Specialist Accounting (Accountant)

Maintains proper and adequate accounting records to ensure accurate reporting of the company's financial results. It sits within the Finance team and offers exposure across various accounting functions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory, fixed assets, tax, and financial reporting. Responsibilities are assigned based on the successful candidate's experience and team needs, and team members have opportunities to rotate across different accounting areas over time.

• Handle accounts payable matters, including recording supplier transactions, scheduling and settling payments, reviewing accounts payable detail, and reconciling with the general ledger.
• Screen purchase requests and payment requests to ensure compliance with company policy and tax regulations.
• Handle accounts receivable matters, including recording customer transactions, settling collections, issuing sales invoices or credit notes, issuing monthly GUI and customer statements, reviewing accounts receivable detail, reconciling with the general ledger, performing AR aging analysis
• And following up overdue items.
• Handle inventory and cost matters, including recording supplier transactions, purchase returns, payments, inventory depreciation and revaluation, reviewing stock value reports, and reconciling with the general ledger.
• Handle fixed asset matters, including recording acquisitions, disposals, reclassifications and monthly depreciation, reviewing fixed asset ledger detail and movement reports, reconciling with the general ledger, and performing yearly physical counts of fixed assets.
• Manage IFRS 16 lease accounting, including lease contract review, system upload, and related accounting administration.
• Ensure shop sales are properly reconciled between POS and ERP, and assist with reconciling store cash and credit card transactions, analysing and resolving cash discrepancies.
• Review bank reconciliations and follow up discrepancies, and support month-end and quarter-end closing.
• Support monthly expense analysis and cost control within RFC/budget, prepare account breakdowns and reports as required, and perform physical inventory counting and variance analysis.
• Prepare monthly withholding tax payments, reconciliations, and yearly withholding statement summaries for the tax authority, and issue GUI and prepare VAT report (401) to ensure compliance with tax regulations and proper reconciliation with accounting records.

• At least 3 years of experience in financial accounting within a multinational organisation.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.

• Experience in a CPA firm is preferred.
• Finance degree preferred.

• Exposure across various accounting functions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory, fixed assets, tax, and financial reporting.
• Opportunities to rotate across different accounting areas over time to broaden accounting knowledge and experience.

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