URGENT
Location : Irrawaddy Road
Position : Senior Admin Executive, General Accounting – Finance Shared Services
Contract period : Immediate – 6 months to be extended if officer is suitable.
Working Hours Mondays – Thursdays 8.30am to 6pm, Fridays 8.30am to 5.30pm, 1 hr lunch break
Experience :
External audit, Payments, Accounts receivable, accounting function in SME preferred
• Fresh degree holders are welcome to apply
• Prior experience in a General Accounting role will be an advantage
• Prior experience in using SAP will be an advantage
• Prior experience of working in a shared services environment will be an advantage.
Shortlisting process to set up.
• Excel /written test – 1hr, to be provided within 3 working days by 9am of the 3rd business day.
• Teams video conference interview to be set up after the written test is completed and results reviewed
Test 1 - Excel Test that candidate has to pass to be provided within 3 working days by 9am of the 3rd business day.
Salary range : Degree Finance/Business/Accountancy - (fresh grad salary) - around $3000- $4500 per pax per month depending on relevant working experience.
Attributes required for the job.
• Proficient in Excel.
• Open to try out automation tools – Python, RPA, Visual Basic, Excel Macros.
• Have effective self-management mechanisms, and be able to collaborate with all stakeholders.
• Ability to understand and apply work procedures and policy intent
• Can relate to issues and challenges and is comfortable with ambiguity and unforeseen challenges.
• Able to communicate problem encountered effectively, e.g. raising helpdesk queries, escalating for reporting officer’s attention.
• To be able to judge and prioritise work assigned effectively.
• To possess a high level of emotional intelligence and understand impact on customers because of lapses.
• To possess good hands-on knowledge of processes as well as rationale of tasks to be performed.
• To be to remain calm in stressful situations and process a high volume of transactions in a short turnaround time, while maintaining accuracy.
• To manage time effectively and process returns with high accuracy.
• To ensure good knowledge of latest automation tools that are available.
Job description (General) :
General Accounting
• Responsible and accountable for maintaining accounting records timely and accurately through the journal adjustments.
• Responsible and accountable for maintaining Master Data records in the financial systems.
• Responsible to perform assigned tasks pertaining to period-end reconciliations
• Responsible and accountable to perform assigned tasks pertaining to period and/or year-end activities (eg. Collation of year-end returns)
Impact
The General Accounting function is not merely engaged in processing transactions but facilitates the aggregation of data in computer systems to enable meaningful performance report to be prepared. Failure in doing so may results in erroneous presentation of data and trends to Senior Management for decision-making purpose.
Job description (key responsibility areas)
• Perform period-end reconciliation of account balances between NFS and ILMS to ensure accurate reporting and fund commitment between both systems, and take action to resolve the reconciliation differences.
• Work with ILMS Vendor and stakeholders to resolve re-processing errors, journal interfacing issues to ensure journals posted in NFS are successfully interfaced to ILMS
• Prepare Period-End returns and related submissions to Accounting Officer for MHA as required in AGD's Financial Year-end Circular.
Perform period opening and closing in line with month-end and year-end activities. eg. depreciation run, and fixed asset transactions to prior periods.
• Provide inputs based on past experience and knowledge learnt
Maintenance and update of automation and process improvement tools, e.g. RPA bots, data analytics dashboards.
