Assistant Accountant - Payables

Essential Knowledge/Skills and Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field.
  
• 1 to 3 years relevant experience in a busy accounting office.
  
• Pursuing CPA certification with at least having passed the intermediate level.
  

• Ensure payments are made to suppliers consistently, accurately and within credit terms. This requires verification of supplier’s invoices against
  
• contract terms and other agreements(if any) before processing into the supplier’s ledgers.
  
• Review suppliers’ transactions for completeness and accuracy. This includes ensuring that suppliers invoices and the requisite supporting documentation is properlyauthorizeded for payment processing.
  
• Prepare suppliers invoices allocation schedules and ensure that operating expenses are allocated to the right cost centers based on the agreed allocation criteria.
  
• Prepare payment vouchersand follow up for prompt authorization.
  
• Set up, monitor and perform supplier reconciliationsfor major suppliers on a monthly basis.
  
• Prepare and maintain accruals and prepayment schedules.
  
• Support the monthly accounting closing process to ensure accurate and timely financials. This entails ensuring that end month accruals and prepayment journals are prepared and approved.
  
• Respond promptly tosupplier queries on invoices and payments
  
• Maintain the vendor/supplier files and monitor the accounts to ensure payments are up to date.
  
• Prepare and process tax and statutory cheques/EFTstimely to avoid penalties.
  
• Prepare and disburse accounts payable cheques or upload payment transactions to the online banking platforms for approvals and subsequent release.
  
• Support internal and external audit processes. This will also include supporting compliance reviews and statutory reviews.
  
• Any other duty that may be allocated by the supervisor.