Accountant

Job Description:

The Accountant is responsible to provide finance shared service to Testia Asia Pacific Pte Ltd including General Ledger, AR and AP, Fixed Assets, Treasury, Taxation, Audit and Group Reporting, Internal Controls activities.

He/She works closely with both internal and external stakeholders to deliver results, ensure compliance with statutory requirements, ultimately achieving customer satisfaction on the accounting service provided.

Responsibilities:

General Ledger and Reporting (GL)

• Perform month end closing steps such as posting of payroll and expense claim reports, posting of accruals and other journal entries, run revaluation
• Perform account analysis and reconciliation to ensure that journal entries and balances are correct
• Prepare Sales reports, Management reports, GL reconciliations, Bank reconciliations and Audit schedules
• Submits monthly reporting to Head of Finance Testia
• Collaborate with internal departments to gather, analyze, and interpret relevant financial information.
• Ensure accounting is performed to adhere to local and group accounting standards
• Work closely with stakeholders eg external auditors, corporate secretary to ensure compliance with all statutory requirements
• Responsible for external audit process and prepares statutory financial statements

Fixed Assets

• Fixed Asset Management in SAP, familiarize with business capitalization rules and depreciation policies
• Cleanse the asset register through regular data checks including assets disposal requests.
• Support the Fixed Assets reporting compliance with the Accounting rules

Accounts Receivable (AR)

• Perform daily finance operational duties in AR, including checking and posting of sales invoices, taking in receipts, sending statement of accounts.
• Gather required documentation from Business and submits to Finance Manager to create or edit customer master in SAP to ensure compliance with Company’s directives and procedures
• Run AR Ageing Report and follows up with intercompanies on long aged receivables

Accounts Payable (AP)

• Account Payable Master Data Management including Vendor verification and validation process with Internal, External and Central stakeholders for 3 local Companies (Testia, Airbus Singapore, Airbus Asia Training Centre). This include gather and submit documents required for on-boarding or updating of vendors on SAP P11 vendor master, perform call back to vendors to confirm bank details during bank mapping process.
• Manage communication between AP team and stakeholders (e.g. purchasing team, requesters, vendors, Bank), ensuring that all queries and issues are addressed timely
• Checking of 3-way match of supplier invoices on Goods Received and Invoice Received posting.
• Ensure timely and accurate posting of supplier invoices
• Ensure payments are made on time
• Review checking on vendor & intercompany reconciliation
• Be the focal point for finance related supplier queries

Taxation

• Prepares and submits quarterly GST filing
• Prepares corporate income tax computation for statutory filing
• Prepares and submits withholding tax filing
• Liaise with tax agent to ensure compliance with all statutory requirements

Internal Controls

• Ensure compliance with internal controls and Airbus finance directives
• Responsible for internal controls exercises/audit for Testia
• Support in internal control activities of AHSA (Airbus Helicopters) Taiwan Branch office including being the vendor master owner, annual ICSA (The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators) preparation

Others

• Support in Company’s digital transformation (eg migration of ERP, deployment of digital tools etc)
• Act as back up to Other Accounting function in the Shared Service team
• Any other ad-hoc duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Degree or diploma in Accountancy or ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) with experience in financial accounting.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience with a full set of accounting experience preferred.
• Knowledge in Financial Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards, Taxation (GST, company income tax, Withholding tax)
• Proficiency in SAP and Google Workplace applications will be of advantage
• Hands on, organized and meticulous with an eye for details.
• Self-driven and independent
• Good interpersonal skills
• Willingness to accept and support changes