Accountant

Job Description

Accountant (6 months contract)

Supplier payments/Employees' expenses for APAC:- To ensure all invoices/claims are properly supported, duly approved, and are in accordance with the company policy as well as managing the queries/requests sent to the disbursement mailboxes.

Areas of Responsibility

Accounts Payable and Disbursement
• Upload supplier invoices (PO/non-PO) into Ariba and route for approval.
• Perform weekly AUD/SGD pay-cycles + ad-hoc urgent manual payments, if any.
• Prepare weekly fund request file
• Follow up with requestors on approval for invoices that remains long in 'reconciling' status.
• Liaise with 3rd party contractor and provide supporting documents for payment related matters, if any.
• Look out for any Giro return transactions from bank statements and prepare Payment Cancellation form and liaise with the bank for the Giro return reason to rectify the error.
• Prepare Close Liability form for invoices incorrectly posted and seek approval.
• Review the AP Aging report to ensure nothing out of the norm.
Other ad hoc duties
• Attend to audit sample requests sent from GBS Statutory and Compliance Team
• Assist with queries on cash reconciliation items regarding AP disbursements.
• Create supplier ID for new supplier/new hire in PeopleSoft, if required urgently.
• Prepare journal entries in cases of receiving a refund.
• Attend to employees' queries regarding Ariba matters.

Concur
• Attend to employees' queries regarding Concur matters.
• Update changes in reporting manager upon receiving the weekly Direct Report Change file, if any.
• Send reminder emails to respective corporate card holders upon receiving the outstanding credit card report follow up on the status for filing the transactions in Concur.
• Ensure that all expense claims/credit card transactions have been duly approved prior to any resignee's departure

Essentials

1. Diploma or equivalent experience in Finance

2. Above average skills in Microsoft office suite

3. At least 2 years working experience

4. Fluent in spoken and written English

5. General knowledge of Media/News Broadcasting Sales

Desirables

1. Experience in media or technology industry

2. Fluent in a secondary language such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean

3. Experience in using Ariba and Peoplesoft

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gkwo7p-3-141-41-187-42 in your application.