Senior Accountant - Payment Operations & Projects

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Senior Accountant - Payment Operations & Projects

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Description:

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Regional Accounting team at Marsh. This role will be based in Kuala Lumpur. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

Senior Accountant – Payment Operations & Projects

The Senior Accountant – Payment Operations & Projects is responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payment authorization while supporting payment-related projects, process improvements, system enhancements, and control initiatives.

The role requires strong payment operations knowledge, attention to detail, stakeholder-management skills, and the ability to independently coordinate activities across internal teams and external parties.

In addition to business-as-usual payment responsibilities, the incumbent will play an active role in projects relating to payment processes, banking systems, payee bank-detail validation, automation, process optimization, and operational improvements.

This is an individual contributor position. People-management experience is not required.

The successful candidate, however, must be comfortable independently managing stakeholders, project activities, timelines, outstanding items, and deliverables.

We will count on you to:

Payment Request Review & Validation

• Review payment requests submitted by various departments to ensure completeness, accuracy, and appropriate supporting documentation.

• Ensure all requests comply with company policies, procedures, delegated authority, and internal control requirements.

• Identify discrepancies or documentation gaps and work with relevant stakeholders to resolve them promptly.

Payment Authorization

• Review and authorize payments through designated e-banking platforms

• Ensure payments are processed accurately, securely, and within agreed timelines.

• Ensure appropriate segregation of duties and compliance with payment-control procedures.

Sanctions & Compliance Checks

• Perform sanctions screening and verification of payees in accordance with company requirements and applicable sanctions-listing procedures.

• Escalate potential sanctions, compliance, or control issues to the appropriate stakeholders.

• Ensure adherence to internal financial controls and regulatory requirements.

Project Coordination & Implementation

• Participate in and support payment-related and finance-operation projects.

• Coordinate activities relating to:

• Payment-process improvements

• Banking-platform enhancements

• Payee and bank-detail validation

• System implementations or upgrades

• Automation and digitalization initiatives

• UAT and system testing

• Process migration and transition

• Workflow optimization

• Control enhancements

• Maintain project trackers, action logs, timelines, issue logs, and status updates.

• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to obtain required information and complete agreed deliverables.

• Monitor outstanding activities and proactively follow up to ensure timely completion.

• Identify project risks, dependencies, and operational issues and escalate where appropriate

Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with Finance, Treasury, Accounts Payable, business teams, banks, vendors, auditors, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Gather, consolidate, and organize information from multiple parties.

• Communicate requirements, issues, action items, and timelines clearly and effectively.

• Drive outstanding items toward resolution and ensure appropriate follow-up.

• Provide guidance and advice to colleagues on payment processes, documentation requirements, controls, and operational issues.

Process Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve payment processes, controls, workflows, and operational efficiency.

• Recommend practical improvements to enhance accuracy, reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and improve turnaround time.

• Participate in the design, testing, implementation, and stabilization of new or enhanced processes and systems.

• Support process standardization and documentation of operating procedures

Reporting & Outstanding Management

• Prepare and maintain weekly operational and project status reports.

• Track outstanding payment issues, project activities, action items, and deliverables.

• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to ensure timely closure of outstanding matters.

• Provide clear updates on progress, risks, issues, and pending actions.

Audit & Control Support

• Support internal and external audit requests by retrieving, organizing, and providing relevant payment-related documentation.

• Respond to audit inquiries and support the resolution of audit findings.

• Assist with quarterly control testing, documentation, and reporting requirements.

• Maintain appropriate documentation and audit trails.

Ad-hoc Projects & Initiatives

• Support additional projects relating to payment operations, banking, finance transformation, process improvement, compliance, or operational efficiency.

• Contribute to initiatives aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of payment and cash-management processes.

What you need to have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy or equivalent

• Minimum 7 years of experience preferably in Accounts Payable transactions.

• Those working in a Shared Service environment are encouraged to apply.

• Good command of English in both spoken and written

• Relevant experience in payment operations, finance operations, treasury operations, cash management, accounts payable, banking operations, or a related finance environment.

• Strong hands-on experience in payment processing and/or payment authorization.

• Experience using e-banking or banking platforms.

• Good understanding of financial controls, compliance, audit requirements, and payment-related risks.

• Demonstrated involvement in projects, system enhancements, implementations, process improvements, automation, UAT, migration, or transformation initiatives.

• Experience coordinating with multiple internal and external stakeholders.

What makes you stands out:

• Proficiency in Mandarin or Cantonese is an added advantage for supporting specific regions

• Experience in a multinational organization, shared-services environment, global business services, financial institution, or regional finance operation.

• Exposure to ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, or similar platforms.

• Experience in payment-system implementation, process automation, finance transformation, banking migration, UAT, or process optimization.

• Experience supporting internal or external audits.

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.

• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.

• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.