Junior Project Finance Specialist

Wsp; Philippines; On-site; PHP 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Wsp Philippines is seeking a Junior Project Finance Specialist to support reconciliations of agency invoices with timesheets, and to assist the Finance partner in streamlining processes. Strong accounting knowledge and problem-solving mindset are essential as you handle high-volume invoices and data reconciliation.

Responsibilities span reporting, processing invoices, and ensuring accuracy across agency accounts, with collaboration across remote teams and finance partners to maintain up-to-date

Qualifications

• Tertiary degree in commerce, accounting, finance, or business administration.
• 2–3 years in a finance analyst or finance management role.
• Strong Excel skills: pivot tables, formulas, data sort/filter, VLOOKUP, SUMIFS.
• Awareness of accounting principles and their application to project work.
• Analytical, detail-oriented with ability to work independently and with remote teams.

Responsibilities

• Distribute weekly timesheets to Agencies.
• Maintain web timesheet mailbox and respond to queries.
• Confirm, late timesheet approval to agencies.
• Be able to process a high volume of invoices.
• Assemble and review invoices to be completed for payment.
• Obtain proper information/data through weekly timesheets to align payments.
• Process travel and expense reports and oversee distributions in a timely fashion.
• Research and investigate to clear disputed invoices and provide recommendations.
• Reconcile agency statements with vendors to clear discrepancies.
• Reconciliation of Agency account to General Ledger.
• Proactively initiate and follow-up on credit notes.

Skills

Excel advanced

Pivot tables

VLOOKUP

SUMIFS

Data sorting/filtering

Analytical thinking

Education

Degree in commerce/accounting/finance/business administration

Tools

Excel

Pivot tables

Formulas

Data utilities

Job description

Junior Project Finance Specialist

Company : Wsp Job Type : Full Time Philippines

Job Description - Junior Project Finance Specialist

The Junior Project Finance Specialist will assist the Finance business partner in providing reconciliations of agency invoices against the timesheet details. The Finance Analyst should be aware of accounting principles and should be able to provide solutions to streamline processes.

Responsibilities

Reporting and Analysis

• Distribution of weekly time sheets to Agencies


• Maintain web timesheet mailbox (including attending queries)


• Confirm, late timesheet approval to agencies


• Be able to process a high volume of invoices


• Assemble and review invoices to be completed for payment


• Obtain proper information and/or data through weekly timesheets to align invoice payments


• Process travel and expense reports and oversee distributions in a timely fashion


• Research and investigate to clear disputed invoices and provide recommendations


• Reconcile agency statements to ensure that accounts are up to date and correspond with vendors to clear discrepancies


• Reconciliation of Agency account to General Ledger


• Proactively initiate and follow-up on credit notes

Training and Development

• Complete relevant and mandatory training


• Knowledge of IMS and WSP procedures and policies to educate self and others


• Identify patterns of knowledge gaps though auditing and provide feedback to management to implement training plans

Qualifications

• Tertiary degree in relevant field preferable (commerce, accounting, finance, business administration)


• At least 2-3 years' experience within an finance analyst role or finance management role


• Ability to utilise spreadsheets and create pivot tables, formulas, data format/sort/filter, VLOOKUP, SUMIFS


• Awareness of accounting principles, practices, and methods and their application to project work-related issues.


• Analytical mindset with an ability to exercise sound independent judgement in evaluating situations and making decisions with financial implications to the company


• Effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to a financial and non-financial audience


• Ability to learn new techniques, perform multiple tasks simultaneously, follow instruction, work independently, and comply with company policies


• Effective self-leadership with attention to detail, results orientation, and managing multiple priorities in a dynamic work environment


• Ability to productively work with remote teams and build strong relationships with engineers, commercial leads, finance business partner


• Attention to detail


• Approachable and adaptable


• Open to and actions feedback


• Positive team contributor


• Able to work autonomously