Assistant Manager, General Ledger

Job Summary

Handle Month End Closing activities. Support Finance related initiatives, system implementation, change and process enhancement activities to support business, statutory and regulatory changes. Participate in setting up new accounting postings for new product launches.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform accurate and timely month end closing activities, month end journals posting, accruals, intercompany transactions and etc.
• Perform monthly Balance Sheet reconciliation. Proactively follow up with business functions on all aged outstanding reconciliations/ collections/ payables in a timely manner. To prepare analysis for review on Management Expenses and highlight key material variances with explanations for material exceptions.
• Perform and review intercompany billings and ensure all charges are in accordance with the Service Level Agreement. This includes review and drafting of service level agreements. Also to ensure all billing in compliance with e-Invoice requirements. To ensure timely intercompany settlement within the group.
• Fixed Asset Accounting. Ensure accurate and timely month-end fixed asset closing. This includes monitoring capital expenditure against budget.
• Maintain and update of SAP Master Data Request and listing for Finance (e.g. creation of Chart of Accounts, Cost Centre, WBS-Project RPT) and master data mapping in SAP CAP.
• Liaise with auditors. Handling audit queries and resolving audit issues.
• Support core and non-core system implementation, change or enhancement including drafting of user requirement, support user acceptance testing for finance modules and perform parallel runs to compare outputs from legacy and new systems
• Participate in setting up new accounting postings for new product launches including drafting of user requirement, support user acceptance testing.
• Continuously review and implement controls to improve efficiency of processes within the Finance Department.
• Any other duties as and when deemed necessary.

Key Requirements

• Degree in Accountancy or other equivalent Professional Qualifications
• Min 5 year(s) of working experience in related field. Candidates with audit experience are encouraged to apply
• Good command of English (both written and oral),
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Knowledge and experience in SAP accounting system, knowledge and experience in writing business user requirement, banking payment facilities are added advantages.
• Have a strong sense of commitment, teamwork, good interpersonal, communication stakeholder management skills. Meticulous and detailed oriented.
• Knowledge and experience in finance transformation would be an added advantage with ability to establish possible automation and improvement in daily finance operation and activities
• Proficient in the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT for tasks simplification

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