Job Description

Financial Accounting Senior Associate
Job Purpose: Performs daily finance and accounting activities in any of the following fields: Billing, Cash Posting, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables and Payments. This includes data entry, account reconciliation, policy reviews and reporting requirement in line with the approved company processes and guidelines.
Duties and Responsibilities: Responsible for the accurate and timely processing of various transactional finance accounting activities in any of the following areas:
Billing

• Ensures the completeness of the customer charges including monthly recurring and one-off charges
• Completes the billing set-ups for new clients, renewal and expansion agreements
• Handles invoice disputes in line with company policies.

• Handles the timely and accurate postings of customer receipts, vendor payments and other general bank transactions
• Validates cash data entries made through company bank accounts, and uploading to the bank portal and accounting system(s)

• Allocates customer payments based on remittance instructions
• Handles customer retainer refund requests
• Resolves collections admin activities such as Account Suspension, Reinstatement and Hand-over to 3rd Party Collections

• Handles the timely and accurate processing of supplier invoices, expense requests and vendor maintenance
• Validates invoice data entries made by the Local Service Centres, and uploading to the accounting system(s)

• Delivers the daily transactional finance tasks within the defined service level agreements.
• Ensures that all accounting entries and reconciliations are completed for month end close, or other defined deadlines
• Identifies process improvements and deliver agreed process efficiency/effectiveness improvements.
• Supports in ensuring that process documentations are complete and up to date.
• Collaborates with other teams, providing support to auditors and legal authorities with the execution of required activities.
• Flags critical issues to the Team Leaders/Managers to aid quick and accurate resolution of the problem.

• College/Bachelor's Degree in Finance/Accounting/Banking or equivalent
• 2-3 years related experience
• Highly proficient in using various accounting and office applications
• Dynamic, hands-on, proactive self-starter. Resilience is a must.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and organisational skills
• Results driven
• Ability to adapt to change, demonstrating flexibility and ownership of the change
• Proven ability to deliver to tight deadlines
• Customer service approach, focused on serving all key stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills