Senior Manager, Financial Accounting KUL

Join us in this role where you’ll be responsible for the global service delivery of financial accounting products to the Ørsted business. You’ll lead a team structured in regional responsibility teams primarily based in Kuala Lumpur.

Welcome to the Ørsted Business Services APAC team
You’ll be part of the Financial Accounting function where you, together with your colleagues, will provide financial reporting products for both group and local purposes. We are part of the Ørsted Business Services which delivers a range of high-quality services to the Ørsted business through scalable, standardised, automated, and global processes. As a team, we foster an inclusive and supportive environment that motivates and drives our team members, empowering them in daily decision-making and providing challenges and guidance for their continual development.

You’ll play an important role in:

• Serving as the key contact point for internal customers (regional/country finance teams) especially your main counterparts within the Financial Accounting and Ørsted Business Services organisation, ensuring service excellence and managing expectations
• Recruiting, mentoring, and retaining a team of skilled financial accountants.
• Fostering a continuous improvement and high-performance culture within the Hub.
• Ensuring all delivered services adhere to corporate policies, local regulatory requirements, and international accounting standards (e.g., IFRS, GAAP).
• Supporting standardization and automation of financial accounting processes across all supported entities.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have considerable experience in the leadership of an accounting, reporting or controlling department, both in leading others and leading leaders, in the context of a multinational company
• have a technical accounting, controlling or audit background with practical experience of working local financial statements and in/with audit and managing the end-to-end audit cycle
• demonstrate resource planning, setting performance expectations and creating and optimising relevant KPIs to ensure a high quality of services and timely product delivery to the business and ultimately value creation
• have great experience and confidence in stakeholder management, understanding the short/mid/long-term needs of both internal and external stakeholders and translate these into tangible actions and results
• are an experienced communicator and presenter, speaking and writing English fluently.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [email protected].

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

About the job
Application deadline:
31 December 2025

Location:
Kuala Lumpur, MY

Field of work:
Finance and controlling

Employment type:
Permanent

Work hours:
40

Workplace:
Hybrid (office and home-working)

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted
- We develop, construct, and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar energy farms, storage facilities, and bioenergy plants in Europe, Asia, and North America.

- Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

- We’ve been ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies for the past six years.

- We’re headquartered in Denmark.

- We have over 8,600 employees, working in 15 countries and growing.

An inclusive team
Ørsted wants all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, regardless of age, nationality, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs. We’re committed to secure an inclusive work environment characterised by a respect for all people so everyone feels free to openly share their input and ideas.