GL Accounting Officer

Job Purpose

Month-End and General Ledger

• Prepare journal entries, accruals, provisions, prepayments, reclassifications, and period-end adjustments.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities.
• Maintain transaction documentation and support the integrity of general ledger balances.
• Complete assigned close tasks on time and escalate issues affecting reporting deadlines.

Reconciliations and Intercompany

• Prepare general ledger reconciliations and balance sheet schedules.
• Perform monthly bank reconciliations and investigate unreconciled items.
• Support intercompany reconciliations, confirmations, matching differences, and elimination activities.
• Monitor reconciling items and follow up for timely resolution.

Assets, Leases, and Reporting

• Process fixed asset additions, disposals, transfers, depreciation runs, and related accounting activities.
• Maintain lease accounting schedules for right-of-use assets and lease liabilities.
• Prepare management reporting, financial reporting, audit, and FCCS schedules.
• Support variance analysis and group reporting submissions.

Controls and Systems

• Perform control activities for journals, reconciliations, cut-off, intercompany accounting, and general ledger governance.
• Support internal, external, statutory, and financial control audits.
• Perform VAT reconciliations and support tax reporting when required.
• Maintain general ledger transactions, account mappings, cost centres, profit centres, company codes, and master data in SAP S/4HANA.
• Support finance transformation, automation, system enhancements, and reporting improvements.

Collaboration and Improvement

• Collaborate with Finance, FP&A, AP, AR, Payroll, Tax, auditors, and operational teams.
• Contribute to process standardization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Maintain working papers and process records for knowledge retention and audit readiness.
• Support KPI monitoring for close efficiency, reconciliation ageing, journal quality, and operational performance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Professional accounting qualification or progress toward certification is advantageous.
• 5–7 years of relevant general ledger, financial reporting, close, reconciliation, intercompany, or record-to-report experience.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Understanding of record-to-report processes and awareness of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay impacts.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA, Asset Accounting, and financial reporting systems.
• Strong Microsoft Excel, analytical, and reporting skills.

Skills and Competencies

• Demonstrate sound general ledger accounting, reconciliation, financial reporting, and governance knowledge.
• Use SAP S/4HANA, Asset Accounting, and financial systems to support data integrity and reporting accuracy.
• Demonstrate attention to detail, accountability, and ownership of assigned accounting activities.
• Build effective working relationships with finance teams, auditors, and business stakeholders.
• Support improvements to reporting quality, process efficiency, and internal controls.