Monroe Consulting Group, an Executive Recruitment firm, is partnering with an organisation in the Professional Services industry to hire a Head of Finance. This opportunity is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Position Overview
This role is to lead and oversee the full finance function, ensuring robust financial governance, reporting, and operational efficiency. They are responsible to act as a strategic partner to senior leadership, driving portfolio performance and informed capital allocation decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic finance: partner with the Director and GMs on portfolio performance and capital decisions; build property-level P&L and NOI reporting that lets GMs own their results; maintain group cash flow forecasting.
- Treasury & debt: oversee the group's debt facilities - servicing, covenants, refinancing, and restructuring - and progressively take ownership of banking relationships; support the Director on asset disposals and special projects.
- Receivables (AR): oversee rental income, tenant billing, service-charge recovery, and collections across commercial and residential tenants; ensure sound lease accounting under MFRS.
- Payables (AP): oversee the payables cycle, three-way matching, approval workflow, and payment runs; drive cost discipline and strengthen vendor and payment controls.
- Team & systems: lead, mentor, and develop the finance team; drive the Yardi systems implementation; shift the team from data entry towards analysis and control.
- Controllership & compliance: own monthly management accounts and variance analysis; manage audit, corporate tax, and SST; ensure MFRS compliance and e-Invoice / MyInvois readiness; establish a budgeting and forecasting process (not currently in place).
Key Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
- MIA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent chartered qualification.
- 8-12 years in finance with at least 3 in a leadership role.
- Background in property investment, REIT, property / asset management, retail or mall operations, or hospitality strongly preferred.
- Property-development or construction experience is not the focus.
Technical / Functional Expertise
- Strong MFRS including investment-property accounting; treasury and debt exposure; management reporting.
- Yardi Voyager experience strongly preferred.
Soft Skills & Leadership Competencies
- Proven team leadership.
- The judgement and integrity to navigate family-business dynamics.
- Professional English and Bahasa Malaysia (Mandarin an advantage).
