Catherine Marcus

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead financial accounting and corporate reporting functions to ensure compliance with statutory and internal requirements.
• Ensure operational excellence across financial functions, enhancing effectiveness and efficiency of monthly closings, reporting, and analysis.
• Drive change and process improvements in the finance function, fostering continuous enhancement of systems, controls, and competencies.
• Support internal transformation projects, ERP implementation, and strategic financial planning for the company.

ACCOUNTING

• Coordinate all month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting in compliance with statutory and audit requirements.
• Ensure all ERP transactions are accurately recorded and mapped correctly in the Chart of Accounts.
• Maintain and reconcile the general ledger, including manual journal entries, accruals, and prepayments for accurate matching of revenues and expenses.
• Perform inventory valuation (Raw Materials, WIP, and Finished Goods) and ensure the monthly update of the Cost Roll-up File.
• Perform Gross Profit and Variance Analysis using the Costing System.
• Maintain and update the fixed asset register and depreciation schedule; execute monthly depreciation run.
• Reconcile all balance sheet accounts to their respective source documents and investigate discrepancies or unusual balances.

FINANCIAL REPORTING

• Generate and review final reports, including monthly Balance Sheet and Income Statement, with detailed financial and variance analysis.
• Prepare and analyse weekly Cash Flow and Payables/Receivables reports for management meetings.
• Coordinate and finalize year-end financial reporting in collaboration with external auditors.
• Provide ad hoc reporting and financial analysis as requested by top management.
• Participate actively in weekly finance meetings and strategic discussions with management.

TAX AND LEGAL MATTERS

• Liaise with tax agents and local authorities to ensure compliance with all government and statutory tax requirements (including SST, PCB, EPF, SOCSO, EIS).
• Coordinate with external consultants regarding tax computations, audit requirements, and legal documentation.
• Ensure accurate and timely submission of monthly payroll statutory deductions and related documentation.

AUDIT AND OTHER STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS

• Manage and coordinate with external auditors on annual audit processes, including providing supporting documentation and clarifications.
• Ensure proper internal control practices are in place and followed, and resolve audit queries efficiently.
• Monitor compliance with internal controls and company policies, including risk assessments and fraud detection.

FIXED ASSET MANAGEMENT

• Maintain and monitor the fixed asset register and monthly depreciation.
• Ensure accurate classification, tagging, and tracking of assets.
• Reconcile fixed assets ledger with GL and physical count records.

PROJECTS, IMPROVEMENTS, AND INITIATIVES

• Oversee the maintenance and enhancement of the company’s costing system within the ERP (iLink).
• Drive improvements in financial and operational workflows through dashboard creation, reporting templates, and automation tools.
• Manage and update the company’s quoting system, ensuring costing rates are up to date for accurate pricing.
• Actively participate in management initiatives to enhance productivity, cost control, and long-term financial planning.

• Provide Cash Management transaction processing support to deliver Cash Management services to Business Groups in accordance with established Cash Management processes and work procedures.
• To perform Cash Management day-to-day and bank statement transaction processing and ensuring delivery quality in terms of accuracy, completeness and timeliness on a daily basis.
• Perform reviewer and approval role for payment, cash management and treasury related deliverables adhering to all implemented policies and procedures.
• Initiate payments, cash management and remittance by adhering to all implemented policies and procedures.
• Manage end to end process of client bank account opening and closing, change of account signatories, I-banking users, bank KYC reviews, payment/cashbook reconciliation, transaction monitoring and other bank related tasks.
• Work closely with donor country internal stakeholder and bank relationship manager.
• Manage day to day operations, training to the junior officers and provide support to the direct line manager for all operations related to payment and treasury work to meet the SLA.
• Manage client relationship by attending to client queries in a professional and timely manner.
• Deliver client account monitoring/reconciliation updates in accurate and timely manner.
• Work closely with banks to ensure all client instructions are executed in a timely manner.
• Participate in projects as of when required.
• Provide support to facilitate the on-time completion of internal and external audits.
• Actively participated in process improvement and standardization initiatives.

• Performed daily cash management tasks including bank statement uploads and imports into Oracle (EBS) and managed reconciliation via the Bank Statement Interface and Corona system.
• Investigated and resolved errors in bank statement interfaces in collaboration with GFMS and CIP teams.
• Matched daily transactions to the general ledger (GL) both manually and through Oracle; liaised with internal teams to raise and clear ADI/AR entries.
• Conducted comprehensive Nostro reconciliation for FIT, FOT, demand drafts, ATM withdrawals, treasury and trade finance transactions.
• Monitored unreconciled items and escalated issues related to OSPOS, FOBC cheques, draft cancellations, and treasury contracts.
• Raised GL entries for Nostro charges and income, ensuring timely communication to respective branches.
• Reconciled CLICKS monthly transactions and handled GL mismatches due to incorrect agent codes.
• Participated in system enhancement projects and training to improve reconciliation processes.
• Supported team operations, ensured timely submission of reconciliations, and covered coworkers’ duties during absences.

• Preparing legal documents and billings to solicitors and borrowers based on their legal procedures for various types of legal fees of property loans. This includes for foreclosure and civil procedures.
• Assisting in collection payments from borrowers in collection center in order to minimize loss of payments and non-performing loans.
• As a negotiator, actively engaged in calling up customers to ensure prompts payments and recovery process.
• Records customers detail and necessary information in the system. This includes loan documentation and disbursement, cheque clearing, payment processing, account servicing, management of self-service terminals and trade operations. These roles focusing on delivering measurable quality output in the most cost efficient and effective manner.