Accounts Associate

About the role

This role involves performing day-to-day accounting data processing for Singapore and Malaysia clients, including processing and maintaining accounting transactions in Xero and other relevant accounting platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Process and maintain accounting transactions in Xero and other relevant accounting platforms
• Perform Accounts Receivable (AR) processing, including preparing sales invoices, debit notes and credit notes, processing quotations, importing and processing POS transactions, updating collection records, and preparing relevant AR and DSR reports
• Perform Accounts Payable (AP) processing, including processing supplier bills, debit notes and credit notes, performing purchase order and supporting document matching, performing statement of account (SOA) reconciliation, processing staff claims and other business expenses, and maintaining accurate AP records
• Assist with month-end accounting activities, including preparing schedules, checking transactions completeness and supporting necessary accounting adjustments
• Support Xero-related activities, including data import, transaction processing, document management and basic issue troubleshooting
• Assist with XBRL and financial statement preparation, including data preparation, roll-forward of prior-year information, casting and cross-referencing
• Support corporate tax-related data preparation, including preparing P&L information and required Excel schedules for tax computation and filing
• Perform document and data management, including saving and organising client documents, downloading and saving reports from relevant platforms, maintaining client folders and SharePoint records, creating folders for new financial periods, and archiving older financial year documents
• Identify missing information, unusual transactions or processing issues and raise queries to the relevant team members for clarification
• Work closely with the Record to Report and Accounts Finalization teams to ensure smooth handover and completion of accounting workflows

About you

• Degree in Accounting, ACCA or equivalent
• Good command of English with ability to interact well with internal departments and external clients
• Self-motivated, independent, pro-active, with great initiative and a team player
• Good learning attitude
• Good project and time management
• Open to technology in adopting applications to perform work efficiently
• Ability to work with large data set through software
• Preferably minimum 1 year of accounting and Xero accounting software experience
• Meticulous and organized