Finance Accountant

Location:                                                        Jakarta, Indonesia

Legal Entity:                                                  AVEVA Software Indonesia (to be incorporated and name to be agreed)

Reports to:                                                    Senior Manager Finance, Southeast Asia (Based in Malaysia)

Role summary

The Accountant is part of a small in-house financial team responsible for the Indonesia Market in Southeast Asia sub-region(“SEA”).  As AVEVA’s Accountant, your core responsibilities are to support SEA Senior Manager Finance in entity controllership, accounting, tax, compliance, treasury, reporting, and internal control including taking lead in assigned scope and/or with revenue controller and other functions.  The role has a responsibility for managing the outputs from a shared service centre which supports the entity. The Accountant is also required to support ad-hoc projects, analysis and reporting as well as occasional back-up support for other SEA finance team.

Financial controllership and accounting responsibilities

• Manage and interface with the shared service centre, taking full responsibility for the deliverables in accordance with the reporting timetable

• Review and approval of journals and reconciliations

• Review and approval of purchase requisitions

• Review the revenues and costs in accordance with the master chart of accounts and dimensional structure

• Review and approval of intercompany and related party transactions, ensuring all intercompany transactions are recorded and netted off in accordance with group instructions

• Analytical review of balance sheet and P&L and providing analysis as required to Group

• Review of the reporting pack to be submitted in the consolidation tool

• Ensure compliance with Group accounting policies and review of significant accounting judgements.

• Responsible for cost analysis and support in cost control activities

• Resolving escalated queries from vendors/ employees.

• Act as the key finance point of contact for Indonesia.

Treasury

• Reviews of cashflow and submit funding requests to Group Treasury as required

• Liaison with banks on issue resolutions as required.

• Support optimal working capital management.

• Maintain signing and online banking mandate

• Arrange bank and parent company guarantees through Group Treasury

• Manage administration of corporate cards

Compliance

• Ensure compliance with the Group’s internal control framework, enhancing those controls where necessary and maintaining supporting documents to demonstrate that sufficient controls are in place.

• Support internal audit and responding to requests.

• Support with other processes such as record keeping, data and document retrieval

• Liaison with tax consultants.

• Support and liaison with Corporate Secretariat function on corporate secretarial and compliance matters

 Audit

• Lead and ensure completion of statutory audit and/or internal audit 

• Preparation of entity financial statement for statutory audit

• Liaison with Auditors to clear queries and/or requests of information.

Taxation

• Lead/support tax matters including GST / VAT/ Services tax or other returns, corporate tax return and submissions, timely response to queries from tax authorities working with the appointed local tax advisor

• Lead/support Indirect tax compliance 

• Compliance on withholding tax and employment tax (work together with HR)

• Liaison with Tax Consultant/tax authorities to clear queries and/or requests of information.

• Support preparation of corporate tax and deferred tax provisions under IFRS for group reporting and under local GAAP for the entity financial statements

• Advise Group Tax of risks and audit

Entity setup

• Help incorporate the entity in Indonesia.

• Help set up bank account, take all the tax registrations and business licenses in Indonesia

Other duties

• Any other tasks as assigned by the line manager/management

Requirements

• Minimum 5 to 8 years working experiences in similar role preferably from MNC environment

• Accounting degree or professional accounting qualification or equivalent

• Strong knowledge of financial terms, concepts, and accounting principles

• Familiar with Indonesian taxes (direct and indirect) and Indonesia’s general regulatory environment

• Able to deal with multiple systems and stakeholders with ability to prioritize tasks to meet deadlines

• Experience in managing and interfacing with the shared service centre

• Positive attitude, adaptable to change, able to handle ambiguity

• Good experience in month-end/year-end closing process

• Working knowledge of Oracle Fusion, TM1, FDW, Power BI, SalesForce etc. is an added advantage

• Self-starter – able to work remotely effectively with guidance

Important Working Relationships

• Local Controller (s) of Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand

• Revenue Controller

• Shared Services Team

• Procurement Team

• FP&A Team

• Regional Process Owners

• Commercial Operations Team

• Corporate Secretariat