Accountant (Accounts Payable)
The impact you’ll make
At Lam, as an Accountant, you're central to managing and enhancing our accounting systems. This is a fixed-term (12-month) contract position. With a keen eye for detail, you interpret financial reporting requirements, balance the books, and ensure accuracy of profit and loss, cash flow, income, and balance sheet statements. Your expertise extends to monthly report generation, supporting informed decision making. You contribute to Lam's financial accuracy and compliance.
What you’ll do
- Ensure timely payment for suppliers based on the payment calendar and that payment is released within specified timelines.
- Oversee service provider, review the transactions performed by them and ensure all invoices are accurately coded for accounting purpose and adequately approved per Company policies and Approval Matrix
- Work professionally and timely with supply chain and relevant stakeholders to resolve any invoice and GR/IR discrepancies. Ensure all queries/rejections are taken into action well before the payment run dates.
- Ensure adequate funds is reserved for payment.
- Month end closing, account reconciliations and preparation of financial reports for management, identifying variances or anomalies.
- Process employee expense reports in accordance with Company policies and regulations. Review and respond to travel expense payment queries.
- Monitoring accurate and timely e-invoicing submission and synchronization with service provider platforms. Reconcile and resolve exceptions where applicable.
- Verify and ensure completeness of new vendor registration documents and set up.
- Identify repetitive issues or risks, drive process improvement and support the execution of projects.
- Support internal and external audit activities.
- Ensure compliance with accounting GAAPs, policies, and SOX controls.
- To perform other ad hoc assignments as required including payroll and fixed assets related matters.
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field, and/or professional accounting qualification (ACCA/CPA/MIA etc).
- Experience in Accounts Payable end to end process will be advantageous.
- Hardworking, meticulous, and detail oriented.
- Ability to deal with a high-volume work in a transaction orientated environment.
- Multitasking, problem-solving skills, team player with ability to work effectively across various departments.
- Ability to analyze and resolve discrepancies in a timely and efficient manner.
- Good knowledge in Microsoft Office.
- Proficiency with SAP will be a bonus.
- External audit experience with Big 4 accounting firm is an advantage.
- Self-starter, highly independently.
- Good command of English with an excellent communication skill and able to communicate in mandarin.
Our commitment
We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.
Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.