Senior Associate Accountant
At a glance
Senior Accounting role at Surbanajurong. Mandaluyong City · full-time.
Pay not stated Accounting salary
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What you'll do
- Review routine transactions for accuracy and alignment with accounting controls and policies
- Investigate straightforward transaction problems with supervisors and colleagues, then help resolve them
- Reconcile selected accounts and flag issues to the senior accountant or team lead
- Maintain vendor account details, support audits, and check documents for invoice and payment processing
- Answer stakeholder questions about invoices and expense claims, and put forward process improvements
What you bring
- A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or a related field
- Three to five years of relevant experience in a listed area such as invoice processing or account reconciliation
- Basic accounting knowledge and the ability to communicate clearly with stakeholders and colleagues
- The ability to work professionally under pressure and adapt when priorities or circumstances change
Who this fits
This role suits someone with experience in finance operations who can handle transactional accounting work and coordinate with internal stakeholders. A finance shared services or BPO background is preferred, while SAP experience is an advantage; the listing specifies a two-to-four-year SAP requirement for assignments to SJ.
From the employer
Key Responsibilities
- Review and validate simple 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 simple transactional issues as necessary.
- Prepare reconciliations of selected simple accounts and advise the Sr Accountant/Team Lead of issues on the reconciliation.
- Coordinate the creation and amendments in vendor account details.
- Assist with audits by providing supporting records and documentation
- Performs preliminary checks and enters data for invoicing and 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 implement 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 (required 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
- Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt
- 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.
- Basic understanding of accounting principles.
- Ability to cope with ambiguity and change and maintain high level of professionalism when working under pressure;
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