Finance Specialist

Responsibilities:

Financial Accounting and Reporting

• Specialize in financial statement closing process, for group and local reporting purposes, including the preparation/processing of journal entries, financial and management reports.
• Provide timely and value-adding financial information required by management, external auditors and various government regulatory bodies. Standard reports to deliver include schedules and reports to IC, SEC, and Financial Controls Team.
• Perform monthly reconciliation functions which include the following activities:
• Preparation of the reconciliation packages to ensure full compliance with the Accounts Reconciliation Standard;
• Monitoring and resolution of reconciling items to ensure that the account balances are reasonably stated;
• Communication and coordination with the different business units to resolve outstanding reconciling items; and
• Identification of the control issues and areas for improvement within the reconciliation function.
• Handle financial statement preparation and other SEC reporting requirements.
• Prepare Quarterly Reports, Annual Statements and other reports to be submitted to IC.
• Handle other regulatory requirements (LGU, BSP, etc.)
• Specialize in regulatory reporting requirements to SEC, IC, etc., ensuring that all regulatory reports are filed and/or paid on or before due date.

Internal Controls and Internal Audit

• Documents the processes and procedures involving financial accounting and reporting.
• Review and update of existing guidelines, processes, and procedures to effect necessary changes/improvements.
• Participate in the preparation of audit requirements for internal auditors.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Designation or similar credentials
• Experience in Accounts Reconciliation
• Experience corporate accounting or public practice, an advantage (preferably big 4 firm) and/or financial statements preparation of a financial institution.
• Experience in process improvements and automation is a plus.