Philippines Job Openings

Abbott Laboratories

General Ledger Accountant - Global Business Services

Taguig

FULL TIME

September 6, 2024

Point-of-care diagnostics is a growing and dynamic industry helping to improve clinical and economic outcomes globally. Abbott brings you a variety of expert view points on new innovations, insights, and impacts that are shaping the future of diagnostics.

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

This position GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTANT is within our GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES – MANILA located at 11F Five Neo Building Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Philippines. This role is responsible for managing controllership activities associated with period end close and Finance reporting including monthly, quarterly and annual close process and also regulatory reporting. A few critical activities performed by a GL Accountant include General Accounting, Statutory & Financial Reporting and Intercompany Processing & Reconciliations.

Duties and Responsibilities

Assist in the preparation of Monthly Financial Reports, Annual Financial Statements and any other internal or external reports required, ensuring that they are completed in a timely, accurate and efficient manner.
Assist in transition of GL functions both into and out of the GBS.
Develop new and streamline existing processes and systems as required to ensure more efficient delivery of value add information to both internal and external stakeholders.
Be an effective team player who will drive efficiency and continuous improvement throughout the department.
Essential Functions:
- Preparation of monthly financial reports & trend reports, ensuring they are completed in a timely, accurate and efficient manner:
- Preparation, analysis and posting of General Ledger journal entries
- Preparation of accurate and timely GL account reconciliation at month end
- Calculation, posting and analysis of monthly accruals and prepayments, ensuring that all items are accurately captured;
- Review and reconciliation of inter-company accounts, involving communication with other Abbott business locations worldwide;
- Preparation of multi-currency bank reconciliations;
- Preparation of variance analysis and standard cost updates as required;
- Provide cost information to management and other departments as required.
- Support in transition of functions to other locations into the GBS.
- Preparation and submission of monthly and quarterly corporate packages

Other Duties:
Collaboration with external audit staff for periodic yearend review procedures and local statutory audits as required.
Provision of input on local finance policies and procedures ensuring ongoing compliance for all accounting and finance operations.
Participation in ongoing policy and control environment development to ensure compliance with applicable internal control regulations.
Enhancement of existing processes and development of new ones to ensure the most efficient completion of duties.

Core Competencies

Ability to multitask
Excellent attention to details and proven organizational skills
Functional and technical skills
Decision Quality
Problem solving
Dealing with ambiguity
Priority setting and time management
Process management
Action oriented/highly motivated
Drive for results
Critical thinking and continuous improvement mindset
Customer focus

Skills and Qualifications

Bachelor Degree in Accounting; CPA is a plus.
Accounting Qualification – ACA, ACCA, CIMA preferred but not required
3 - 5 years relevant experience – preferably with Shared Service Centre and multinational corporation background
SAP/JDE/GP or other major ERP Systems experience is desirable
Clear and demonstrated understanding of US_GAAP with ability to apply technical knowledge in a practical manner to day to day operations.
Strong English written and verbal communication skills are essential
Able to work alone to understand and summarize financial data into high quality, accurate and usable summaries
Strong computer skills especially MS Office
Team-oriented, self-starter with the flexibility to work in fast-faced environment with minimal supervision

New Job Alerts

STEPBeyd Strategic Global Solutions

Sales Engineer - Steam PU - Heating Domain

Manila

FULL TIME

September 23, 2024

View Job Description

MetHealth Philippines

Allied Healthcare Professional | Pure Non-Voice

Iloilo

FULL TIME

September 23, 2024

View Job Description

BSA Solutions Inc.

Mid-Level PHP/Laravel Developer (For Cebu City - Onsite Set-up)

FULL TIME

September 23, 2024

View Job Description

Arch Global Services (Philippines) Inc.

2024-7337_Systems Engineer Level III (Platform Engineering - Common Platform)

Quezon City

FULL TIME

September 23, 2024

View Job Description

First Reliance Checkers and Surveyors Corporation

Sr. Project Engineer | Bulacan

Bulacan

FULL TIME

September 23, 2024

View Job Description

Looking for similar job?

PRAXXYS Solutions, Inc.

HR Generalist (Onsite - Quezon City)

Bulacan

FULL TIME

September 23, 2024

View Job Description