The Accounting Officer reports to the Accountant to support the finance department in carrying out the responsibilities of the accounting department. He/She covers duties such as work that is specific to accounts receivable, accounts payable, tax filing, data compilation, billing, payroll or other accounting tasks. He/She works specifically with accruals, fixed assets accounting or the monthly and yearly finalisation of accounts for audit purposes. He/She assists with the preparation of trial balance, basic financial statements and simple consolidated financial statements. He/She may be called on to participate in ad-hoc finance-related projects and systems testing when necessary.
Responsibilities :
- Assign account codes to all transactions in the accounting system.
- Calculate customer/supplier account balances and reconcile with totals.
- Compile the relevant business documentation used in banking processes.
- Enter accurate and timely data into the accounting system.
- Maintain accurate financial records and statements.
- Perform month-end closing activities.
- Process payroll transactions in the organisation's accounting system.
- Record and process all business transactions within the organisation's accounting system using principles of double-entry accounting.
- Record transactions and events relating to inventory, accruals, prepayments, capital structure and finance costs.
- Record transactions and events relating to sales, purchases, receivables, payables and cash.
- Retrieve system reports from the accounting system for management use.
- Use relevant IT systems and tools effectively for data analysis.
- Able to prepare full set of accounts and perform Bookkeeping functions on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis for different types of companies and businesses
- Able to prepare and compile financial and management reports
- Preparation, submission and filing of GST returns for our clients
- Preparation of Audit Schedules and liaising with external auditor during Annual Audit
- Having relevant knowledge of corporate and personal tax and handle simple tax computation and able to liaise with IRAS if necessary
- Any other duties/tasks as assigned
Others:
Working Hours: 9.00am to 6.00pm (Monday to Friday)
9.00am to 1.00pm (Saturday)