Job Summary

Senior customer master data and cash management accountant is in charge of updating, monitoring, managing, and analyzing customer master data and the cash flow of the Company. He is responsible for ensuring that the customer data is properly maintained to help sales operations and prepare cashflow forecast as per regularly basis to maximize deposit interest and no cash shortfall for operating activities (supplier payment, employee payment and other payments).

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain all aspects of account opening & closing, authorized signatories updated timely and complying with the company policy and law as per legal guidance.
• Executes and follow-up with approver daily cash processes such as internal bank transfers, deposit termination, and foreign exchange purchase transactions to ensure the transactions completely done within the day.
• Closely collaborate with AR/AP team and relevant department for cashflow forecast to ensure collections, funds, and payables are optimized and cash is available for all planned payments.
• Prepare all reports (Daily cash file update to ensure all cash transactions to be posted timely in SAP, Cash balance report,  customer master data report, manual invoices report, etc. ) as per Swire Group and company requirements
• Create customers in SAP based on information provided by the sales team and relevant functions, reviewing the information to ensure the completeness and accuracy of customer master data based on the business requirement/process
• Maintain customer master data to ensure the accuracy / timely update through working with relevant functions as per regular basis; analyze customer data to take effective control measures and promptly prevent possible risks to ensure the integrity of customer master data.
• Coordinate with the project team (sales admin / IT team / sales business analyst / an other) to successfully / timely roll out the automation project related to customer master data.
• Manually issue invoice replacement /invoice adjustment if there are wrong price or customer information or others matters on the invoices; manually issue invoices to supplier, etc.
• Maintain all aspects of account opening & closing, authorized signatories updated timely and complying with the company policy and law as per legal guidance.
• Executes and follow-up with approver daily cash processes such as internal bank transfers, deposit termination, and foreign exchange purchase transactions to ensure the transactions completely done within the day.
• Closely collaborate with AR/AP team and relevant department for cashflow forecast to ensure collections, funds, and payables are optimized and cash is available for all planned payments.
• Prepare all reports (Daily cash file update to ensure all cash transactions to be posted timely in SAP, Cash balance report,  customer master data report, manual invoices report, etc. ) as per Swire Group and company requirements
• Create customers in SAP based on information provided by the sales team and relevant functions, reviewing the information to ensure the completeness and accuracy of customer master data based on the business requirement/process
• Maintain customer master data to ensure the accuracy / timely update through working with relevant functions as per regular basis; analyze customer data to take effective control measures and promptly prevent possible risks to ensure the integrity of customer master data.
• Coordinate with the project team (sales admin / IT team / sales business analyst / an other) to successfully / timely roll out the automation project related to customer master data.
• Manually issue invoice replacement /invoice adjustment if there are wrong price or customer information or others matters on the invoices; manually issue invoices to supplier, etc.
• Provides data and supporting documents to the accounting team for journal entry preparation relating to cash management activity.
• Manual JV posting at month-end
• Other tasks assigned by line managers and finance management team
   

Requirements

• University/Bachelor’s Degree
• 3-5 years working in FMCG as general accountant
• Knowledge of IAS is an advantage
• Detailed oriented
• Excellent communication and organizational skills. 
• Compliant with the company's policies and procedures 
• Be able to actively discover new ways to do the job more efficiently.
• Analytical skills, interpersonal skill, digitalization mind-set
• Negotiation to develop collaborative relationships