Job Tite: Accounts Officer (a finance / accounting resource to support our Sydney-based finance team).
Experience: 3-5 Years
Location: Hyderabad
EXPERIENCE
- 3–5 years’ experience in an accounts officer, accounts payable/receivable or general accounting role, preferably supporting an Australian, US or other international business from an offshore shared-services environment.
- Practical experience with high-volume transaction processing, debtor collections, supplier statement reconciliations, payment preparation, daily bank reconciliations, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, month-end close and inventory-related accounting.
- Hands-on experience with NetSuite or a comparable ERP system, online banking portals and Microsoft Excel is required.
- Working remotely with overseas finance, logistics and operational teams, following documented controls, meeting Australian business-hour deadlines and communicating clearly in English is essential.
- Exposure to Australian GST and BAS processes, trade finance facilities, foreign-currency transactions and logistics or food-import businesses would be advantageous.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Receivables
- Managing outstanding debtors, including liaising with other staff members to ensure all debtors are actively reviewed and chased when required.
- Preparing and issuing customer statements on a regular basis.
- Ensuring customer invoices are raised and issued in a timely manner.
Payables
- Reconciling supplier statements to Netsuite.
- Ensuring all trade finance facilities (receipts and repayments) are updated in Netsuite on a timely basis, ensuring customer totals are accurate.
- Setting up supplier payments in Netsuite and the banking portal and organising approvals.
Treasury
- Reconciling all bank accounts daily.
Accounting
- Entering data, including bill entry, sales invoice entry, banking entry, supplier payments, bank receipts and payments.
- Becoming familiar with the Netsuite accounting system.
- Reviewing inventory regularly during the month to ensure all costs are invoiced, and any necessary adjustments made.
- Assisting with month end close tasks e.g. journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations.
Other
- Helping to ensure that Netsuite is updated for any necessary changes made in the logistics system (i.e. products, customers, manufacturers etc.)
- Liaising with the Logistics staff on financial related issues, particularly around purchases, sales, debtors, inventory, and related matters.
- Assisting with data entry in the Agile system as may be required from time to time.
- Reviewing load margin reports and progressing towards ownership of the process.
- Supporting the accurate and timely lodgement of Business Activity Statements (BAS).
- Coordinating, processing and recording weekly bank finance drawdown requests as required.
- Other ad hoc tasks that may reasonably be required from time to time.
