Assistant Accountant

We have an exciting dayshift, Manila-based opportunity available for an Assistant Accountant. Work from home or office-based – you choose!

When you join Yempo, you’ll receive the following fantastic benefits:
• Highly competitive salary – paid weekly!
• HMO enrollment on commencement
• Additional HMO dependents added each year of service
• 20 vacation days per year; 7 sick days
• Annual performance bonuses and incentives
• Annual salary reviews and increases
• Free cooked rice, snacks and hot drinks
• Company polo shirts provided
• Fantastic, bright and cheerful open-plan work environment
• Prestigious clients and highly professional and friendly co-workers

Our Client

In this position, you will be assigned to our Western Australia-based client, a broad-line business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) distributor of industrial, maintenance, repair, operating ‘MRO’, safety & workplace supplies and other related products and services.
They provide supplies and solutions for every industry through its portfolio of distribution businesses that extends across the end-to-end supply chain covering Business, Trade, Retail, Service & Specialist Wholesale.

The Role

The Assistant Accountant will be reporting to the Management Accountant, supporting the day-to-day accounting functions. At the same time, provide support to the Financial Controller and Management Accountant in all their responsibilities and also support the accounts team.

Your Responsibilities

• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly financial reports and analyses, including sales and expense reporting, cost control, profit margin analysis, freight, inventory management.
• Preparing month end GL reconciliations (P&L and Balance Sheet) and reports for review by Management Accountant.
• Assist with daily-weekly cash flow reporting and forecasting, including bank reconciliations.
• Assist with setup and maintaining budgets, variance and forecast reporting.
• Assist with preparation of monthly and quarterly business activity statements.
• Responding to financial enquiries by gathering and interpreting data.
• Assist with maintenance and management of financial accounting IT processes and document management.
• Reconciliation of inter-company accounts.
• Fixed asset register maintenance.
• Support the Finance Team in the day-to-day financial reporting operations (bank reconciliations, payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable functions).
• Support the business with accounting queries.
• Support the provision of reports and analysis to operational business departments and branches.
• Other ad-hoc projects and tasks.
• Assisting the Financial Controller and Management Accountant:
-Ad-hoc analysis including ‘deep dives’ into the business – transparency and financial relevance.
-Working closely with management to share reports and analysis findings.
-Assist in preparing year-end accounts and statutory accounts.
-Liaising with financial institutions.
-Reviewing and identifying outstanding debtors/creditors and recommending any necessary action to be taken.

Your Background
• At least 3-4 years experience in Accounts receivable and payables.
• Degree in Business or Commerce or equivalent.
• Exposure to processing of general journals.
• Advanced in Microsoft office suite – Excel, Word, Outlook and Power Point
• Relevant experience with using Sage or similar; with MYOB AccountRight is an advantage
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Working knowledge of accounts receivables and accounts payables operating procedures.
• Strong knowledge & experience of working capital management and daily cash flow management.
• Firm grasp of financial principles.
• Exceptional organizational and analytical skills.
• CA/CPA Qualified or working towards.

Disclaimer for salary ranges. Yempo provides an indicative range of salary that we deem relevant for the advertised role. This may be adjusted for the skills and experience of the selected candidate.