Reporting to the Assistant Manager, the accountant is responsible for maintaining accuracy of the financial statements for multiple legal entities.
Open to candidates with audit experiences and looking for a change to accounting or finance career move. You must be adaptable, able to work in a dynamic environment and willing to learn.
This is a regional accountant role, incumbent will have opportunities to look after a different legal entities in various countries , perform monthly review and support statutory audit.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
• Respond to inquiries from Statutory Entity Reporting Management with explanations referencing local GAAP
• Assist with checklist and reconciliation template. Obtain inputs from BPO Management
• Prepare monthly statutory required for financial statements (US GAAP to local GAAP)
• Assist with the gathering/preparation of transfer pricing documentation
• Support preparation of government statistical reporting
• Support template reviews, tool & GAAP/ legal updates, functionality
• Prepare audit adjusting journal entries as directed by the Statutory Lead
• For issues identified through statutory audits, Investigate root causes, contribute to remediation plan and report the status and timing of open issues
• Prepare and submit pre-audit requests as determined by the external auditor
• Support statutory audit issue identification and draft resolution
• Consolidate tower variance analysis into an entity level view and follow up with BPO Mgmt Team as necessary
• Serve as a partner to business owners of assigned entities and facilitate monthly pre/post close calls
• Produce entity close packages for regions including variance analysis, risk and issues log, and Balance Sheet Aging
• Produce other reports including NRE reporting
• Distribute and analyze results of customer satisfaction survey
• Prepare Director’s Pack prior to obtaining signatures
• Manage Pension accounting. Non-Material plans are not evaluated or reviewed by the Corporate team, but are required for US GAAP and Local GAAP accounting
• Manage Intangible accounting. Local accounting teams need to monitor compliance with US GAAP and Local GAAP policies. Assets should be monitored for impairment testing based on both US GAAP and Local GAAP rules
• Provide support for internal audit and external audit and Auditor’s queries
• To support implementation of process improvement projects to new/existing processes
Requirement for the position:
- You should have experience as preparer/hands on role for audit, variance analysis/proficiency in Excel (Pivot Table, handling massive data)
- Global experience is plus but not a must
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Accountancy
- Possesses at least 2 years relevant experience in accounting as Journal, month-end review, statutory/annual audit and/or with internal audit or public accounting in any industries
- Applies accounting theory and principles are mandatory
- Attention to detail and possess good analytical, problem solving skill
- Good written, verbal and interpersonal communications skills to work collaboratively with different stakeholders and remote teams
- Proactive and independent team player who enjoyed working in dynamic environment
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications especially Excel
- Oracle Cloud accounting system
- Location : Changi South
This is for a start a temporary to perm role. Both junior and senior positions are available.
