Responsible for the overall direction, control, and implementation of Accounting System in the Philippines manning operation office.
Responsibilities
Financial and Operation
- Manage the daily operation of the Finance department.
- Oversee tax preparation, auditing, banking, and other financial needs as necessary.
- Review financial data and produce accurate financial reports within deadline including balance sheet reconciliation.
- Recommend and maintain a system of policies and procedures that impose an adequate level of control over Finance department activities.
- Attend and lead the financial and tax audits (internal/ external).
- Administrate and monitor issuance of company official receipts.
- Attend to seafarers concerns relating to finance and welfare issues (government contributions, allotment, net salary, final wages, etc.).
- Act as Finance Business partner to other departments.
- Support various process harmonizing and improvement initiatives, including monitoring, maintaining, and improving the reporting structure and templates.
- Other ad-hoc duties as assigned.
People Management
- Participate in recruitment, training, performance evaluation and staff engagement activities.
- Update orientation checklist and conduct briefing to new staff.
- Monitor work progress and ensure staff meet deadline for financial management reports.
Corporate, QMS & Process Improvement
- Responsible for the corporate income tax payment thru Electronic Filing and Payment System (eFPS) and ensure timely submission of government required reports.
- Ensure quality work in compliance with the ISO 9001 Standards.
- Initiate Risk Based Analysis to prevent any potential nonconformity or recurrence of any nonconformity.
- Monitor and verify effectiveness of corrective actions identified to resolve non-conformities.
- Ensure that processes suitable for the quality management system are established, implemented and maintained to achieve its intended results.
- Promote awareness of customer requirements throughout the organization.
- File, organize and maintain the master copy of Work Instruction and other QMS related quality records.
- Provide internal control and process improvement recommendations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in accountancy/ finance, CPA, or equivalent.
- 7 years of progressive finance or treasury experiences, with supervisory experiences.
- Preferably with experience in maritime industry
- Ability to organise, plan, coordinate, and control personnel performing varied functions.
- Ability to relate to people at all levels in the organization.
- Must have good written and oral communication skills.
- Hands-on approach, with ability to work under pressure.
- Communicate policies and procedures with the use of considerable tact and diplomacy to elicit cooperation from peers and subordinates.
