Deployment: Full-time, on-site at the client’s main Jakarta office, with off-site work as agreed
Reports to: Consultant Manager
Role Purpose
Lead the Finance & Accounting workstream and develop practical, documented accounting policies, manuals, procedures and control matrices aligned with the agreed scope and relevant internal-control findings.
Key Responsibilities
- Review relevant internal-control findings, current policies, accounting documents and existing processes; conduct limited walkthroughs with designated process owners.
- Develop or refine the Accounting Policy Framework and Finance & Accounting Manual, including recording principles, month-end closing, reconciliations, documentation, review and process controls.
- Draft priority SOPs and Work Instructions for General Ledger and journals; closing and financial reporting; cash and bank; payments and maker-checker; tax-to-GL reconciliation; and accounting treatment for fixed-asset disposal/write-off.
- Review the Chart of Accounts (COA), account definitions, standard journal entries and accounting treatment; recommend refinements where required and supported by available data.
- Develop Finance-related Delegation of Authority (DoA), Segregation of Duties (SOD), approval and maker-checker requirements, covering initiation, review, approval, recording, payment and reconciliation.
- Prepare process flowcharts, control matrices and supporting documentation for agreed deliverables.
- Coordinate with the governance/SOP consultant and IT stakeholders to ensure that responsibilities, controls and system requirements are consistent.
- Conduct review sessions with process owners, maintain issue and decision logs, incorporate one consolidated management-comment cycle per document, and prepare final documents for client approval.
- Identify unresolved accounting matters, dependencies and out-of-scope items for escalation to the Manager and client management.
Required Experience and Competencies
- Substantial professional experience in Finance & Accounting, accounting policy, financial controls and procedure development.
- Demonstrated experience preparing or reviewing accounting manuals and SOPs for a medium-sized or complex organisation.
- Working knowledge of general ledger, journals, month-end closing, bank reconciliation, payment controls, fixed assets and tax reconciliation.
- Ability to assess COA structures and standard journal/accounting treatment matrices.
- Strong analytical writing, documentation, stakeholder facilitation and quality-review skills.
- Knowledge of Indonesian accounting and tax requirements relevant to assigned work; specialist tax opinions and tax-return preparation are outside scope unless separately agreed.
- Professional accounting qualifications are strongly preferred; candidates must accurately disclose qualifications and current professional standing.
- Finance & Accounting Policy Framework and Finance & Accounting Manual.
- Priority Finance & Accounting SOPs/WIs and related process flowcharts.
- Finance-related DoA/SOD inputs and approval/control matrices.
- COA, standard journal and accounting-treatment refinements where agreed in the deliverables register.
- Tax-to-GL reconciliation framework, cash/bank control framework and closing/reporting framework.
- Review notes, issue/decision log inputs and completed documents for final handover.
Performance Expectations
- Deliver agreed outputs to the approved four-month workplan and deliverables register.
- Maintain consistency, traceability, clear version control and professional document quality.
- Escalate missing data, delayed decisions, material control gaps and scope changes promptly.