Senior Accountant - Payment Operations & Projects

About the role

Marsh is looking for a Senior Accountant for its Regional Accounting team in Kuala Lumpur, working in a hybrid arrangement of at least three days a week in the office. The role ensures accurate, timely and compliant payment authorization while supporting payment-related projects, process improvements, system enhancements and control initiatives. It is an individual contributor position, so people-management experience is not required.

Key responsibilities

• Review and validate payment requests for completeness, accuracy and supporting documentation, and check compliance with policies, delegated authority and internal controls.
• Review and authorize payments through e-banking platforms, ensuring segregation of duties and timely processing.
• Perform sanctions screening and payee verification, and escalate compliance or control issues.
• Take part in payment-process, banking-platform, automation and system-implementations projects, keeping track of timelines, issues and deliverables.
• Manage stakeholders across Finance, Treasury, Accounts Payable, business teams, banks, vendors and auditors, and give guidance on payment processes and controls.
• Identify process-improvement opportunities, recommend changes and help design, test and document new processes.
• Prepare weekly operational and project status reports and track outstanding items.
• Support internal and external audits, quarterly control testing and ad-hoc projects.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accountancy or equivalent.
• At least 7 years of experience, preferably in Accounts Payable transactions; shared-service experience is encouraged.
• Good command of spoken and written English.
• Strong hands-on experience in payment processing and/or authorization, and with e-banking platforms.
• Project coordination, stakeholder management and independent follow-up of deliverables.

Required skills

• Payment operations, finance operations, treasury, cash management, accounts payable or banking operations.
• Understanding of financial controls, compliance, audit requirements and payment risks.
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle or Workday is an advantage.
• Mandarin or Cantonese is an added advantage.