to process transactions and review master data, including project cost review, differentiating capital versus expense, estimating asset useful life, analyzing depreciation trend, etc.

　　Lead the team to solve the issues or handle the complex issue in Project and Fixed Assets realm, identify the potential exposure and work on remediation plan. 

　　Lead the team to provide process support with the goal of streamlining and simplifying accounting processes while ensuring accuracy and integrity of data. Seek the chance of automation.

　　Identify root cause and drive process improvements to rectify errors and process gaps. 

　　Support Team Manager to supervise the team to deliver the results and meet deadlines. 

　　Coach and train the subordinates, develop the people and the team.

　　Other duties assigned.

　　Requirements

　　Bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance (or equivalent), the professional accounting qualification is the plus. It is an added advantage if incumbent has a postgraduate qualification in accounting or business management.

　　Strong foundation in accounting principles and practices; knowledge of US GAAP and SOX standards is a plus; SAP knowledge and experience is necessary.

　　Related general accounting experience and knowledge in the areas of Project Accounting or Fixed Assets Accounting for more than 5 years is expected. A basic understanding of the shared service environment is a plus.

　　The Incumbent is expected to have over 5 years’ experience on people management, have proven problem solving and project management skill.

　　Good interpersonal and communication skills, strong desire to learn, independent initiative, customer focus, adaptability to change, and a proven ability to effectively analyze and solve the problems in the daily operation.

　　With experience in managing a team from his/her prior supervisory experience in some related but varied functions.

　　Additional language skill (e.g. Mandarin, Spanish etc) is a plus.

　　Additional automation skills (eg: Qlik Sense, QlikView, BW, Python, VBA, etc.) is a plus.

　　Who we are

　　At Air Products, we work in an environment where diversity is crucial, inclusion is in our culture, and each person knows they belong and matter!

　　You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or veteran status.

　　We look forward to hearing from you!

　　Job Title:Team Lead-Fixed Assets and Project AccountingEmployment Status:Full TimeLocation:AS-MY-Kuala LumpurCountry:MalaysiaRegion:AsiaOrganization:CorporateBusiness Sector / Division:Finance