Accounting Officer

Job Summary

The Accounting Officer serves as a first-line supervisor responsible for overseeing the performance and conduct of junior team members. This role was established to ensure high standards in people management and to deliver quality client service within the Client Services Department.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy or any related Accounting field
• At least five (5) years of relevant work experience, including a minimum of two (2) years in a supervisory capacity
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license is an advantage
• Proficiency in accounting software, preferably QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, and Bill.com
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and Google Sheets

Required Skills

• Strong leadership and people management abilities
• Solid understanding of accounting principles and proper recording of financial and regulatory transactions
• Thorough knowledge of general ledger accounts and chart of accounts
• Extensive experience in core accounting functions, including:
• Bank reconciliations
• Accounts receivable and accounts payable monitoring
• Bookkeeping
• Preparation of financial statements and supporting schedules
• Audit support
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion
• Capacity to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong computer and internet proficiency
• Sound decision-making and problem-solving skills

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensures understanding of the scope of work based on the Client Arrangement Letter.
• Assists in the successful implementation of processes migrated from the client to MontPac.
• Participates in on-boarding of new clients, migration of accounting records and transition of accounting responsibilities.
• Assists and guides associates in regular accounting functions such as bank reconciliation accounts receivable and accounts payable monitoring and bookkeeping functions.
• Take ownership/accountability of client accounts by ensuring that the following functions are handled cautiously and in a timely manner and timely coordinating reports, recommendations, feedback, etc., to the Senior Accounting Officer, Team Leader and higher management, as appropriate.
• Financial statement analysis
• Apply accounting and system knowledge to complex and unusual accounting transactions and issues
• Ability to act as the Client’s Controller in raising red flag issues
• Understand the Client’s complex business and peculiar needs in recommending solutions to issues.
• Identification and proposal of process improvements.
• Handles complex, non-routine and technical accounting tasks beyond the associates’ knowledge and skill level.
• Develops and manages a process of ensuring quality of reviewed accounting and document management processes performed by the Document Management Team.
• Develops and manages a process of ensuring that transaction processing and review are performed accurately and in a timely manner.
• Adheres to and strictly complies with the Company’s operational control guidelines (e.g. MontPac way, MontPac Reporting Standards).
• Ensures proper and timely communication with clients including follow-ups of client deliverables (e.g. e-mails, conference calls, etc.).
• Identifies and communicates issues and exceptions with the management team and other team members, and recommends/proposes appropriate action plans to address the issues and prevent recurrence of errors, if any.
• Coordinates with Team Leader and other team members in order to properly manage workload distribution.
• Prepares detailed process documentation and facilitates transfer of information as well as transition of processes to new team members.
• Disseminates knowledge acquired and best practices noted to all personnel to enhance productivity and efficiency (e.g. tax/payroll filings for US and Local Authorities, applications of online user ID for vendors and customers).
• Performs the preparation of client time budgets and has an ability to explain significant variances, fluctuations and monitors client profitability
• Identifies gaps, develops recommendations, management initiatives and solutions in order to help management assess client service experience and improve client satisfaction and loyalty.
• Performs other tasks assigned by the management through trust and confidence.

Leadership:

People Management

• Introduces MontPac and its purpose to team members for better understanding of the business.
• Initiates and develops the learn, grow and have fun culture of MontPac to ensure sense of belonging within the team and the organization.
• Advocates for the MontPac Core Values to ensure alignment within the team and the organization.
• Guides subordinates in adhering to company policies, procedures and practices.
• Makes recommendation for hiring, firing and promotion of subordinates.

Performance Management

• Trains, coaches and mentors subordinates whenever necessary, to ensure quality of
• performance.
• Reviews subordinates’ performance periodically and makes necessary recommendations in terms of salary increase and promotion.

Work Set-up

• Hybrid (2x a month WFO)

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Company Christmas gift
• Company events
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Opportunities for promotion
• Paid training
• Pay raise
• Promotion to permanent employee
• Transportation service provided
• Work from home