General Ledger Accounting Associate

Responsible to carry out the GL function duties to the assigned entities across EMEA and SA regions. Responsible in the preparation of monthly journals for the purpose of monthly closing process including and not limited to performing the GL functions which covers preparation of monthly schedules, quarterly reports and assist in budgeting and forecasting process; of monthly reports for process owners of the respective entities; and preparation of monthly controller package and relevant monthly reporting schedules.


Roles & Responsibilities

• Ensures financial closing activities of assigned Business Units are completed on a consistent, accurate, timely basis and in accordance with work instructions and month end closing checklist. Supports and responds accurately and timely to queries from BU stakeholders.

• Prepares journal entries accurately for month end closing on a timely basis. Ensures the journals are supported by adequate documentation and retained in an orderly manner in server.

• Performs analytical review of P&L and balance sheet to identify potential threats to financials, propose journal entries to ensure completeness of transactions based on the analysis carried out.

• Involves in Transfer Pricing, Intercompany and vendors activities, PO processing

• Prepares balance sheet reconciliation, investigate unreconciled or long aged items on a timely basis. Highlight any irregularities to Country / Regional Finance stakeholders and work with them to resolve / clear long aged items

• Prepares monthly / quarterly financial reporting to support management review and analysis

• Ensures internal controls and process improvement are in place within own scope of work

• Ensures compliance of statutory and legal requirements and liaise with auditors, tax agent and company secretary as necessary

• Undertakes any accounting & reporting requirements and ad-hoc duties / projects (including backup team member’s daily tasks during short period of absence) as assigned from time to time.

Qualifications

• Candidate must possess Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy / Finance or holder of a recognized professional qualification (e.g. CPA, ACCA & etc)

Requirements

• 1-2 years of relevant working experience and open to accounting fresh graduate but must be accountancy graduate.

• Good accounting concepts equipped with sound double entry knowledge

• A team player, meticulous, able to work independently under pressure and tight deadline.

• Keen to learn with strong sense of responsibility towards meeting the goals / KPI assigned

• Good communications skills with a good command of English

• Computer literate and competent in Microsoft office especially Excel

• Preferably with SAP system knowledge & Teradata

Key Result Areas

• Able to handle assigned general ledger accounting scope timely and accurately with minimal supervision

• Excellent business collaboration skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a broad and diverse group of stakeholders within our global organization.

• Continuous and performance improvement initiatives to identify and implement changes to optimize operational efficiencies and improve work quality.