General Accounting Senior Accountant

POSITION SUMMARY

The
Senior Accountant
will be responsible for record to report value stream for complex entities, including holdings entities. He/she will also be responsible on completion of month end closing, financial analysis, including balance sheet reconciliations. The senior accountant's primary objective is to act as the chief accountant of the company he/she will be assigned to, assists accountants and contribute to the APAC Finance vision and its operations. This role involves high interaction with different stakeholders in APAC.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Month End Closing:
  Complete monthly closing of books; prepare and record assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses journal entries by compiling and analyzing account information; and calculate and post cost and corporate allocations.
• Financial Analysis and Reporting:
  Summarize financial status by collecting information, preparing balance sheet, profit and loss, other financial statements and provide relevant analysis on account's flux and trend.
• Balance Sheet Accounts Reconciliation:
  Prepare monthly balance sheet accounts reconciliation, discuss risks and opportunities by analyzing aged and outstanding items. Approval of accounts may also be assigned for simple entities.
• Tax Accounting:
  Collaborate with tax team on reconciling tax accounts and posting tax related journal entries.
• Statutory and Compliance:
  Evaluate internal controls for all key processes. Test the current operations and tweak the design of existing process and financial controls. Assist on external and internal audits by providing relevant information to auditors
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• Stakeholder Management:
  Determine and assess client and key stakeholder's requirements, ensuring that these are met. Build and sustain good working relationship with APAC finance teams.
• Knowledge management:
  Create and help maintain work instructions (WI) on in-scope processes, ensuring compliance in ISO standards.
• Process Improvement:
  Identify inefficiencies, standardize procedures, support change management.

QUALIFICATIONS (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES)

• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills: ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret accounting transactions
• Has a thorough understanding of accounting standards and how they are applied in variance and transaction analysis
• Ability to communicate well in accounting parlance with clients, auditors, managers, and colleagues within the organization effectively and assertively
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and ability to interact with employees and stakeholders at all levels
• Deadline driven and ability to work effectively in a high growth and rapidly changing environment
• Ability to learn continuously such as emerging industry standards, tools and applications (AI)
• Ability to take initiative with a focus on continuous improvement
• Demonstrates leadership skills and customer-focused attitude
• Possesses independence, reliability, and the ability to work with minimal supervision while maintaining strong attention to detail.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in oral, written or diagram
• Maintain objectivity and ensure guarding of financial information and confidential data

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND /OR EXPERIENCE

• Possesses a Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy, Finance or related field. (Certified Public Accountant /Certified Management Accountant preferred)
• Solid experience (at least 3 years) in month end closing, financial analysis, budgeting, and other corporate finance work
• Solid experience in financial accounting, operating in a Global Business Services (GBS) or Shared Service industry

OTHERS

• Willingness to work in a hybrid work environment, with a minimum of three days in the office.
• Reports directly to the Manager of General Accounting team.
• This position is mainly an Individual Contributor

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