Position: Finance & Accounting Assistant Manager
Reports to: Finance & Accounting Manager, ASEAN
Role Overview
The Finance & Accounting Assistant Manager supports the effective execution of Vero Philippines finance and accounting operations, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely reporting in line with local statutory requirements and Vero Group standards.
This role works closely with the Finance & Accounting Manager and Regional Finance team, acting as a key operational partner to support business performance, financial discipline, and audit readiness.
Key Responsibilities
Finance & Accounting Operations
- Support and oversee day-to-day accounting activities including accounts payable, accounts receivable, petty cash, payments, and expense verification.
- Review and verify invoices, tax invoices, and supporting documentation for accuracy and compliance.
- Ensure proper documentation, filing, and record-keeping in accordance with internal controls and audit requirements.
Month-End & Financial Reporting
- Assist in monthly, quarterly, and annual closing activities, including general ledger support, balance sheet reconciliation, and cost allocations.
- Prepare supporting schedules and analysis for financial statements and management reports.
- Ensure timely submission of financial reports in line with regional reporting timelines.
Tax & Compliance
- Support compliance with Philippine tax regulations, including VAT, withholding tax, and statutory filings.
- Coordinate with external tax advisors, auditors, and government authorities as required.
- Stay informed of changes in local tax and accounting regulations and escalate relevant updates to the Finance & Accounting Manager.
Audit & External Coordination
- Coordinate and support internal and external audits, including preparation of schedules, documentation, and audit responses.
- Liaise with banks, auditors, and external partners to resolve routine finance or accounting matters.
Budgeting & Business Support
- Assist in budgeting, forecasting, and cost monitoring activities.
- Support preparation of management reports with basic financial insights and variance explanations.
- Respond to routine finance-related inquiries from internal stakeholders and regional finance.
Team & Process Support
- Provide guidance and day-to-day support to junior finance or accounting staff, where applicable.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of finance processes, controls, and reporting efficiency.
- Ensure adherence to Vero Group finance policies and internal governance standards.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- CPA or equivalent professional qualification is an advantage
- 67 years of relevant experience in finance and accounting
- Audit background or experience working with external auditors is a plus
- Solid knowledge of Philippine accounting standards and tax regulations
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and accounting systems
- Strong attention to detail, sense of ownership, and accountability
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and work independently
- Good communication skills in English (written and spoken)
Working at Vero:You will be a member of a multicultural team of communication specialists spread across the region and brought together by their passion for creative and efficient strategies. We take pride in creating deeply simulating flexible workplaces that are professional and inspiring.
Vero also invests in a comprehensive set of employee benefits, including but not limited to:
Other Benefits:
- Hybrid Office: Our team in the Philippines is moving to a hybrid office set up, where teams will spend 1-2 days each week in the office.
- Tech set-up: Vero offers one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media upon request, as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
- Working days: from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 6 pm (including 1 hour of lunch break). This may be flexible depending on workload and client needs. Despite the flexibility in working hours, we expect your full attention and capacity during business hours.
- International Travel: Where relevant and possible, Vero encourages teams to travel for events/client work and meeting Vero colleagues in the region. In any given year, manager-level team members have the opportunity to visit some of Vero's other offices, attend industry events, and follow their clients if they handle regional projects.
- Leave: Your allocated holiday time at Vero will be unlimited. We trust our people to use good judgement when given guidelines for making decisions about taking holiday and we know that our teams work better when they can rest and take a proper break from work. Our goal is that every team take an average of 15 days per person a year.
- Wellness day off: 1 paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, treat yourself with something nice.
- Thought leadership and training: We sponsor team-members with training tools and resources, both internal and external and we even incentivize employees to complete classes. Details of training programs and incentives will be shared upon your onboarding. This includes training and development investments organized by the company as well as specialized programs that our executives may come across and feel is needed for their development. For example, this could be a program organized by a group such as PR WEEK, PRCA or a training program that focuses on business in general. Across the Vero group we are seeking new and better ways to help people develop careers and of course this would apply to the Philippines too.
- Health Insurance: The Company will provide a private medical insurance as a benefit. The actual package and structure of the insurance may be determined by the Company and at its sole discretion.
- Mental Health Budget: Vero understands the importance of access to proper mental health support; all our employees can access counseling. The access to this budget and the content of your therapy are 100% confidential; only you and your therapist know what is being said during sessions, of course.
