Treasury (Associate Analyst) - Mandarin Speaker

Do you want to work with passionate teams, providing excellent business and digital services to the Asia Pacific region?

Do you want an open, supportive, and caring working environment?

Do you view your development needs seriously as we do?

If YES, then take your career to the #NextLevel with BASF !

Objectives of the Position

• Responsible for daily operation activities
• Reviewer & approver for daily and month-end tasks
• Support in internal, regional, and global projects
• Support on team’s operational processes and procedures in full compliance with BASF requirements, Financial Reporting Compliance (FRC), local legal and statutory requirements
• Support in issue resolutions and act as advisory of own service delivery topic together with local business partners, global counterparts, internal and external stakeholders
• Support Assistant Manager/Manager in day-to-day service delivery

Main Tasks

Functional Tasks (including but not limited to):

• Responsible for projects, transition, process improvement for own cluster/ portfolio
• Ensure service delivery meet targets defined in service level agreement and KPIs for process efficiency, effectiveness, and quality control
• Responsible as reviewer & approver for service delivery activities.
• Provide technical, process and systems support to the team by monitoring the processes, and ensuring quality in terms of accuracy, completeness, and timeliness daily
• Support to coordinate, monitor and compile Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to improve productivity within own team and conduct relevant benchmarking exercise accordingly
• Work closely with Analyst, Assistant Manager and Manager in daily operations to achieve defined objectives and targets

Project Management:

• Support in steering Internal, Regional and Global processes implementation in Asia Pacific Region
• Support Asia Pacific’s business requirement / variation from Global / Regional process, preparation of business case and escalate when necessary
• Develop working relationships with the local companies and project owners to ensure that project solutions are adopted, implemented, and maintained appropriately
• Assist to communicate project deliverables to ensure all stakeholders are kept informed on progress and issues/resolutions

Compliance:

• Participate in any compliance audits and respond to audit queries (for both internal and external)
• Ensure all work documentation and work processes are updated and met with BASF policies & guideline, local company’s policy, legal and statutory requirements

Quality and Continuous Improvement:

• Identify, recommend, and implement continuous improvement opportunities in quality and efficiency to support smooth implementation
• Prepare and review training materials and conduct end user trainings when required
• Support new and existing team members through proper knowledge transfer; and sharing of best practice thereby ensuring quality is maintained through any staff transition
• Support standardization across regions and globally by focusing on alignment of end-to-end business process areas, system and tools for optimization of resource planning.

Others:

• Support Business Continuity Plan (BCP) through resource planning, backup and communication
• Any other tasks due to Service Hub KL management strategy and/ or changing business environment may require to be performed

Additionally, for Senior Associate Analyst:

• For development purposes, any additional task can be assigned as aligned

Requirements

Education

• Professional qualification in Finance /Accounting (e.g., ACCA, CPA, etc.) or Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Finance/ Accounting or related disciplines

Working Experience     

• More than 3 years’ experience in Finance and Accounting
• Diploma in Finance or Accounting with 4-5 years workings experience in related fields
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate to service recipients
• Excellent time management, good organization skills and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and to excel under pressure for meeting any tight deadlines
• Self-motivated, hardworking, and with management skills
• Curiosity to learn, adaptability to changes and agile and ability to challenge status quo

Technical & Professional Knowledge

• Knowledge of MS Office Applications, especially MS Word, Excel, and Power Point
• Knowledge of SAP Systems
• Proficiency in English and other languages required
• Proficient knowledge and understanding on related processes
• Knowledge in programing or scripting are an added advantage but not mandatory

BASF Asia-Pacific Service Centre was established in 2005. Located in Kuala Lumpur, the regional service hub has about 1,200 employees and growing. Focused on being a competency and digitalization driven hub, it also provides quality functional and know-how services in the areas of finance, controlling, human resources, real estate and facilities management, communications, environmental, health and safety, procurement, import-export order management, and information services to BASF companies and affiliates in the Asia Pacific region. BASF also has two other regional hubs located in Berlin, Germany, and Montevideo, Uruguay that cover the Europe and Americas regions.

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 112,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €68.9 billion in 2023. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S. Further information at www.basf.com.