Assistant Finance Manager

Summary

Join Wati, a rapidly growing CPaaS company, as an Assistant Finance Manager! You will play a key role in ensuring accurate financial operations, supporting month-end closing, and providing timely financial insights. Collaborate with various teams to maintain financial compliance, drive process improvements, and support the company's growth. This role involves managing a team, preparing financial reports, and handling tasks such as vendor invoice recording, expense monitoring, and bank reconciliations. You will also assist with audits, tax filings, and budgeting. Wati offers a remote-first work environment and is backed by prominent global investors.

Requirements

• Professional accounting qualifications of HKICPA or CPA
• In depth understanding of IFRS
• Excellent command of both written and spoken English
• You must have 3-5  year of working experience across multinational environment

Responsibilities

• Ensure all vendors’ invoices are recorded accurately into the accounting system
• Monitor and review staff expenses through Approval Max  to ensure proper authorization and alignment with company policies before processing
• Prepare monthly expenses schedules, accrual and prepayment lists for management review
• Support revenue-related transactional activities, including but not limited to: reviewing and recording sales, preparing cash reconciliations to revenue, following up on AR reminders, and performing other ad hoc or recurring analysis
• Support daily bank reconciliations, ensuring unreconciled items are followed up and resolved in a timely manner
• Lead a team of 2 in completing month-end closing activities
• Support month-end close activities, including but not limited to: record of month-end close transactions in accounting system, preparation of balance sheet schedules and reconciliations, preparation of other ad hoc and/or recurring analysis, and completion of bank reconciliations
• Payroll preparation and reconciliation
• Assist in preparing the monthly/quarterly/annual financial reports, including preparing notes to financial statements and other schedules for disclosures
• Prepare intercompany reconciliations, ensure unreconciling items are identified and properly recorded
• Manage the cash flow and cash flow forecast to provide effective capital management
• Preparation of audit schedules and liaise with auditors
• Assist tax and legal consultant for the income tax filings, subsidies compliances,  and other regulatory submissions
• Collaborate with FP&A during monthly BvA exercise and also take the lead in opex budgeting cycle
• Assist in improving internal control procedures and ensure compliance with company policies to minimize financial risk

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of working in the MNC Company
• Experience of working in the Startup environment