General Accountant ( MUST Know Sap-A1)

A. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES
1. Monitor Receivables
- Keep record of various credit limits, credit periods, sales discount and rebates given to the customers
- Monitor outstanding position of distributors on day to day basis and prepare reports on daily/ weekly and monthly basis. Obtain customer balance confirmation via email on quarterly basis (10% of top vendors holding more that 80% of receivables value)
- Monitor distributor/customer balance and inform the Sales Manager (B2C) and respective Sales department on a regular basis to follow up for collections.
2. Perform Customer VAT Invoicing Activities
- Generate VAT invoices in the defined template based on Sales order receipts from the distributor and other customers
- Prepare documentation for raising customer invoice as per regulatory requirements
- Store other version of invoice & validate the numbering convention of the billing documents
3. Period End Close
- Prepare base information and working for accounting of revenue items including provisional entries
- Prepare key financial reports as a part of month end close process
- Assist the Finance Controller in closing the books of accounts during month end and year end
- Perform monthly reconciliation of all Related Accounts/ sub ledger accounts (including clearing account) to Finance Controller and investigate any reconciled item in a timely manner
- Perform Bank Reconciliations of the payments received and the payments recorded & identify adjustments
- Process and reconcile sales discount and sales rebate given to distributors/customers based on applicable promotional schemes
- Perform reconciliation of all the GL codes handled by him/her on monthly basis
4. Prepare Tax Returns and Computation
- Prepare both the direct and indirect taxes computations and returns before submission to Finance Controller for reviewing
- Review CIT computation and returns and liaison with Tax consultant for reviewing before send to Finance Controller for approval
5. Support tax audit and closure of tax accounts -work as secondary liaison for tax auditors
- Prepare tax dispute document as per the request
- Prepare responses for any clarifications sought by statutory authorities
6. Facilitate Review of Audits
- Facilitate review of Statutory and External Audits
- Upload adjustment journals in ERP (SAP) for agreed audit differences
- Support external auditors in conducting process reviews and external control checks
- Prepare information in line with audit instructions
- Assist the Finance Controller with necessary information on identified audit differences.
7. Additional Responsibilities
- Respond to billing related inquiries / discrepancies with the distributors/ customers
- Liaison with internal and external auditors during financial/process audits
- Ensure timeliness and accuracy of organization's accounting policies and financial procedures
- Ad hoc assignment by superiors