Assistant Finance Manager at Linkark Consultants Ltd

• The Assistant Manager Finance supports the Finance Manager in overseeing the financial activities of the company.
• The successful candidate will perform duties involving financial planning, analysis, and reporting, ensuring compliance with financial regulations, and providing strategic recommendations to drive the company’s financial performance.
• The Assistant Finance Manager will also assist with the closing of books and ensuring proper financial reporting and tax management. May participate in tax audit preparation for ad-hoc projects.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Respond to all requests for information from customers including sending monthly statements, copies of invoices or credit notes as needed
• Download and email accounts statements for those customers that have requested electronic data
• Identify, review and resolve any disputed items for assigned customers
• Assist in preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements
• Analyze financial data and provide insights to support decision-making
• Prepare variance analysis reports comparing actual performance to budget and forecast
• Support the development of annual budgets and financial forecasts
• Monitor and report on budget performance, identifying areas of improvement.
• Assist in the preparation of long-term financial plans.
• Complete regular offset report to reconcile past due invoices perform offset in Global ERP system
• Prepare reporting package to the parent company
• Perform ad hoc reporting and project
• Perform internal accounting control assessment
• Responsible for assisting with monthly closing and year-end audit
• Perform GL and financial statement analysis
• Manage long-term overdue accounts
• Ensure compliance with company policy and procedure
• Regularly review aged trial balance to determine customers that have past-due invoices and contact them for payment status.
• Determine if payment has been sent and if not, negotiate the quickest possible payment of past-due account
• Recommend legal action or termination of service where payment is not forthcoming
• Call customers who are over the credit limit and negotiate a pay-down of their outstanding balances.

Key Competencies & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• Certified public accountant (CPA, K) or ACCA qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years of finance and accounting experience, including finance, accounting, audit, and analysis (including gathering, evaluating, presenting, and reporting financial information to management and external stakeholders)
• Solid experience in coordinating audit activities and managing reporting, budget development and analysis, accounts payable and receivable, Insurance Policy & Procedure general ledger, payroll, and accounting.
• Proficiency with financial reporting systems and excellent advanced Excel skills, PowerPoint, Outlook and ability to learn other softwares
• Entrepreneurial drive and proven ability to take ownership and lead the team’s combined learning.
• Collaborative, data-oriented approach to problem-solving
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure, meet deadlines
• Strong attention to detail is required Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and ability to learn other software
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• High Sense of Security/Confidentiality
• Highly motivated self-starter