Hybrid Process Expert, GBS Finance Operations – General Ledger

at APL Logistics

• Job title: Process Expert, GBS Finance Operations – General Ledger
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Pasig City, Philippines

About the role

• Responsible for financial closing and reporting for assigned Business Units. Preparing journal entries and supporting documentation for month end closing and ensuring accurate financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Ensures financial closing activities of assigned Business Units are completed on a consistent, accurate, timely basis and in accordance with work instructions and month end closing checklist. Supports and responds accurately and timely to queries from BU stakeholders.
• Prepares journal entries accurately for month end closing on a timely basis. Ensures the journals are supported by adequate documentation and retained in an orderly manner in server.
• Performs analytical review of P&L and balance sheet to identify potential threats to financials, propose journal entries to ensure completeness of transactions based on the analysis carried out.
• Involves in Transfer Pricing, Intercompany and vendors activities, PO processing
• Prepares balance sheet reconciliation, investigate unreconciled or long aged items on a timely basis. Highlight any irregularities to Country / Regional Finance stakeholders and work with them to resolve / clear long aged items
• Prepares monthly / quarterly financial reporting to support management review and analysis
• Ensures internal controls and process improvement are in place within own scope of work
• Ensures compliance of statutory and legal requirements and liaise with auditors, tax agent and company secretary as necessary
• Undertakes any accounting & reporting requirements and ad-hoc duties / projects (including backup team member’s daily tasks during short period of absence) as assigned from time to time.

Requirements

• Candidate must possess Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy / Finance or holder of a recognised professional qualification (e.g. CPA, ACCA & etc)
• 1-2 years of relevant working experience
• Good accounting concepts equipped with sound double entry knowledge
• A team player, meticulous, able to work independently under pressure and tight deadline.
• Keen to learn with strong sense of responsibility towards meeting the goals / KPI assigned
• Good communications skills with a good command of English
• Computer literate and competent in Microsoft office especially Excel
• Preferably with SAP system knowledge & Teradata