Finance Associate
Job Summary
This role ensures that all liquidations are properly recorded and submitted in a timely manner with complete supporting documents. Responsibilities include monitoring and preparing monthly reconciliations, handling accounts payable functions, and processing credit card transactions. The successful candidate will also manage tax forms, filing, and ad-hoc reports as requested by management.
Responsibilities
- Receive and check liquidations for credit cards, OPEX, and cheque undertakings
- Prepare journal entries and monthly GL reconciliations
- Handle AP recording functions, tax forms, and billing processes
Required Skills
- BS Accountancy or related course
- 6 months to 1 year general accounting experience
- MS Office and ERP systems (Netsuite) proficiency
- Strong analytical and communication skills
Job Details
To ensure that all liquidations are properly recorded, submitted on a timely manner, ensure the completeness of the supporting documents and company details in receipts/invoices. To monitor and prepare a monthly reconciliation of the Advances to Officers & Employees- OPEX, Cheque Undertaking and Credit Card.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Receiving & checking of Liquidations from Advances to Officers& Employees for Credit Cards. Ensure all liquidations are complete before check payment to BDO
- Receiving & checking of Liquidations from Advances to Officers & Employees for Operating Expenses (OPEX). Preparing provisional receipt (PR) and deposit slips for cash returned by employees.
- Receiving & checking of Liquidations from Advances to Officers & Employees-Cheque Undertaking. Ensure all liquidations are supported with acknowledgement receipts
- Preparing of journal entries for liquidations of Cash Advances-Credit Cards, Cheque Undertaking & OPEX
- Reviewing Cash Advances of Resigned Employees (if there’s any) before their respective Exit Clearance is signed by accounting, Finance Supervisor/Finance Manager
- Follow-up liquidations of Advances from Company Credit Card Account Holders & respective Employees with Cash Advances regularly on a monthly basis
- Reconciliation of GL balances of Adv. to Officers & Employees-Credit Card, Adv. to Officers & Employees- Operating Expenses and Adv. To Officers & Employees – Cheque Undertaking
- Receiving of O.R.’s with charged slips to clients from assay test liquidations
- Preparing APVs for assay test expense/s chargeable to client/s.
- Generate monthly BDO credit card billings and sending to all cardholders
- Monitoring of auto charged utility transactions and online payment of certain utilities
- Process the increase in credit limit of Credit Card holder, change of billing email address and/or contact number, enrollment of new credit card request, deactivation of credit card and enrollment of utilities in auto-debit arrangement with BDO
- Checking of outstanding cash advance of employees for the cheque request.
- Assists in other AP recording functions i.e., Fund replenishments for FDA, OPEX and logistics
- Assists in Issuance of Expanded Withholding Tax Form (2307 Form) – analyzing and computing applicable withholding tax/es in every payment to supplier
- Filing of liquidation documents and other files.
- Ad hoc – any necessary or needed reports/records as requested by the immediate head
Qualifications:
- BS Accountancy or any accounting-related course
- 6 months to 1 year of experience in general accounting
- MS Office proficiency, familiar with Netsuite or other ERP systems
- Must have very good communication skills both verbal and non-verbal
- Must have strong analytical skills
- Result-oriented individual, ready to work on tight deadlines