Senior Accountant (Start ASAP)

Centro Escolar University; Makati; On-site; PHP 420,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

An educational institution located in Metro Manila is looking for a finance professional to ensure accurate financial reporting and compliance with accounting standards. This role involves assisting in maximizing working capital, preparing essential reports, and ensuring all transactions are accurately recorded and reviewed. The candidate will play a key role in managing financial documents and filing them appropriately to meet regulatory requirements. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute significantly to the university's financial health.

Qualifications

• Timely release and presentation of fair financial reports to stakeholders such as management and government agencies.
• Assist in maximizing working capital and cash.
• Ensure all accounts are updated.
• Assist in the preparation of reports needed by management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely release and presentation of financial reports.
• Assist in maximizing working capital and cash.
• Ensure all accounts are updated.
• Assist in the preparation of management reports.
• Short-term or long-term cash investment
• Due to/from related parties
• Prepayments and other current assets
• Other non-current assets - deposits, deferred tax assets
• Investment properties
• Property and equipment
• Investment in shares of stocks
• Investment in subsidiaries
• Review function
• To ensure all transactions recorded from all source documents are reviewed prior to posting
• To ensure that all transactions are posted every cut off period
• Filing of documents
• Updating of permanent files for deposit documents
• Updating of permanent files - ITR, FS received by SEC, GIS, AOI and by Laws
• Filing and safekeeping of year-end working papers

Job description

Essential duties

• To ensure timely release and presentation of fair financial reports to its stakeholders - management, government agencies such as the BIR, SEC, SSS, HDMF,
• To assist in maximizing working capital and cash
• To ensure all accounts are updated
• To assist in the preparation of reports needed by the management

Specific functions

• Financial reporting
• Financial management
• Ensuring correct reports and compliance with accounting standards
  • Bank reconciliation
  • Short-term or long-term cash investment
  • Due to/from related parties
  • Prepayments and other current assets
  • Other non-current assets - deposits, deferred tax assets
  • Investment properties
  • Property and equipment
  • Investment in shares of stocks
  • Investment in subsidiaries
• Compliance with government agencies
  • BIR - Income tax
  • BIR - EWT
  • BIR - VAT
  • BIR - WHT COMPENSATION
  • BIR - others
• Review function
• To ensure all transactions recorded from all source documents are reviewed prior to posting
• To ensure that all transactions are posted every cut off period
• Filing of documents
  • Updating of permanent files for deposit documents
  • Updating of permanent files - ITR, FS received by SEC, GIS, AOI and by Laws
  • Filing and safekeeping of year-end working papers