Senior/Accounts Officer, Accounts Payable

Job Purpose

The role of the Accounts Payable involves providing financial, administrative and clerical support to the organisation. The role is to complete payments and control expenses by receiving payments, plus processing, verifying and reconciling invoices.

Responsibilities

Senior/Accounts Officer duties and responsibilities are as listed below.  Note that the list is not comprehensive and related duties and responsibilities may be assigned from time to time.

The Senior/Accounts Officer shall be assigned duties in Shared Services

• Processing supplier’s invoices, staff claims and intercompany invoices;
• Preparing monthly creditor reconciliations and audit schedules;
• Preparing weekly cashflow forecast to meet payments;
• Maintenance of vendor master;
• Month-end and year-end closing;
• Reconciling and following up for outstanding items on clearing accounts, creditors’ aging and bank reconciliations;
• Communicating/liaising with suppliers, Business Units, auditors and statutory bodies;
• Ensuring compliance with the company’s procedures;
• Preparing and filing GST and WHT;
• Participate in UAT;
• Administrative and other ad-hoc duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Work Experience

• Diploma in Accountancy
• Relevant working experience in a Shared Services environment.

Skills

Technical skills include:

• Good working knowledge of SAP and Ariba would be an advantage.
• Good numerical and Excel skills

Generic skills include:

• Meticulous in carrying out work orders 
• Able to meet tight deadlines and work in a fast-paced environment with a penchant for improvements
• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Good communication skills