Senior Accountant / Accountant

Senior Accountant / Accountant

Join our global team for a career filled with opportunities to solve challenges both small and large, local and global, simple and complex. Main Responsibilities and Tasks

• Ensuring that all relevant transactions for the accounts under his/her charge are properly transcribed, checked and posted to the accounting system in a timely basis.
• Ensuring outgoing invoices, debit notes, credit notes and statement of accounts for the accounts under his/her charge are prepared correctly and in a timely manner.
• Reconciliation of balances for inter-company transactions of the accounts under her charge with Wilhelmsen Group of Companies and with other companies in WWASA Group timely.
• Review General Ledger of company's accounts under his/her charge periodically for ensure that statutory financial reports and management reports are prepared timely, accurately and consistently.
• Follow up prompt payments from customers.
• Liaising with related personnel to collect payment for invoice under disputes and long overdue.
• Follow up and clear outstanding items in the accounts for companies under his/her charge timely.
• Ensure that the accounts under his/her charge are in compliance to the IFRSs and Company's Accounting Policies.
• Ensure that the financial records and accounts related documents for companies under his/her charge are retained according to statutory requirements.
• Ensuring periodic financial reports under his/her charge are correctly prepared; reviewed and submitted on time for consolidation purposes.
• Preparing and sending General Ledger and Reports to the person-in-charge of the department/company periodically or as requested.
• Ensure that all financial reporting is carried out in accordance with agreed procedures.
• Preparation, disbursement, staff tax calculations and compliance with tax laws for monthly staff payroll.
• Compiling and supervising records under his/her charge pertaining to acquisition, sale, disposal, writing off of Fixed assets pertaining to the company.
• Providing details of budget follow-up reports and compiling comments.
• Preparation and report of WSM budget.

Treasury

• Ensure that payment requisition is raised correctly and attached with original invoices and claim form which has been properly matched with the supporting documents before submitting for payment.
• Checking all payments to suppliers/authorities to ensure payments are correctly and timely prepared and with proper supporting documents prior to signing by the bank authorized signatories during absence of Accountant.

Compliances (Tax & Audit)

• Provision of information and documents required to the external/internal auditors.
• Preparation for Tax computation for Tax Estimation.
• Ensure Tax Computation is properly checked before submitting for Tax Return filing for companies account under her charge.
• Ensure completeness of documentation for statutory compliances, eg Taxes and Audits.

Others

• Assisting the GM/Manager in other designated or non-routine tasks.
• Provide WSM budget preparation input.
• The position may also assist in other functions in WSM like vessel accounting.
• Have security routines to ensure all financial data is backed-up electronically & paper based data.

Accountabilities

• Timely preparation of reports.
• Timely payment to suppliers, vendors, service providers & employees.
• Safe custody of Original Vouchers, Invoices etc.
• Data back-up of Electronic financial data.
• Confidentiality of official data & information.
• Company governance and compliance requirement.

Qualifications Mandatory requirements

• Higher education with Business Administration/Finance/Economics.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience.
• Ability to work on own initiative and in a team.
• Good command of written and spoken English language.
• Good communicative and co-operative skills.

Additional preferences

• Systematic and accurate nature.
• Good IT/Computer knowledge and skills, especially office and MS Excel.

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About Us

Founded in Norway in 1861, Wilhelmsen is now a comprehensive global maritime group providing essential products and services to the merchant fleet, along with supplying crew and technical management to the largest and most complex vessels ever to sail. Committed to shaping the maritime industry, we also seek to develop new opportunities and collaborations in renewables, zero-emission shipping, and marine digitalisation. Supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace, with thousands of colleagues across more than 60 countries, we take innovation, sustainability and unparalleled customer experiences one step further. #J-18808-Ljbffr