Specialist Financial Accounting & Entity Simplification | Kuala Lumpur *
Malaysia
About BHP
At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.
Come and be a part of this success.
About the Role
We seek a highly motivated individual to join our dynamic team and the individual will work collaboratively with the team and key stakeholders to provide support, guidance and produce results, including (but not limited to) the following deliverables:
Core Accountabilities
- Ensure adherence to BHP Charter Values and compliance to Global Standards.
- Demonstrate overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility, and sustainable development.
- Assist in preparation of regular reporting to key stakeholders.
- Coordinate due diligence on each entity to ensure there are no adverse implications of liquidating the entity. This involves liaising with Finance, Tax, Legal, Compliance, HR, PS&D and Treasury to ensure the due diligence is completed in a timely manner and approval for liquidation is granted.
- Post due diligence, conduct remediation to remove impediments/blockers to liquidation. This may include transfer/sale of assets, termination of contracts, employee termination/transfer, payment of liabilities, resolution of tax and legal matters.
- Work with Supply and Legal Compliance to engage new vendors or extend contracts with existing vendors in each country, raise POs and approve payments.
- Pursuant to Global Standards, prepare a memo seeking necessary approvals/endorsements to liquidate each entity. The memo will outline background, financials, structure, due diligence process, consultations, next steps and recommendation.
- Understand and manage the liquidation process across the different jurisdictions.
- Monitor progress on multiple entities and report on current status, update ERP Power BI board.
- Manage divestment of entities after liquidation. Involves tracking the progress of liquidations to ensure timing of divestment is optimal, supporting businesses in data cleansing (requires systems knowledge), management/coordination of Consolidations Journal Entries, preparation of Global Change Requests.
- Assist with and participate in other finance and governance activities across the GFF team, when required.
About You
To be successful in securing this role, ideally you will have the following skills and experience:
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- Professionally qualified (CPA/ACCA/CIMA/CA), or currently pursuing a professional qualification will be an added advantage
Experience and Technical Competencies:
- Experience working with a large corporate or Global Business Services function
- Demonstrate strong business acumen, risk management skills, attention to detail, self-starter and the ability to manage deadlines effectively
- Problem solving – anticipate, identify and resolve complex problems with practical solutions
- Superior communication, facilitation, influencing and interpersonal skills are essential to building constructive relationships and credibility with diverse stakeholders and cross functional teams
- Exposure to compliance / governance activities
- Sound knowledge of general accounting principles, policies and practices
- High proficiency in MS Office suite
- Experience in SAP finance modules and related systems
Languages:
- Fluent in English, both verbal and written
About Our Process
At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.
If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.
At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.
BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.