About this Senior Associate Accountant role at SMEC
Primary Purpose of Position
The P2P Senior Associate Accountant primarily processes and reviews transactions including but not limited to Vendor Invoice management, Outgoing Pay Run, Invoice Processing, Travel Expenses processed by the junior staff in terms of their accuracy, completeness. They are also responsible to ensure quality service delivery and in a timely manner while adhering to standards, policies and procedures of the Surbana Jurong Group of companies and its subsidiaries.
The Sr. Assoc. Accountant may also be assigned to enter or process transactions, troubleshoot errors, improve the existing process, and other duties as required.
Key Responsibilities
- Review and validate simple transactions entered in our system ensuring high accuracy of all entries, and compliance to established controls, accounting principles and policies.
- In coordination with supervisors and colleagues, investigate and resolve simple transactional issues as necessary.
- Prepare reconciliations of selected simple accounts and advise the Sr Accountant/Team Lead of issues on the reconciliation.
- Coordinate the creation and amendments in vendor account details.
- Assist with audits by providing supporting records and documentation
- Performs preliminary checks and enters data for invoicing and payment runs.
- Communicate with the stakeholders on matters concerning invoices, and/or expense claims in a timely manner.
- Check validity and completeness of supporting documents presented by the stakeholders.
- Suggest and implement process improvement initiatives and best practices.
Key Performance Indicators
- Service Level Agreements are met.
- High-level accuracy on the performance of duties.
- Timely and accurate exchange of information, on-time resolution of transactional issues and achieve internal client satisfaction.
- Suggest process improvement initiatives and best practices.
- Establish collaborative relationships with internal clients to understand the business and continuously identify ways to be of service.
- Ensure high-level of confidentiality is maintained at all times.
- High level of participation and engagement in company activities would be encouraged.
Key Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field.
- Relevant professional certifications is an advantage (e.g. CPA, MBA …etc.)
- Relevant experience in a Finance Shared Services or BPO is preferred.
- Experience in any of the following Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an advantage:
- SAP MM/FI Module (required 2 to 4 years if assigned to SJ)
- 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience in any of the following areas:
- Vendor Invoice Processing
- Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt
- Intercompany Invoice Processing
- Vendor Maintenance
- Account Reconciliations
- Payment Processing
- Intermediate knowledge in MS Office applications is an advantage.
- Able to collaborate with team members, internal clients and management.
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills within a multi-cultural business environment.
- Good communication skills. Able to engage stakeholders in a conversation. Able to express ideas or point of views both in oral and written communication.
- Basic understanding of accounting principles.
- Ability to cope with ambiguity and change and maintain high level of professionalism when working under pressure
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