Accounting & finance recruitment, screened for compliance

We recruit permanent, white-collar finance staff for Malaysian employers — the people who keep the ledger clean, close the month, and keep the company on the right side of the tax authorities. Our coverage runs the full ladder, from an account assistant on a diploma to a finance manager with a professional qualification running full-set accounts for HQ and branches. This is a sector page under our wider recruitment practice; for the candidate's view, current openings sit on our live jobs board.

Like every Carriera search, the work is manually screened — quality over volume. You deal directly with the consultant running the mandate, not an account manager passing your role down a queue. If you are weighing the cost of engaging an agency, our companion guide on recruitment agency fees in Malaysia explains how placement fees typically work.

We place across the executive-to-manager range. The table below is grounded in real mandates currently open through Carriera — concrete titles, Klang Valley locations and monthly salary bands — alongside the standard finance functions we recruit for. Bands are the employer's monthly basic salary, not a fee schedule, and shift with experience and qualification.

Beyond these live roles, the standard finance functions we recruit for include: account assistants and accounts clerks; accounts payable / accounts receivable and credit-control executives; general-ledger and management accountants; finance and accounts executives; audit and tax associates moving in-house from practice; and finance managers leading budgeting, cash-flow forecasting, variance analysis and statutory closing. Many of these mandates ask for full-set accounts and exposure to ERP systems — the kind of detail our manual CV screening is built to verify.

Finance is the one function where regulatory error has a price tag. So our screening goes past "can they do a full set" and asks whether a candidate genuinely understands the Malaysian compliance environment they will be working in:

• LHDN / tax. Corporate and personal tax basics, withholding, deductibility, and audit readiness — the Inland Revenue Board (hasil.gov.my) sets the rules that a finance hire has to work within day to day. For the principles behind what a business can and cannot deduct, see our note on deductible business expenses under the ITA 1967.
• SST. Whether the candidate can handle Sales & Service Tax treatment, returns and the recent rate and scope changes without supervision.
• e-Invoice. Malaysia's e-Invoicing regime is being rolled out in phases by LHDN (hasil.gov.my/e-invoice); a finance hire who already understands the MyInvois workflow and validation fields saves you a painful onboarding. Our e-Invoice employer guide covers what this means for your team.
• Statutory payroll. EPF, SOCSO, EIS and PCB — the contributions a finance or payroll-adjacent hire must compute correctly every month.

This is the same compliance focus that runs through our whole recruitment approach — literacy in the Employment Act, LHDN and SST — applied to the function where it matters most.

Screening tells you where a candidate stands; training closes whatever gap remains. Carriera runs a second practice — Carriera Academy Sdn Bhd, an HRD Corp Approved Training Provider — and its catalogue is strongest exactly where finance teams feel exposed: SST, the Income Tax Act 1967, e-Invoice, LHDN audits, capital statements, financial analysis and budgeting.

Because these are HRD Corp claimable programmes under the SBL-Khas scheme, a registered employer can fund them from its existing HRD levy account rather than fresh budget. So you can hire a strong-but-not-perfect accounts executive and bring them up to speed on, say, e-Invoice — without it costing your P&L. See our corporate training page for how the claimable side works.

Finance pay rises steeply with responsibility and qualification. As a rough frame from current Carriera mandates: junior finance and accounts executives sit in the low-to-mid thousands a month; an experienced accounts executive handling a full set commands more; and a finance manager running consolidated closing for HQ and branches moves well into five figures. A professional qualification (ACCA, CIMA or CPA) typically lifts the band further.

Rather than publish one number that fits no one, we benchmark each search against the live market and official wage data. The Department of Statistics Malaysia publishes Salaries & Wages statistics by occupation and state that anchor a sensible band (dosm.gov.my). Tell us the role and the seniority and we will frame a realistic Klang Valley band for you.

Hiring for finance? Message us on WhatsApp or email recruitment@carriera.com.my, or start on our contact page. You can browse current openings, see the other industries we serve, or clarify a term in our recruitment glossary.