What We're Looking For
The Accountant is responsible for maintaining the integrity and accuracy of financial statements and the month-end closing activities for assigned legal entities in the APAC region. Works on assigned account reconciliations, establishes documents, and works with department staff on applying accounting processes and procedures.
Responsibilities
•Managing daily general accounting activities.
•Performing month-end activities and preparing financial statements including income statements, balance sheets, profit-and-loss, and other accounting statements, and participating in regional financial statement reviews.
•Preparing and maintaining records of general ledger accounts and all journal entries necessary for monthly close, monthly account reconciliations and investigating reconciling items.
•Maintaining compliance with accounting standards and regulations (e.g., U.S. GAAP, SOX, internal controls, accounting policies and procedures, inclusive of local regulations).
•Driving US and statutory accounting GAAP compliance, conversant in IFRS and US GAAP and the impacts to statutory accounting.
•Collaborating with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders across geographies.
•Responsible for all statutory filings (annual accounts, direct and indirect tax returns, statistics, etc.), and coordinating the approach with external service providers.
•Collaborating with other departments – AR, AP, Payroll, FP&A, Treasury, Tax, Internal Audit, Facilities, etc.
•Contributing to innovation ideas.
•Participating in projects and company initiatives, process improvements and ad hoc assignments.
Required Skills and Experience
•Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance. Professional qualifications (e.g. ACCA/CPA) is an added advantage.
•Minimum 1-3 years of experience, preferably in an accounting firm and/or MNC.
•Knowledge of transfer pricing and treasury will be an added advantage.
•Experienced user of Oracle ERP and conversant in Microsoft Office applications with strong capability in BI tools (such as PowerBI, Power Query, Power Pivot) is added advantage.
•Excellent written and oral communication skills. Conversant in Mandarin language is an added advantage.
•Proven experience in supporting cross-functional teams and drive efficiencies.
•Results-oriented, analytical and has attention to details.
•Agile and an enthusiastic team player.
•Good time and workload management, able to meet strict deadlines with high quality output.
Benefits
We understand the importance of work-life balance and wellbeing, which is why we offer flexibility for our teams including: hybrid work, adaptable hours, Summer Flex Fridays, Focus Fridays, and an annual companywide well-being day to promote revitalization and success.
