Chief Accountant

The Chief Accountant is primary responsible for the full spectrum of accounting functions for entities within the Finance Group. This role reports to the Head of Finance for the country.

ResponsibilitiesPerform full spectrum of accounting functions for subsidiaries within Finance Group, including preparation and review of balance sheet, profit and loss and reporting packages and managing the internal review for these documents.
Coordinate with regional process leads, local country functional team (AR/AP/MP), regional reporting team and finance business partners to ensure month-end and year-end close is completed on time.
Perform analysis of monthly fluctuation of profit and loss and balance sheet.
Review month-end closing reporting packages prepared by the GL team.
Review monthly month-end closing timeline and checklist to ensure that timelines are agreed in advance.
Manage the preparation of statutory financial statements, including managing communication with external auditors on accounting issues, and to ensure auditor's agreement with the company's decision on accounting issues and disclosures.
Coordination of annual external audit and quarterly reviews for group audit.
Supervise accounting standards application, issue identification and resolution.
Implement and maintain reporting procedures to comply with internal control requirements, including review and approval of journal entries, bank reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations prepared by the team.
Review VAT files prepared by GL team.
Review corporate tax filing schedules prepare by GL team to be submitted to tax team.
Perform continuous assessment of the close process and process re-engineering to reduce the timing to close the financial period.
Subject matter expert for key systems, including suggesting improvement areas.
Participate in projects as required.