Senior General Ledger Accountant

Essential Functions and Responsibilities in support of the GL Senior Manager:

Review and approval (with timely posting) of all entries from the General Ledger, Accounts payable, Tax and Payroll teams ensuring these are accurate, correct, complete and fully supported with analyses, reference documents and approvals f
Review of monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations with generation of:
Process improvements
Discussion and implementation with process owners of the process improvements
Generation of needed adjusting entries to correct the balance sheet accounts
Direct the monthly financial closing
Ensure deliverables and global timelines for the company closing are met
Coordinate timelines and needed activities with all areas of Phils Finance
Guide and monitor compliances by each section in Phils Finance
Review cash advance, reimbursement, and replenishment requests
Ensure cash advances are well supported with valid documents
Ensure cash do not age and any advances not liquidated within due date are endorsed for payroll deduction (once liquidated, credit back the deduction in the next payroll period)
Reimbursements are supported with valid documents
Cash advances and reimbursements are within budgeted expenses and with complete superior approvals before releasing any funds
Obtain confirmation from Procurement to proceed with the cash advance (if cannot be catered by procurement due to limited timeline)
Prepare monthly spending analysis, financial package and financial statements for statutory reporting purposes (BIR, PEZA, SEC)
Preparation and finalization of annual budget (facilities and admin department, human resources, finance)
Based on budget assumptions and guidelines for the year
Ensure spend budget follow prior year trend and include new plans/projects/government guidelines in effect for the new year
Verify all AP payment transactions uploaded in Digibanker
Payroll payments
Vendor payments
Government payments
Employee non-payroll payments
Review endorsed government statutory payables for monthly remittance fully reconciled against the GL accounts
SSS
Pag-ibig
Philhealth
BIR
Manage the end-to-end audit process while acting as the first point of contact for external and internal audit
Financial Audit
Tax Audit
Assess current practices and procedures and drive the continuous improvement of end-to-end accounting practices.
Supervision and coaching of staff to ensure objectives are achieved, knowledge is shared and working papers are at its utmost quality
Various collaborations with the local Finance team and other teams outside Finance.
Ad Hoc Tasks to be assigned by the Senior Director of Finance of the company.