Finance & Accounting Associate

Vero, a regional award-winning communications agency, is opening an opportunity for a Finance and Accounting Officer who wants to join a creative, collaborative, and progressive team focused on serving the best brands in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. 

The ideal candidate should be a detail-oriented team player with a passion for accounting and a desire to contribute to the company's strong financial procedures and performance. 

In return, Vero will provide a high-quality and rewarding professional experience focused on kindness, curiosity, and trust.    

Responsibilities 

• Work closely with the F&A Assistant Manager in managing day-to-day accounting operations, month-end closing, quarterly closing, and annual closing activities, including general ledger maintenance, balance sheet reconciliations and overhead cost allocation; 

• Prepare assets, liability, and capital account entries; 
• Handle day-to-day finance and accounting activities, such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, and the company's petty cash fund. 
  

• Collaborate with the F&A Assistant Manager and Finance Head in handling the following:

• • Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts; 

• • Internal and external and external audits; 

• • Regional planning and budgeting process; and  

• • Philippine tax regulations and any changes they may have. 

• Ensure the timely reporting and filing of all monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting and tax filing; 

• Support and facilitate internal and external audits, together with Head of Regional Finance and Audit Firm; 

• Maintain, verify, and organize finance-related documents, such as invoices and tax invoices, among others; 

• Produce timely management reports to help with business insights and recommendations to the management; 
• Collaborates with Finance team in implementing and processing local regularizations such as government-mandates reports, business permit renewals, SEC/GIS updates, Income Tax Annualization, BIR audits and related compliance requirements.

• Respond to inquiries from the management team (Country Manager/CFO/CEO), internal finance team, and other managers regarding financial matters and special reporting requests (if any)

Requirements 

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field 

• Advanced skill in computer programs (Microsoft Excel, Microsoft word, etc.); Proficiency in relevant accounting programs (such as QuickBooks, MYOB, or other accounting software useful in the Philippines) is an advantage 

• At least 2-4 years of experience in finance, accounting, or related roles 

• Strong interpersonal and time management skills, energetic, responsible, diligent, and independent 

• Ability to communicate in English 

About Vero 

Vero is an award-winning strategic communications consultancy, advising some of Southeast Asia’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations.   

B Corp certified across all its offices, aamnd a signatory of the Clean Creative pledge since 2022, Vero adopts a forward-thinking approach to public relations and marketing, striving to enact meaningful change for clients and society at large.   

Vero’s team of over 240 PR, social, digital, influence, and creative professionals in Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, and its partnership in Myanmar, brings unique perspectives to earned media, prioritizing digital technology, creative storytelling, and stakeholder engagement in championing stories of progress. This includes the newest units: Vero IQ, which digs deep for data-driven insights, Vero Xperience, dedicated to redefining brand events in the region and Vero Advocacy, a government-engagement focused strategic advisory.   

Listed among the Global Top 250 Agency Ranking by PRovoke Media and winner of numerous Southeast Asia Consultancy of the Year awards, including the 2024 Influencer Marketing Agency of the Year award from Campaign Asia, Vero designs integrated marketing and communications strategies that resonate within and across this vibrant region’s digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.  

Working at Vero 

You will be a member of a multicultural team of accounting and finance specialists spread across the region and brought together by their drive for efficient strategies and positive conversations. We take pride in creating deeply simulating flexible workplaces that are informal and inspiring.   

Your usual location for work will be the company's office in Manila. Your place of work may vary depending on the Company’s needs, including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, or other locations as instructed from time to time. Additional expenses incurred by you because of the Company directing that you work from a location other than your usual location, will be reimbursed by the Company. Standard working hours are flexible, Monday through Friday. This may vary depending on workload and client needs.   

Other benefits: 

• Unlimited Leave: Your allocated holiday time at Vero will be unlimited. We trust our people to use good judgment when given guidelines for making decisions about taking a holiday, and we know that our teams work better when they can rest and take a proper break from work. Our goal is that every team takes an average of 15 days (minimum!) per person a year.   
• Flexible Hybrid Office: Our team in the Philippines is moving to a hybrid office set up, where teams will spend only 1-2 days each week in the office.  During WFH days, employees can choose where they want to work on any given day, should it be from the office, from home, or from a coffee shop.
• International Travel: As much as possible, we push our teams to travel for events/client work. On any given year (non-pandemic, that is), manager-level team members have the opportunity to visit some of our other offices, attend industry events, and follow their clients if they handle regional projects.   

• Wellness Day off: 1 paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, and treat yourself to something nice.   

• Thought Leadership and training: We sponsor team members with training tools and resources, both internal and external, and we even incentivize employees to complete classes. Details of training programs and incentives will be shared upon your onboarding. This includes training and development investments organized by the company as well as specialized programs that our executives may come across and feel is needed for their development. For example, this could be a program organized by a group such as PR WEEK or PRCA, or a training program that focuses on business in general. Across the Vero group, we are seeking new and better ways to help people develop careers.   

• Health Insurance: The Company will provide private medical insurance as a benefit. The actual package and structure of the insurance may be determined by the Company at its sole discretion.   

• Mental Health Budget: We understand the importance of access to proper mental health support; all our employees can access counseling. The access to this benefit and the content of your therapy are 100% confidential; only you and your therapist know what is being said during sessions, of course.