Accounting Assistant

Metro Oil; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 300,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Metro Oil in the Philippines seeks an accounting professional to assist in preparing financial reports and bank reconciliations. The role includes reviewing the general ledger, investigating discrepancies, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards.

You will analyze transactions, update cash positions, monitor checks, and support month-end closing with journal entries and movement analyses. The ideal candidate will have a background in accounting and experience with monthly closing

Qualifications

• Assist in preparation of financial reports and bank reconciliation procedures.
• Review and reconcile the general ledger, investigate discrepancies, and take corrective actions.
• Analyze financial transactions for accuracy, completeness, and policy conformance to GAAP.
• Update cash position by recording payment requests.
• Weekly monitoring of checks and identifying unreleased checks.
• Support closing activities with journal entries, analysis, and explanations of movements.

Responsibilities

• Prepare financial reports and bank reconciliations.
• Reconcile GL and investigate discrepancies with corrective actions.
• Analyze transactions for accuracy and GAAP compliance.
• Update cash position with payment requests.
• Monitor checks weekly and flag unreleased items.
• Assist closing with journal entries and movement analysis.

Skills

Financial reporting

Bank reconciliation

General ledger review

Journal entries

Closing activities

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Job description

• Assist in preparation of financial reports and Bank Reconcilation

• Review and reconcile the general ledger, identifying and thoroughly investigating any discrepancies and taking the proper corrective actions to resolve them

• Analyze financial transactions to determine accuracy, completeness, and conformance to established policies and procedures and generally accepted accounting standards

• Update the cash position report by recording all requests for payment

• Weekly monitoring of checks prepared, and identifying every unreleased check

• Supporting closing activities including but not limited to processing manual journal entries, providing analysis and commentaries to account movements and variations, requesting for supplementary information, supporting any other accounting and reporting activity related to the closing period