Position Description
Reporting to the Finance Manager, the Senior Accountant is responsible for managing the day-to-day finance and accounting operations, including entering journals, managing accounts receivable and payable, using financial technology systems, and other select finance-related administration. The Senior Accountant ensures timely reconciliation and reporting of all financial statements and prepares the report for other key stakeholders as requested; and maintains fiscal records. The Senior Accountant serves as the primary contact for internal staff on invoicing, bill payments, cash receipts and revenue, and budgets. The Senior Accountant also implements and trains staff to use software that streamlines processes.
Key Areas of Responsibilities
- Prepare and ensuring day-to-day transactions such as payment, accounts payable, cash receipts and accounts receivable, staff claim transactions, and payroll are recorded properly.
- Ensuring proper revenue and expense recognition.
- Ensuring all finance and accounting operations comply with Thailand accounting principles and federal and state laws and regulations.
- Responsible for the overall accounting, taxation and regulatory reporting.
- Performing timely and accurate month-end and year-end journal entries, fixed asset activity and balance sheet reconciliations (e.g. net assets and liabilities, revenue, expenses, payroll allocations, etc.), ensuring that accounting schedules are updated and accurate.
- Ensure the regulatory reports are prepared and submitted in a timely manner, presented in accurate reports in order to support the regional finance office and regulators.
- Coordinate with external auditors gather necessary documentation for semi-annual and annual audits, and ensure all transactions comply with Thai financial reporting and local regulatory standards.
- Continually seeking and implementing opportunities to streamline and improve finance and accounting operations through technology including training staff to better utilize financial and accounting software.
- Assisting the finance manager, director and budget managers in developing and monitoring departmental, project, and organizational budget; assisting with monthly financial reporting needs.
- Communicating regularly with the local finance manager and the regional finance office.
- Other duties as assigned to meet organizational requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree of accounting, finance.
- Minimum 6 years of financial management and accounting from financial services industry.
- Hold CPD License or CPA License is preferred.
- Good knowledge in Thai and International accounting standards, familiar with Thai Revenue Office and regulations.
- Codes, document control, billings, and accounts control.
- Thai native with good command of written and spoken English.
- Experience in oversea financial operation and transaction is preferred.
- Experience in SAP.
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications (i.e., Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.) with expertise in Excel required.
- Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
- Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and a commitment to CLSA's mission.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with experience collaborating in a multidisciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team.
