Senior Accountant

Position Summary

Reporting to Finance Manager, the main responsibility will be to perform all the tasks encompassed in an accountancy role. This will include closing of monthly, quarterly, and year-end accounts for the assigned country. Preparing statutory, management reports and liaising with internal and external parties for any financial related matters. Review of monthly accounting activities to ensure timely and accurate reporting.

Principal Responsibilities

Invoicing, collection

• Coordinate with accounting service provider to Issue invoices/credit & debit notes
• Monitor AR collection/aging, hospital instalment payments for equipment sales
• Liaise with 4PL to resolve billings issues
• Month-end margin adjustment and issue credit notes for samples withdrawal

Review vendor payment & staff claims

• Review payment raised by accounting service provider before payment is approved in HSBCNet; ensure supporting documents and approvals are in order, and staff claims are in compliance with IPP requirements.

Financial Reporting

• Submit monthly reports in Hyperion, reconcile balance sheet items in Cadency -Trintech system, submit tax package to HQ in One Source system, and provide ad-hoc reports requested by APAC controller.
• Prepare monthly inventory reconciliation and submit  PII report. Calculate quarterly E&O provision and submit APAC E&O report.
• Cashflow management: submit quarterly/yearly cashflow forecast projection to Corp Treasury
• Liaise with 4PL to perform monthly stock reconciliation
• Coordinate and liaise with external parties like external auditors, tax agents, bankers, corporate secretarial agents, local tax officers, and government authorities where required.

Audit

• Liaise with PWC on year-end audit activities.
• Prepare financial statement and Stat to GAAP reconciliation.
• Liaise with internal auditors on queries and remediate any deficiencies.
• Participate in annual stock check of consignment goods at ZP and hospitals

FP & A role

• Assist local management in tracking in-market sales by the salesman.
• Prepare BI sales upload data
• Compute monthly 4PL inventory holding by BU
• Support local management in special projects or analyses.

Tax reporting

• Review quarterly and annual tax computation done by accounting service provider.
• Strong knowledge in local tax requirement for withholding tax, VAT and Corporate tax. 
• Liaise with accounting service provider to ensure timely and accurate monthly and quarterly WHT and VAT filing.

Internal control

• Work closely with other departments to streamline processes and provide technical opinions on accounting matters. Ensure proper internal controls are implemented to safeguard company assets and mitigate risks.
• Liaise with 4PL to perform monthly stock reconciliation and monitor inventory scrap process. 
• Perform fixed assets physical count and check and monitor loan of equipment to hospitals 
• Maintain/update SOPs in share point (process improvement)

Others

• Assist in resolving operational issues e.g. VAT reporting, goods exchange request by hospitals
• Manage banking requirements, e.g., KYC questionnaire, HSBCNet  access
• Liaise with Corporate Secretary and Corporate Legal, e.g., coordinate filing documents,  change of bank mandate; record-keeping
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders & Pricing Manager on List Price and TP maintenance for new SKUs

Education / Experience Requirements

• At least a diploma in accounting or related qualifications
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in managing full set of financial reports and prepare financial projections
• Knowledge of Oracle Hyperion, SAP software experience is a strong plus
• Strong Excel skill minimum VLOOKUP, Pivot and basic formulas
• Meticulous, team player, works in fast-paced environment, high initiative, multi-tasking 
• Good oral and written skills in English
• Able to meet tight deadline and handle adhoc requests
• Strong technical knowledge in local (Country assigned) tax and regulatory requirement
• Experience in managing accounting service providers

Specialized Skills / Other Requirements

• Hands on experience in accounting and controlling in an international environment
• A self-starter who is able to plan, organize and take initiative to meet job objectives and meet tight deadline independently
• Team player, with ability to work well individually with all levels of personnel, positive and can-do attitude.
• Ability to work under pressure, resilience and accountable.