Finance & Accounting Manager

Key accountabilities

Month-end close and book closure

• Own the month-end, quarter-end and year-end close calendar for the Australian and Philippine entities and close the books accurately and to deadline.
• Review and approve journals, accruals, prepayments, provisions, depreciation, payroll postings and intercompany entries.
• Reconcile every balance sheet monthly, with ageing, named ownership and a resolution plan for each open item.
• Maintain and enforce the close checklist, escalate blockers early, and drive days-to-close down rather than accepting the current position.
• Ensure accounting treatment is consistent, correctly applied and documented in line with the applicable standards and group policy.

Financial reporting and consolidation

• Produce entity-level profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statements with supporting schedules and written commentary.
• Prepare the consolidation inputs for the Australian and Philippine entities, including intercompany eliminations and foreign currency translation.
• Maintain the chart of accounts, reporting hierarchy and accounting policy application consistently across the entities in scope.
• Contribute to board, leadership and investor reporting to a consistently high standard of accuracy and presentation.
• Keep reporting audit-ready at all times, with a traceable trail from source data to reported results.

Philippine statutory, tax and regulatory compliance

• Own corporate income tax, VAT and percentage tax, withholding taxes, and all related returns, filings and attachments.
• Own statutory registrations and filings — Securities and Exchange Commission, Bureau of Internal Revenue, local government units, and the social agencies.
• Own payroll-related statutory obligations, including SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG contributions and remittances.
• Maintain a Philippine compliance calendar with named ownership, due dates and evidence of completion.
• Manage assessments, notices, audits and correspondence with the revenue and regulatory authorities, engaging external advisors where required.
• Maintain books of account and support documentation to the standard required on examination.

Australian entity support

• Prepare the tax computations, reconciliations, working papers and audit file for the Australian entities, to the standard and timetable set by the Senior Manager Finance in Sydney.
• Prepare the supporting data for Australian indirect tax and payroll-related filings, for review and lodgment in Sydney.
• Maintain the Australian balance sheet reconciliations and resolve open items rather than carrying them forward.
• Support the Australian statutory audit by assembling the file, answering queries and clearing adjustments.
• Escalate anything that could affect an Australian statutory or lodgment deadline immediately, not at the next reporting cycle.

Revenue assurance

• Own the revenue assurance framework end to end — that revenue earned is captured, billed, collected and correctly recognized.
• Reconcile revenue between the operational and source systems, partner and retailer statements, and the general ledger.
• Identify, quantify and resolve revenue leakage, under-billing, pricing errors, commission discrepancies and unbilled revenue.
• Validate commission, rebate, claw back and partner settlement calculations against the contracted commercial terms.
• Build controls and exception reporting that detect revenue issues as they arise rather than at year end.

Payables, receivables and treasury

• Own accounts payable end to end: vendor onboarding, invoice processing, matching, approvals within the delegation of authority, and payment runs.
• Own accounts receivable end to end: invoicing, collections, cash application, ageing, provisioning and dispute resolution, and drive days sales outstanding down.
• Control vendor master data and changes to bank details and payment instructions, with segregation of duties and fraud prevention across every disbursement channel.
• Own cash flow forecasting for the entities in scope, manage banking relationships, mandates and authorization matrices, and monitor foreign exchange exposure against group policy.
• Manage intercompany funding and remittance between the entities in scope.

Audit, controls and risk

• Act as the primary point of contact for the Philippine statutory auditors and support the Australian audit through the Sydney role.
• Own the internal control environment