Accounting Assistant (Remote)

Outsourcing; Philippines; Remote; PHP 279,000 - 390,600; Full time

Job summary

A leading outsourcing firm in the Philippines is seeking an experienced Accounting Assistant to provide vital support in managing financial records through cloud-based systems. Responsibilities include ensuring ledgers are up-to-date, participating in month-end closing tasks, and assisting in account reconciliations. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, CPA certification is a strong plus, alongside excellent communication skills, detail orientation, and a proactive nature. Join the team and contribute to achieving departmental goals.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall accounting duties through processing financial information.
• Ensure financial ledgers are up to date on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
• Participate in the month-end close process and perform assigned tasks.
• Assist with maintaining a clean and updated general ledger.
• Prepare ad-hoc reports for management as needed.

Skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Highly detail-oriented

Ability to analyze financial records

Good time management skills

Self-driven and proactive

Willingness to learn new tools and software

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field

CPA certification

Job description

In this role, the Accounting Assistant provides vital support to our client by performing overall accounting duties through processing the available financial information in the cloud-based accounting systems of the client. The Accounting Assistant ensures that the financial ledgers are up to date on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. This may include, but is not limited to, processing of sales and purchase invoices, bank transactions, reclassification journals for revenue, recurring, accrual, and payroll entries.

Aside from that, the Accounting Assistant participates in the month end close process, ensuring timely and accurate execution of the assigned month end close tasks, provides assistance to the client & leadership team with maintaining a clean and updated general ledger, including account reconciliations and resolving of discrepancies. The Accounting Assistant also assists the Operations Leadership team, including the Accounting SME and Operations Management, and/or other team members where needed to accomplish the department goals, and to prepare ad-hoc reports to the management as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field of study
• CPA certification is a strong plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Highly detail-oriented
• Able to analyze financial records
• Self-motivated and independent
• Good time management skills; able to prioritize
• Self-driven and proactive nature.
• Highly driven and willingness to learn new tools and software.