About Evident
At Evident, we are guided by the scientific spirit - innovation and exploration are at the heart of what we do. Committed to making people’s lives healthier, safer, and more fulfilling, we support our customers with solutions that solve their challenges and advance their work; whether it’s researching medical breakthroughs, inspecting infrastructure, or exposing hidden toxins in consumer products.
Previously known as Olympus’ Scientific Solutions Division, we have over 100 years of history in the Micro Imaging Solutions and Test & Measurement businesses, with ~4,300 employees across 25 countries globally. We have six manufacturing facilities and four R&D facilities across Americas, Asia and Europe that enable us to deliver products promptly and efficiently to customers around the world, while developing and innovating products to meet our customers’ needs.
For more information, visit www.evidentscientific.com
Aboutthe Job
We are looking for a meticulous professional who is responsible for general accounting for the APAC region, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting in compliance with IFRS and company policies. In this role, you will manage the full cycle of monthly and year-end financial closings, prepare, review, and analyze financial statements, handle tax filings, and support audit reviews, all while ensuring strict adherence to reporting standards. Additionally, you will manage BPO vendors, lead process improvement initiatives, and actively participate in projects.If you excel in fast-paced environments and have a keen eye for detail, this role is the perfect fit for you!
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare, examine and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Perform timely and accurate month-end closing & year-end closing and reporting process in the given timeline.
- Monthly reconciliation and updating of Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) and General Ledger (GL), Trial Balance, Profit & Loss Statement (P&L) and Balance Sheet (BS).
- Handle full spectrum of accounting duties, including overseeing the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) vendor to perform account payables, account receivables, fixed assets and general ledger functions.
- Perform monthly Balance Sheet reconciliation and prepare monthly profit & loss schedules, balance sheet schedules, bank reconciliations and cash flow related reports.
- Prepare and review all accounts, sub-ledgers, and reporting, ensuring compliance with appropriate accounting standards and principles, as well as regulatory requirements.
- Review all month-end & year-end closing activities including general ledger accounts, balance sheet accounts, and overhead cost allocation, validate accuracy and completeness of accounting postings for the relevant closing period, responsible for timely and accurate month-end & year-end closing, reconciliations and reporting process.
- Maintaining proper cash flow records and developing cash flow projections.
- Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.
- Coordinate all information necessary for statutory reporting such as quarterly GST submission.
- Establish tables of accounts, and assign entries to proper accounts.
- Ensure compliance with government regulations, accounting standards and company policies.
- Liaise with banks on banking transactions.
- Liaison with auditors and tax agent and support in year-end statutory audit and tax filing/ queries.
- Oversee the month-end & year-end close process, constantly recommending/ implementing procedures to eliminate inefficiencies and enhance simplicity.
- Provide support to the Finance Projects Team by answering accounting queries and conduct GL code accounts mapping from local GL codes to Global GL codes, investigate system gaps and handle all other requests from the project team accordingly.
- Investigate on issues and drive process and/or system improvements across the entities, to reduce manual work and errors.
Qualification & Experience
- Possess at least Diploma / ACCA / Degree in Accountancy or equivalent.
- Min 8 years of relevant working experience with exposure to a wide range of finance/ accounting responsibilities.
Key Skills / Core Competencies
- Experience with using SAP ERP system.
- Skilled in both verbal and written communication.
- Proficient with MS Office applications with in-depth knowledge of MS Excel and other applications.
- Sound understanding of accounting principles and internal controls.
- Good knowledge of IFRS and ensure correct application in accounting records.
- Experience with finance projects, especially OneStream system is preferred.
- Experience with process/system improvements is preferred.
- Immediate starter is highly preferred.
- This is a 1-year contract role managed through a third-party vendor
