Job Summary:

Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of nine accounting and tax professionals to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting. Oversee the department’s daily operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, bank reconciliations, tax compliance, and general ledger management. Strengthen financial controls by designing and implementing robust policies, procedures, and internal safeguards to protect company assets and maintain regulatory compliance.

Partner with senior leadership to provide strategic financial insights, leveraging data analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities, optimize revenue streams, and drive operational efficiency. Play a key role in shaping the company's financial strategy, ensuring sustainable growth and fiscal responsibility.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting and Tax Management

• Prepares, finalizes the financial position, performance, and equity changes of company financial standing for the use of the Board, Investors, Management, Audit, Stakeholders, etc. to be used for planning and decision making.
• Provides information about the economic resources of the company, claims, liabilities, equity and how these resources and claims have undergone change over a period of time.
• Designs and develops periodical, weekly, and quarterly financial reports and administers general ledger reconciliations.
• Maintains accuracy in all asset files, financial statements and provides support to all reports and bank accounts.
• Coordinates with various departments and performs variation analyses for all technical accounting problems to frame accounting policies.
• Manages schedule for all filing deadlines (NTC, BIR, SEC, BOC, LGU) and assists to close all procedures and ensures compliance to procedural and reporting standards.
• Performs accounting controls by executing policies and manages financial statements, performs account reconciliations and makes necessary corrections.
• Analyzes all proposed and existing legislation to avoid legal challenges in all financial reports.
• Provides assistance to manage all ad hoc projects and assists management on all accounting activities.

Project Cost and Fixed Asset Management

• Create and monitor a system of controls, procedures, and forms to record fixed assets.
• Record fixed asset acquisitions and dispositions in the accounting system.
• Track the compilation of project costs into fixed asset accounts, and close out those accounts once the related projects have been completed.
• Provide project costs and accrual for month end closing and reports.
• Track company expenditures for fixed assets in comparison to the capital budget and management authorizations.
• Prepares base costs related to recurring projects.
• Reconcile the balance in the fixed asset subsidiary ledger to the summary-level account in the general ledger.
• Calculate and analyze depreciation for all fixed assets
• Review and update the detailed schedule of fixed assets and accumulated depreciation.
• Review and calculate the potential obsolescence of inventory and fixed assets.
• Conduct periodic impairment reviews for fixed assets.
• Conduct periodic physical counts of fixed assets and coordinate the closing of issues related to audits.

Cost Control and Disbursement

• Review the commercial and tax provisions of the contracts.
• Maintain, monitor, record and prepare vouchers for all nature of expenses.
• Ensure validity of transactions according to corporate policies including compliance with guidelines and budgeted amounts.
• Coordinate with various departments and maintain records for account payables including regular review of aging report of payable and accruals.
• Collaborate with suppliers and resolve all issues of payment.
• Maintain and update all journal entries related to expenses and payables and perform month end closing and audits.
• Analyze processes, recommend improvements for same and manage all internal controls on documents. Perform vendor payment reconciliation on a monthly basis and serve as subject matter expert for various account payable functions.
• Prepare reports for reconciliation and ledger accounts.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Certified Public Accountant

Experience

• At least 5 years of experience in Financial reporting
• At least 2 years in Managerial role
• Strong foundation in PFRS and Philippine Taxation
• Strong understanding of financial and business controls
• Experience with Finance/Accounting ERP systems
• Experience in handling BIR audit

Preferred

• At least 8 years total working experience
• With working experience as an auditor in public firm

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Good planning and organizational to balance an prioritize work and to generate alternatives and solutions.
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills with proactive and solution oriented approach toward business issues.
• Knowledge and understanding of financial and business management principles with the ability to communicate and prioritize business requirements.
• Excellent communication and conflict resolution skills.
• Must be highly skilled in MS Office.
• Fluent English language skills at a business level.

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