Junior Compliance Analyst: Audit, Reporting & Controls

REED ELSEVIER SHARED SERVICES (PHILIPPINES) INC.; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

REED ELSEVIER SHARED SERVICES (PHILIPPINES) INC. is seeking a Finance professional to coordinate external audits, prepare statutory financial statements, and support tax and regulatory reporting across in-scope entities.

You will work with auditors, tax agents, and business partners to resolve queries and strengthen internal controls. The role emphasizes process improvement, audit readiness, and knowledge sharing on accounting policies, with opportunities to apply AI-enabled workflows for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• CPA or equivalent professional qualification is an advantage.
• 4 to 6 years of relevant experience in external audit, statutory reporting, financial reporting compliance, tax compliance support, or finance shared services.
• Big 4 audit experience, multinational company experience, or finance shared services/BPO experience is highly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of accounting standards, statutory financial reporting, audit requirements, taxation principles, and financial statement preparation.
• Good understanding of end-to-end finance processes, including Record to Report, Procure to Pay, and Order to Cash, and how these processes affect financial reporting and controls.
• Advanced skills in reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, audit schedules, management reports, trial balance analytics, and complex account balances.
• Ability to apply professional skepticism, identify risks or control gaps, ask effective questions, and recommend practical solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with auditors, tax agents, business partners, and cross-functional finance teams.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills; experience with enterprise accounting systems such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, or similar platforms is an advantage.
• Self-starter who is pragmatic, hands-on, adaptable to change, and committed to continuous improvement and high-quality delivery.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply enterprise AI tools and technologies to support technical workflows and business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support the annual external audit process, including preparation, review, tracking, and timely completion of audit deliverables, statutory accounts, and supporting schedules within agreed RELX and local regulatory deadlines.
• Prepare, review, and analyze statutory financial statements, disclosure notes, regulatory reporting requirements, tax packs, indirect tax reporting schedules, transfer pricing support, and other compliance-related submissions for in-scope entities.
• Perform financial statement review procedures, including trial balance analytics, balance sheet reconciliation quality checks, audit schedule reviews, exposure summaries, and investigation of unusual variances or accounting issues.
• Work closely with Finance teams, business units, tax agents, external auditors, internal auditors, and other stakeholders to resolve accounting, audit, tax statutory reporting, and compliance queries in a timely and professional manner.
• Support the effectiveness of internal controls by identifying control gaps, process risks, audit findings, and compliance issues, and by recommending practical remediation or mitigation actions.
• Contribute to SOX, internal controls, audit readiness, process documentation, and compliance review activities, ensuring that evidence, narratives, schedules, and supporting files are complete, accurate, and well organized.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and automation opportunities across statutory reporting, audit coordination, financial review, tax compliance support, and related finance processes.
• Provide technical guidance, training, and knowledge sharing to accountants and finance stakeholders on local regulatory requirements, accounting standards, audit expectations, and RELX accounting policies and practices.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Microsoft Excel

Analytical skills

End-to-end finance processes

Trial balance analytics

Balance sheet reconciliations

Auditing knowledge

Professional skepticism

Accounting standards

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance

CPA or equivalent qualification

Tools

Oracle

SAP

PeopleSoft

Job description

REED ELSEVIER SHARED SERVICES (PHILIPPINES) INC. is seeking a Finance professional to coordinate external audits, prepare statutory financial statements, and support tax and regulatory reporting across in-scope entities.

You will work with auditors, tax agents, and business partners to resolve queries and strengthen internal controls. The role emphasizes process improvement, audit readiness, and knowledge sharing on accounting policies, with opportunities to apply AI-enabled workflows for