Key Responsibilities
Core Accounting & Compliance
- Oversee day-to-day accounting activities, including GL postings, reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close.
- Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, tax filings, and audit requests.
- Support accurate preparation of financial statements in line with accounting standards.
- Monitor AP/AR ledgers, aging, and payment schedules to maintain healthy cash flow.
Process Improvement & Digitization
- Assess current finance processes (costing, inventory, AP/AR, month-end close) and identify efficiency gaps.
- Introduce automation and system enhancements to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and shorten cycle times.
- Support M&A integration and post-acquisition harmonization
- Standardize procedures across the KA Group, where applicable.
ERP & Systems Enablement
- Support ERP/accounting system upgrades, replacements, or cloud migration.
- Align finance systems with production and inventory processes (WIP tracking, finished goods costing).
- Act as the link between Finance, IT, and external vendors during system projects.
Costing & Operational Finance
- Drive costing analysis, including standard vs.
actual, variance tracking, and margin analysis by product line.
- Strengthen inventory accuracy and valuation processes in partnership with operations.
Financial Visibility & Reporting
- Enhance management reporting and dashboards covering cash flow, working capital, and key KPIs (DSO, DPO, DIO).
- Enable faster and more insightful month-end reporting.
Change Management & Training
- Partner with finance and operations teams to secure adoption of new processes and systems.
- Provide training and guidance to embed changes into day-to-day operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; professional certification (e.g., CPA, ACCA, CMA) preferred.
- 5+ years of progressive finance/accounting experience, ideally with exposure to manufacturing costing and inventory processes.
- Hands-on experience with ERP/accounting systems; involvement in system upgrades or cloud migration is a strong advantage.
- Proficiency in Excel (advanced formulas, pivot tables, automation); exposure to BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) is a plus.
- Strong understanding of core accounting processes (GL, AP/AR, reconciliations, month-end close) and statutory compliance.
- Process improvement mindset; experience with automation, Lean/Kaizen, or RPA tools preferred.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; able to collaborate across Finance, Operations, IT, and external vendors.
- Self-starter, adaptable, and comfortable balancing hands-on accounting with transformation projects in a lean SME setup.