Responsibilities:
- Monitor collection on a daily basis, weekly reporting to management on collection status and outstanding accounts
- Initiate contact with customers for payment status, liaise with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve billing and collection issues
- Organise monthly AR meeting and present the status of outstanding accounts to management and internal stakeholders
- Reconcile incoming collections and customer advances with accounting records and follow up promptly on any exceptions.
- Process adjustment and refund to customers where necessary and ensure they are properly accounted in the General Ledger
- Prepare and send statements of accounts to customers
- Assist with collection forecasting and budgeting
- Identify process improvement to improve DSO
- Resolve invoicing, collection, GST and withholding tax discrepancies
- Generate month end reports and prepare accountings schedules for audit, tax and SOX purposes
- Perform other ad-hoc duties as required and/or assigned
Requirements:
- At least Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy, Finance or Business or equivalent Accounting qualification
- Minimum of 3 years of accounting experience in a multi-national company environment
- A team player who is also able to work independently under minimal supervision
- Self-motivated and proactive in problem solving
- Positive working attitude, action oriented and meticulous
- Good understanding of accounting principles and practice
- Working knowledge of GST rules and withholding tax regulations
- Proficient in Microsoft excel (e.g. VLOOKUP, pivot table) and computer savvy
- Good command of written and spoken English
