Duties and responsibilities:
Commercial management
- Work closely with Business partners to follow up with outstanding clients-related issues, e.g., aged debtors, revenue recognition, outstanding cost estimates, and resolving clients' issue but with a win-win solution/approach to both Agency & clients.
- Liaise with Client Service team; ensure system billings and purchase orders are generated timely.
- Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, whether within the Finance department or in other functions.
- Good team player with the right attitude to learn and committed to ensuring deadlines are met.
- Assist in preparing audit schedules and other ah-hoc assignments.
- Assist in management reports.
GL and AR functions
- Assist client facing team in managing regular revenue and WIP (work-in progress) reporting.
- Analyzing monthly balance sheet items such as WIP, accruals, pre-billings, prepayments, etc.
- Preparation of journals and keeping proper supporting documentation and filing in preparation for audit.
- Reconciliation of actual time spent against contractual fee.
- Assist in preparing audit schedules and other ah-hoc assignments.
- Assist in monthly management reports, quarterly SOX reporting and budget reports.
- Review Debtors Ageing Report, follow up with Shared Service Team or client on overdue invoices to ensure timely collection of debts.
- Ensure that Net Working Capital and Aged Debtors ratios are kept within Group acceptable levels.
- Liaison with Shared Service team when answering queries from client facing and/or project management team regarding settlement of supplier accounts/ invoices.
- Guiding client facing and/or project management team to obtain appropriate documentations required in setting up vendor account in financial systems.