Regional Finance Officer, Accounts Payable

Regional Finance Officer, Accounts Payable

Job Summary

• Responsible for maintaining accurate records of all of vendors’ invoices on indirect purchases.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate records of all inventory and logistics purchase invoices.
• Responsible for valuation and reconciliation of inventory.

Responsibilities:

Accounts Payable (AP)

• Verification and posting of vendor invoices accurately and on a timely basis.
• Ensure all taxes related to vendor invoices, such as GST and withholding tax are correctly applied during posting.
• Perform reconciliation of vendor’s statement of account to AP ledger.

Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV)

• Verification and posting of vendor invoices for inventory and logistics related expenses, to ensure:

1. All inventory cost and cost of goods sold transactional posting are recorded correctly per inventory value received into warehouse and drop shipment respectively.
2. Accurate and timely records of all logistic-related expense transactions and ensure proper cut- off at month end.
3. GST regulations are complied with.
4. Agreement of Intercompany balances at month-end.

Issuance of Debit / Credit Notes

• Responsible for the issuance of AP debit notes on defective items returned to affiliated companies on a timely basis.
• Ensure debit entries via the issuance of debit notes to affiliated companies are recorded accurately.

Reconciliation of Intercompany AP balances and confirmation of Corporate Netting

• Prepare monthly inter-company AP confirmation on a timely basis, sending and informing respective personnel in charge on discrepancy, if any.
• Prepare email confirmation to affiliated companies on the netting schedule and amount owing to Singapore Head Office for direct remittance to Corporate at the designated date as informed by Corporate.
• Prepare Netting schedule for Corporate review and approval within the first week of themonth.

Inventory & NLAG (Physical count and inventory devaluation provision)

• Co-ordinate the bi-annual inventory count, including drafting of the count procedures and printing of inventory listing prior to the count, reconciliation of inventory, between warehouse WMS report and SAP inventory balance.
• Ensure inventory count discrepancy has been followed up and report count result to management.
• Compute provision for inventory obsolescence according to inventory policy.

Verification of Internal Transfer Requisition (ITR) transactions

• Responsible for reviewing and verifying ITR transactions, to ensure documentation and process of all ITR transactions comply with Company policies, procedures, Company Financial Accounting Standard, FRS and JSOX.

Admin, Ad-hoc projects

• Support process improvement to enhance administrative and operation.
• Participate and support any ad-hoc projects.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of relevant experience in accounts payable and general accounting.
• Diploma in Accountancy or its equivalent.
• Meticulous and attention to detail.
• Confident to deal with a range of stakeholders.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize a demanding workload.
• Highly proactive and motivated.
• Able to work as a team and individually.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge of ERP systems, preferably with experience in SAP.