LUXASIA is hiring a
General Ledger Specialist

Summary

The job is for a Financial Reporting role at LUXASIA, a leading beauty distribution platform. The role involves transition, compliance, operations, continuous improvement, and requires 3+ years of experience in Financial Reporting or other accounting functions.

Requirements

• Education: Candidate must possess at least a degree in finance and accounting or business studies; and/or Chartered or certified professional accountant or equivalent
• Working Experience: Minimum 3 years’ experiences in Financial Reporting or other accounting functions. Competent candidates with lesser years of experience are considerable

Responsibilities

• Transition: Active participation in the transition of Country GL processes into shared services team including work shadowing and SOP documentation preparations. Active contribution to ensure operation readiness by Go-Live date
• Compliance: Support internal audits by working closely with Local Finance team. Ensure compliance with IFRS and company procedures to ensure integrity of financial information. Ensure adequate follow up on issues identified during external and internal audit
• Operations: Respond to and solve enquiries from Country Finance Manager. Work with Local Finance team to understand local activities, prepare trial balance and investigate trial balance account fluctuations. Prepare and ensure adequate supporting documentation of journal entries for the financial closing in accordance to Group Accounting policies
• Operations: Handle fixed assets creation/disposal, General Ledger, Reconciliation, Balance Sheet, P&L Account in SAP system and perform monthly depreciation run. Preparation and review of monthly financial reports: P&L, Balance Sheet, cash flow movements, management report, tax report and inventory reconciliation
• Operations: Prepare for bank reconciliation, Interco reconciliation and follow up on the unreconciled items. Ensure adherence to strict month end and year end deadlines. Undertake any accounting & reporting requirements and ad-hoc duties or projects as requested
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and articulate improvement areas across processes. Involve in process implementation, automation, and standardization of R2R activities

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical Knowledge: Preferably experience working in SAP system or other major ERP system’s work environment. Experience in a shared service or business process outsourcing engagement will be an added advantage
• Others: Beauty/Retailing background is preferred. Able to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines and work as a team player. Has initiative, possess a good attitude, interpersonal communication skills, detailed, results-oriented, problem-solving skills, and performance driven

Benefits

Key Results/ Measures: Time management, Accuracy, Completeness