Senior Accountant

Job Description

Senior Accountant – O2C | Finance Shared Service Center | Corporate Services

Overview of the role

As an (O2C) Senior Accountant in Group Finance Shares Service Centre (FSSC), he/she will focus on supporting the day-to-day activities of the O2C function whilst complying with organization’s policies and procedures and ensuring necessary checks and balances to mitigate risks through his team members:

This position will be responsible for the following.

• Ensure strong control and governance to the activities involved in Order to Cash process in compliance with company policies and procedures
• Drive further development and enhancement of the current process
• Ensuring daily/weekly/monthly partnering support to business operations are completed by O2C accountants
• Review GL Reconciliations
• Ensure risks/exceptions / interface fallouts highlighted by accountants are resolved on a timely manner by performing review, reconciliation, escalations, and substantiation of O2C accounts and reports.
• Review Accounts Receivables and overdues position shared with business to facilitate their follow-up and collection activities
• Review customer accounts reconciliation carried out by accountants
• Review provision working for various risks including doubtful debts as per Policy
• Review and approve various accounting entries made by accountants
• Review and comply with the department check list for month end and year end book closing
• Identify standardization and automation initiates and drive as a project for cost saving
• Ensure Support with resolution of audit requests (internal and external) within the submission timelines
• Review GL Schedules from the Balance Sheet Substantiation perspective as per the group initiative
• Support management with ad-hoc reporting requirements
• Liaise with IT Team, System, Process & Compliance Team, Divisional Controlling Team, and various Business Units to resolve issues, escalations, projects, and other initiatives
• Conduct review meeting with BUFCs
• To play an active role in transition and integration
• Review customer master data created by O2C accountants
• Review customer KYC documents updated by O2C accountants

What you will do

• Timely O2C partnering support to Business in day-to-day operations
• Review GL Reconciliations
• Daily collection control account monitoring and exception management
• Perform monthly / periodic reconciliation and substantiation of O2C accounts and highlight exceptions and related risks to the Business
• Preparation and circulation of periodic O2C exception reports & dashboards to stakeholders
• Perform assigned month end book closing tasks within O2C
• Computation of Provision for doubtful debts in accordance with Policy
• Identify and support process standardization and improvement initiatives to improve efficiency and quality of reporting for FSSC O2C processes
• Any other O2C activities assigned from time to time
• Actively participate in Transition activities

Skills

Required skills to be successful

• Good accounting knowledge (IFRS knowledge is preferred)
• Analytical as well as Process oriented
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Prior working knowledge in ERP systems (ex: SAP)
• Knowledge of Excel, Power Point and other Microsoft office tools
• Detail-oriented and organized

What equips you for the role

• Finance Graduate or Semi-qualified or Qualified or equivalent qualifications
• At least 2 to 5 years relevant experience within a large organization in a supervisory level, with a good knowledge of ERP systems.