Senior Accountant
Work Location: Yangon
Job type: Full-Time
Posted: 29-12-2020
Salary: 800,000 - 1,200,000 Kya / Monthly
Email: soe.htway@40hrs.com.mm
Job Responsibilities
- Maintain up-to-date billing system
- Generate and send out invoices
- Follow up on, collect and allocate payments
- Carry out billing, collection and reporting activities according to specific deadlines
- perform account reconciliations
- Monitor customer account details for non-payments, delayed payments and other irregularities
- Research and resolve payment discrepancies
- Review AR aging to ensure compliance
- Maintain accounts receivable customer files and records
- Follow established procedures for processing receipts, cash etc
- Prepare bank deposits
- Investigate and resolve customer queries
- Process adjustments
- Develop a recovery system and initiate collection efforts
- Communicate with customers via phone, email, mail or personally assist with month-end closing
- Collect data and prepare monthly metrics
- Process accounts and incoming payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures
- Perform day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, computing, posting and recording accounts receivables’ data
- Prepare bills, invoices and bank deposits
- Reconcile the accounts receivable ledger to ensure that all payments are accounted for and properly posted.
- Verify discrepancies by and resolve clients’ billing issues
- Facilitate payment of invoices due by sending bill reminders and contacting clients
- Support HR and Finance departments in preparation of monthly payroll and tax process
- Generate financial statements and reports detailing accounts receivable status
- Support month-end and year-end close process
- Assist in preparation of monthly management report and accompanying schedules, worksheets and narratives, including “Budget vs. Actual” variance reports.
- Assist in providing follow-up and documentation of significant variances
- Assist with annual external audit. Complete requested materials. Assist in preparing assigned schedules for the annual and any interim or other audit.
- Assist the CFO in developing, documenting and implementing business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls in a start-up office environment
- Liaise with the CFO to continue to design and improve financial procedures
- Wide range of ad hoc but related tasks in the area of work, supporting the CFO and wider team
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- ACCA, LCCI, or comparable
- Strong analytical and accounting skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent English skills
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- 5+ years’ proven experience in Finance and Accounting
- Experience working in an international organisation
- Good knowledge of IFRS/MFRS
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office products
- Good knowledge of accounting/finance software
- Familiarity with Myanmar banking processes and online banking (iBanking)
- Knowledge of Myanmar Government Tax obligations
- Knowledge of Xero Accounting and/or other accounting software packages would be a strong advantage
- Understanding of financing and insurance products would be a strong advantage
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