Finance Manager-General Accounting
Ensure effective accounting, risk management and team leadership in finance operations
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Overview
Ensure effective accounting, risk management and team leadership in finance operations
You have:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in accounting or finance.
- Proficiency in financial reporting software, preferably Sun Systems.
- Strong understanding of financial compliance and risk management principles.
- Ability to coordinate and manage a finance team effectively.
- Experience in preparing and posting financial reports and analysis.
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Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)Job Description:
General Accounting, Reporting & Compliances
- Ensure comprehensive financial systems in all WVTL office locations (Dili and AP’s) are established and maintained in order to provide appropriate levels of security and controls over the organization's resources and operations.
- Maintain the cash book and ledger using Sun Systems, extract monthly financial statement.
- Update cash monitoring and ensure sufficient cash is allocated for payments including applicable target low
- Coordinate all banking related matters assigned and authorized by the Finance & Admin Manager
- Coordinate all Cash Disbursement Vouchers, Deposit Vouchers, General Journal Vouchers and Petty Cash Vouchers to be accurate and complete for National office operations. Conduct regular analysis, reconciliation and proper closing of accounts.
- Prepare and reconcile entries from SSC-R2R & Global Center
- Bank reconciliation confirmation with SSC-R2R
- Monitor staff advances to ensure timely settlement on system.
- Perform Month end and year end closing procedures on a timely basis
- Preparation and Posting of FFR reports
- Perform transaction posting on a daily basis.
- Ensure tax remittances, reporting and other statutory compliances are performed in a timely manner
- Prepare relevant financial updates for the monthly cover memo
- Project start up and closing
- Perform financial review and approval to payment request
Risk Management
- Conduct daily Petty Cash Count and post audit for Dili Office.
- Ensure that Petty Cash Count and post audit is regularly performed in the AP offices
- Follow through on the resolution of financial incident reports
- Contribute to Finance & Admin Manager for ICSAT & Risk register
- Participate and contribute to Audit meetings and assessment activities
- Contribute to audit progress report
- Conduct field validation to assess audit resolutions and internal control health check of APs
Team Leadership, Capacity building & Strategic Networking
- Actively support and live out work life balance, healthy lifestyle and spiritual nurture
- Contribute to the Finance & SCM orientation materials for new staff
- Ensure ACTs Training is conducted regularly to Dili and AP staff
- Ensure Finance policy review is conducted with teams (Dili and AP teams)
- Manage team performance and direct reports and coordination with other finance teams to accomplish of team goals and objectives
- Ensure that direct reports regularly receive the relevant and updated skills development for them to effectively perform their job. Provide support in developing capacity of finance staff on Sun6/ PMQA, SharePoint and other related financial reporting system
- Engagement and participation to organizational activities, prayer time, devo, DOP
Continuous improvement
- Initiate or contribute to the continuous improvements set for the office and conduct regular process review to ensure business continuity, cost reduction and ease of doing work for the team and business partners
- Initiate or contribute to process improvement, cost reduction and other global/ regional projects and initiatives in the areas of financial reporting and analysis (Horizon, GEMS Concur, Sun systems upgrade, etc.)
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe a time when you had to implement a new financial process? | This question assesses your experience in process improvement and adaptation to change. | Provide a specific example, detailing your role, the challenges faced, and the outcome. |
| How do you ensure compliance with financial regulations in your work? | The interviewer wants to know about your knowledge of compliance and regulatory frameworks. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Describe a situation where you had to lead a team under pressure. What was your approach? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What methods do you use to monitor and control cash flow? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you handle discrepancies found during financial audits? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
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