Accountant

This is a remote position.

The Accountant shall assist the Company with executing the Business, inclusive of, but not limited to, planning and executing accounting and book keeping activities and handling the Company’s internal administrative works related to Finance.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES

• Maintains a subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, and posting transactions. • Balances subsidiary accounts by reconciling entries.
• Maintains general ledger by transferring subsidiary account summaries. • Balances general ledger by preparing a trial balance; reconciling entries. • Develops a system to account for financial transactions by establishing a chart of accounts; defining bookkeeping policies and procedures.
• Maintains historical records by filing documents.
• Prepares financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends.
• Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying requirements; enforcing adherence to requirements; filing reports; advising management on needed actions.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. • Ensures the LCP dropbox or storage drive is up-to-date and complete.
• Eventually, conduct audits and submission of audit reports and finalization of financial statements (future task)
• Collects bills and supporting documents from the team members and to prepare reimbursement statements to be submitted to the various clients
• Collect bills and PRs (expense statements) from team members
• Verifies bills and statements; forward for approval and payments
• Accounts for / encodes all entries to Tally/Accounting software
• Prepares clients’ invoices regularly (i.e. monthly) or during events
• Follows up on payments
• Prepares outstanding statements of clients’, and team members
• Prepares other statements that Founder CEO and other Managers ask as needed • Prepares travel budgets for various trips of the team members
• Compares sales and marketing budgets of clients with the actuals
• Acts as liaison with HSBC/Bank on matters related to loans and insurance • Perform other duties as the Founder CEO/Manager may require

COMPETENCIES

• Organized and methodical
• Good problem solver
• Good people skills
• Attention to detail
• Honest and reliable
• Highly competent in the use of Excel and other database programs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and prioritize
• Possesses an understanding of the luxury goods and services industry • Interested to work in a fast paced, highly intellectually challenging environment • Works very hard and is highly flexible as befitting to joining a dynamic start-up • Effective communication skills, especially keen in listening to co-workers and clients • Instills trust in others
• Service oriented and process oriented

QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate of college education, preferably with a degree in (or closely related to) Commerce, Accountancy and Cost Management, Financial Management or Business Administration
• Must be English speaking
• Must also be willing to work to suit the demanding clientele, including week-ends and outside of normal work hours
• Preferably with experience in Hospitality industry
• Adept/ has expertise with financial software applications