Job Responsibilites:
• Review reconciliations of all supplier, staff, bank and ledger accounts to ensure that
they are up-to-date and accurate. This would involve follow-up within or outside the
section to resolve pending items to ensure that year-end adjustments are kept to
the minimum.
• Check the integrity of interfaces, completeness of data and review of
accrual/prepayment journals generated by the system referring any
discrepancies/anomalies to immediate supervisor with recommendations for
corrective action to ensure monthly closing and quarterly hard closing deadlines are
met and accounts display the correct balances.
• Maintain accurate, up to date documentation on manual and system process
followed in the section as a part of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and user
guides. Ensure that changes in procedures are promptly updated and
communicated to the team. Identify enhancements and modifications required to
improve the processes, present potential enhancements/ modification to team
leader for consideration.
• Assist auditors through investigation of queries raised from financial systems to
enable a thorough response to be provided.
• Check supporting documentation used for updating masters in the financial systems
and approve the same to facilitate auto accounting and staff recoveries.
• Specific to Payables:
Timely Entry requires the accounts payable person who opens the mail to enter a
date received on the invoice, and update the invoices details.
• Review supplier invoices which are pending due to non-availability of supporting
documents (manual or system based) and/or unauthorised to ensure
acceptance/rejection of the invoices.
• Approve payments to suppliers and service providers by referring to supporting
documents and authorisation manual to ensure correct payments and optimum
utilisation of agreed credit period.
• Advise the daily/weekly funds requirements based on due payments to ensure
timely payment to suppliers.
Qualifications & Experience:
• Candidate must possess at least a Diploma in Accountancy or any professional qualifications
• At least 3 year(s) of working experience in the related field
• Experience in handling high volume of transactions with reconciliation work
• Able to start work immediately will be an added advantage