Accountant

Panthera operates in Malaysia through its own subsidiary Panthera Wild Cat Conservation Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (Panthera Malaysia), incorporated in 2020. Panthera Malaysia is part of Panthera’s Middle East & Asia Hub, located in Abu Dhabi. The Hub implements regional administrative oversight ensuring compliance with Panthera policies and local legislation.

Panthera Malaysia operations are funded by Malaysian and international corporate, government and semi/ non-government parties. At this moment, the funding to local activities is channeled through Panthera Headquarter in New York, USA. Once the financial systems of the new entity are established, the Malaysian entity will receive directly and manage donations.

Position Summary

The Accountant will help coordinate, administer, and support activities that are critical to the functioning of the Panthera Malaysia team. They will interact closely with the Country Director, the Regional Finance Lead of the Middle East & Asia Hub in Abu Dhabi, and the global financial team in New York, working closely with them to oversee the accounting, annual budgeting and planning, donor financial analysis and reporting, and ensuring compliance

The ideal candidate must be legally authorized to work in Malaysia.

Principal Responsibilities & Duties

1. Accounting

• Ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements;
• Manage entity audit and tax; support global organization audit and tax;
• Prepare timely and accurate statutory reports
• Oversee all accounts and ledgers, process and approve transactions;
• Monthly close, reconciliations, and production of organization financial statements;
• Manage banking relationships;
• Monitor cash flow and oversee subsidiary advance requirements;
• Manage inventory, expense reports, leases, assets;
• Manage donor specific audits;
• Process/approve payments, including payroll
  
  

2. Financial Planning and Analysis

• Manage annual budgeting and planning;
• Administer monthly budget forecast updates;

3. Payroll

• Set up and maintain the software system for joiners/ leavers
• End-to-end payroll processing.
• Enter new employee data into payroll system.
• Monthly submission of statutory payments.
• Issue pays lips monthly and on ad-hoc basis.
• Maintain regular information about sick, annual leave and other leave by employee
• Ensure proper calculation and timely input of social security payments
• Calculate and input any benefits and provisions timely and accurately.
• Any other payroll related matter.

4. Company Bank Account & Cash Book reconciliation

• Assistance setting up bank account (including online banking), secondary access to the bank account to assist with payments when needed
• Company bank account statement documentation.
• Reconcile bank and cash statements on a monthly basis.
• Provide transfer advice to payment requestee upon successful transaction via relevant platform.

5. Project/ Grant Accounts Management and Reporting

• Input and oversee the entity ledger/ accounting record across all Panthera systems, included but not limited to Chrome River, NetSuite, Planful, and Teams, as the case requires.
• Prepare monthly forecasts of revenue and expenditure.
• Provide monthly expenditure reports for the various contracts and projects, as it may be required for donor or other reporting
• Prepare and provide annual financial reports of actual revenue and expenditure.

6. Expenses & Reimbursement

·Reconcile individual staff accounts.

·Manage payment receipt documentation.

·Process expenses for all field staff in Panthera administrative and financial systems.

·Reimburse staff from corporate bank account via relevant banking software

7. Contract Financial Management

·Manage donor award “grant accounting” to submit budgets vs actuals reports to contacts leads; donor financial reporting, donor award financial information management in finance systems;

·Ensure compliance of sub-contracting with Panthera’s sub-recipient monitoring policy;

·Ensure security screening and due diligence of potential contractors, sub-recipients or sub-contractors;

·Ensure recordkeeping of contractors, sub-contractors and sub-recipient files such as financial reports and agreement documents

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field
• Minimum of 3 years’ related work experience
• Ability to multi-task in an open setting while juggling competing demands and maintaining pleasant demeanor
• Ability to work cross-culturally
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, lookup formulas, etc.)
• Record-keeping and organizing and coordinating skills
• Ability to document, interpret, and implement policies and procedures
• Identify areas for process improvement

Preferred

• Not-for-profit accounting experience
• CPA or CPA candidate
• Experience with Oracle NetSuite accounting software
• Spanish and/or French language proficiency
• Interest in biodiversity

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