Accountant: Banking

Purpose:

This role will support the banking team with processing and reporting of ecommerce and banking ledgers.

Reporting to Banking Team Leader (Manila) and Finance Manager (Melbourne) and assisting the retail arm of the business, you will provide bookkeeping, financial, administrative and clerical services to ensure effective, efficient and accurate data entry and processing across Spotlight, Anaconda and Harris Scarfe Brands.

The role is responsible for

• Reconciliation of all operating bank accounts

• Reconciliation of Cash Ledgers

• Reconciliation of Point of Sales Banking ledgers

• Reconciliation of Buy Now Pay Later payments

• Perform postprocessing and clearing of all cash open items

• Investigate unidentified and missing cash transactions

• Communicate any Point-of-Sales (POS) issues with store managers and Risk Managers

• Collaborate with other relevant teams for the resolution of material and aged cash open items

• Liaising with Bank and Cash collection Agencies

• Assisting stores and internal stakeholders with banking queries

• Assist accounting team with month end reconciliations and ad hoc tasks as necessary

• Providing support to stores and stakeholders on banking tasks

• Assisting with collation of year-end audit queries documentation

• Processing month-end and year-end work papers and journals for ecommerce

• Assisting retail brands with Buy Now pay later and ecommerce payment gateways

• Assisting with Process Improvements initiatives within the Banking team

• Prepare other reports and cater to data requests as needed

The ideal candidate will possess the following professional skills and personal characteristics:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy, Banking or Finance

• Minimum of 5 years work experience with the same role

• Candidates with retail industry background is an advantage

• Experience in using SAP and any Point-of-Sales (POS) System including its integration with online business banking portals

• Knowledge in using and reconciling Buy Now Pay Later merchants (Paypal, Afterpay, ZIP, and Braintree)

• Has background in using Blackline for Balance Sheet Accounts Reconciliation

• Advanced skills with Microsoft Office suite

• Experience with preparing high volume banking reconciliations

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Strong attention to detail and ability to self-assess

• Strong desire to manage and organise your time and tasks efficiently

• Have down to earth, adaptable, can-do attitude

• Be an independent, proactive personality - you enjoy taking ownership of your role and contributing to the long-term growth of the business in which you work.

• Must be willing to work onsite in BGC Taguig City