Senior Accounts Officer, Accounts Receivable (1 Year Contract)

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Senior Accountant / Accountant, Finance Shared Services (FSS), this role will support business-as-usual (BAU) Accounts Receivable (AR) operations during temporary staff absences, ensuring timely and accurate processing, recording, reconciliation, and follow-up of collections, revenue, and related AR activities within the FSS environment. The role may subsequently transition to support the upcoming ERP implementation to ensure operational continuity during project deployment.

Responsibilities

•    Support end-to-end Accounts Receivable operations, including customer invoicing, receipt posting, refunds, and late payment interest billing from source systems, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with company policies and procedures.
•    Perform receipting, reconciliations, and collections, including monitoring overdue accounts, trigger system reminder notices and Statements of Accounts (SOA), and resolving discrepancies, billing issues, and customer queries.
•    Support month-end closing, reporting, and audit activities, including journal postings, bank and clearing reconciliations, debtor aging analysis, high-volume fare report extraction and preparation of GST reporting files extracted from ERP systems, with data validated, analysed, and standardised using Power Query (PQ) and Excel-based tools.
•    Collaborate with internal and/or external stakeholders to resolve operational issues promptly, including follow-up on email enquiries, while supporting continuous process improvement, automation, and streamlining initiatives across finance workflows and reporting processes.
•    Support BAU operations and participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), data validation, system enhancement testing, and discussions with Public Transport Regulator & its representative, ensuring smooth implementation and operational readiness of finance systems and processes. 
•    Perform administrative duties, maintain timely reporting of operational activities, adhere to strict reporting and processing deadlines, and undertake other ad-hoc responsibilities assigned by the team lead or management from time to time. 

Qualifications & Work Experience

•    Diploma in Accountancy
•    Relevant working experience in a Finance Shared Services environment

Skills

Technical skills include:

•    Good working knowledge of SAP and Simplicity would be an advantage.
•    Good numerical and Excel skills, including Power Query, Power Automate, Power BI. 

Generic skills include:

•    Meticulous and detail-oriented, with a consistent track record of delivering accurate work and supporting process improvements.
•    Able to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments, work independently and collaboratively, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.