Accountant

Key Responsibilities

• Process, review and validate various transactions entered in our system ensuring high accuracy of all entries, and compliance to established controls, accounting principles and policies.
• In coordination with supervisors and colleagues, investigate and resolve transactional issues as necessary.
• Prepare journal entries for adjustments or corrections.
• Prepare and analyse reconciliations of selected complex accounts and advise the Sr Accountant/Team Lead of issues on the reconciliation
• Review basic reconciliations performed by junior staff.
• Create and amend vendor accounts.
• Assist with audits by providing supporting records and documentation
• Performs preliminary checks and enters data for payment runs
• Reviews data entered by junior staffs in Payment Runs.
• Communicate with the stakeholders on matters concerning invoices, and/or expense claims in a timely manner.
• Check validity and completeness of supporting documents presented by the stakeholders.
• Suggest and drive process improvement initiatives and best practices.

Key Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field.
• Relevant professional certifications is an advantage (e.g. CPA, MBA …etc.)
• Relevant experience in a Finance Shared Services or BPO is preferred.
• Experience in any of the following Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an advantage:
  • SAP MM/FI Module (2 to 4 years if assigned to SJ)
• 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience in any of the following areas:
  • Vendor Invoice Processing
  • Intercompany Invoice Processing
  • Vendor Maintenance
  • Account Reconciliations
  • Payment Processing
• Intermediate knowledge in MS Office applications is an advantage.
• Able to collaborate with team members, internal clients and management.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills within a multi-cultural business environment.
• Good communication skills. Able to engage stakeholders in a conversation. Able to express ideas or point of views both in oral and written communication.
• Advance understanding of accounting principles. Able to explain and recommend journal entries and troubleshoot accounting errors.
• Ability to cope with ambiguity and change and maintain high level of professionalism when working under pressure;

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