Senior Accountant - Hach Malaysia

About Us

Veralto

Veralto launched in October 2023 as a $5 billion global leader in essential technologies with a bold vision for creating enduring positive impact for the world. Our operating companies are building on a long-standing legacy of success, innovation, and deep customer trust as they work to create a safer, cleaner, more vibrant future. Veralto is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with 13 operating companies and 300+locations worldwide. Our global team of 16,000 associates is committed to making an enduring positive impact on the world united by powerful purpose. Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™

Veralto’s Water Quality Companies’s – Hach, Chemtreat, Trojan Technologies, OTT Hydromet, Sea-Bird Scientific, McCrometer, XOS & Aquatic Informatics- helps to manage, treat, purity & protect the global water supply from municipal & wastewater treatment facilities to lakes, rivers, watersheds and oceans

Our Product Identification companies – Videojet, Esko, X-rite, Linx and Pantoe helps package and protect the world’s food, medicine and essentials tracing and authenticating billions of goods that travels the global supply chain every day. 

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WATER QUALITY PLATFORM

Water Quality (‘WQ”) Platform is part of the Environmental & Applied Solutions reporting segment and is a global leader in water quality analysis and treatment, providing instrumentation and disinfection systems to help analyze and manage the quality of ultra-pure water, portable water, wastewater, groundwater and ocean water in residential, commercial, industrial, and natural resource applications. Our water quality business provides products under a variety of brands, including Hach, Trojan Technologies, McCrometer and ChemTreat.  WQ Asia has sales offices in India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Philippines.

About Role

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The Senior Accountant is responsible for maintaining accurate financial records and ensuring compliance with US GAAP and Malaysian statutory requirements. The role supports financial close, reporting, tax compliance, and audit processes, while ensuring strong internal controls and process integrity across the organization.

What You'll Be Doing (Job Responsibilities)

1. Financial Close & Reporting

• Manage general ledger accounting and reconciliation
• Month end closing entries like provisions, prepayments, allocation and cross charge accounting.
• Ensure timely closing of books for the month, quarter and year, by finalizing the Trial balance after thorough verification.
• Prepare, review, and validate balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all reconciling items are properly supported    and commented for any unreconciled variances.
• Ensure completeness, accuracy, and integrity of financial data prior to reporting submission
• Prepare financial statements in compliance with US GAAP
• Support group reporting packages, including consolidation and intercompany eliminations
• Perform cost analysis with historical trends and variability to revenue and provide comments in monthly reporting.
• Ensure proper cut-off, revenue and expense recognition, and adherence to accounting standards
• Maintain strong documentation and audit trail for all financial reporting processes
• Support implementation of new accounting policies or changes in US GAAP requirements
• Costing & Margin Analysis

• Ensure audit readiness at all times, including:
  • Maintaining well-organized support schedules and reconciliations
  • Ensuring all balance sheets are fully substantiated
  • Preparing audit-ready documentation and lead schedules ahead of audit cycles
  • Proactively identifying and resolving potential audit issues

2. Compliance, Tax & Audit

• Ensure compliance with MFRS and Malaysian statutory requirements
• Support tax filings (SST, corporate tax) and liaise with tax agents
• Coordinate internal and external audits, including audit schedules and resolution of findings
• Maintain strong internal controls and ensure adherence to company policies (including SOX)

3. Operational Support & Process Improvement

• Manage intercompany transactions and reconciliations across entities
• Support regulatory and management reporting, budgeting, and ad-hoc analysis
• Maintain effective internal control environment and ensure compliance with corporate policies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (AP, AR, FP&A, Treasury)
• Drive process improvements, system enhancements (e.g., Oracle), and efficiency initiatives
• Provide timely and accurate financial information to support decision-making.
• Act as a key contact point for finance-related queries within the organization

What We Are Looking For (Skills & Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 5-6 years of experience in GL accounting and financial reporting
• Professional certification (ACCA, CPA, ICAEW) is an advantage
• Experience working in an MNC and exposure to US GAAP is a must
• Experience in Malaysia statutory reporting and tax environment is essential
• Exposure to SOX/internal controls framework
• Experience with ERP systems (preferably Oracle, SAGE, AccPac or similar)
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Experience of OneStream/Hyperion, Blackline will be preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to work under tight deadlines

What’s in it for you:

• You will play an integral part in shaping the Opco’s business in
• Malaysia, one of strongest and highly visible region with many untapped opportunities.
• You will work with a team where the goal is to create an environment of continuous improvement, wellness, and open, honest, two-way communication.

​Diversity & Inclusion:

At Veralto, we are dedicated to building and sustaining a truly diverse and inclusive culture. These are not just words on a page—Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority for the company, and it ties deeply to each of our core values. Veralto and all Veralto Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law.

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve.  Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.
 

Unsolicited Assistance

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at any of the Veralto companies, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Veralto and its companies. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Veralto and its companies because of the unsolicited referral.