Finance Associate

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

If you are interested to pursue a career as Finance Associate within Finance team at Haleon Business Services (HBS) Capability Centre in Malaysia, please submit your professional profile through our career page.As Finance Associate, you are expected to register with ICAEW and complete the three (3)-year training and practical work experience with Haleon.

At Haleon, our modern and technology-led Regional Finance Capability Centre – APAC team, we work together with colleagues from across Finance to support our businesses across APAC in delivering the best outcome for our patients and consumers. Our HBS Capability Centre in Malaysia will be part of a global network of Regional Finance hubs to share best practices and knowledge whilst working closely with our Regional Finance teams.

You will be responsible to support the Close & Control or Planning &Forecasting team which includes the preparation, review and submission of in-market annual, quarterly and monthly financial statements. Also, you will be responsible to provide Value added Analytics on Actual and forecasted Business Performance in the areas of P&L, BS and Cash flow. Deep understanding and execute the Haleon Internal Control Framework.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in monthly financial cycle such as support the Finance Lead in the preparation monthly actual / forecast deliverables in accordance with Haleon Corporate requirement.

• Collaborate with stakeholders (Finance Business Partner, Sales and Marketing team) and other functions (e.g., P2P, O2C, Stat & Tax) to ensure successful month-end close.

• Attend finance review meeting on monthly basis to provide value added support and bridge the business gap.

• Responsible for supporting the preparation of the monthly OPEX, A&P, Sundry, headcount and controls. Review and processing journals as per Haleon Finance Manuel requirement.

• Support the Finance lead in any ad-hocs query for actual / forecast and manage stakeholder request.

• Understand and practise the Haleon Internal Control System as per ICFW requirement.

• Support process improvement projects

• Understanding and navigate the ERP system such as SAP, BOARD, BISON, Business Analytics tools and

Your Journey with Haleon as Finance Associate expectation will be as following:

Year 1 - Building your business acumen and foundation into Haleon finance cycle/system.

Year 2 - Bring value added to the Haleon Business Service and market performance.

Year 3 – Exploring into Financial Controlling, Plannings & Forecasting or Business Partnering role.

Requirements:

We look for people who appreciate the importance of safety and quality and strive to continuously improve our performance and practices.  We work in an open and transparent environment so you’ll be someone who treats others with respect and integrity – as you will be treated yourself. 

Ideally, we are looking for someone with:

• Minimum completion of ICAEW “Certificate” level.

• You must be a registered student of ICAEW.

• Excellent customer service skills

• Positive working attitude and willing to take challenge

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Self-motivated and displays initiative in solving problems

• Actively seeks to improve processes making them more effective and efficient

• Must be fluent in English – both written and spoken

• Mandarin Literacy for candidates who support Greater China market.

• Attention to detail, good analytical and problem-solving capabilities

• Ability to plan and manage workload to ensure all key deadlines are met.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

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