Plan International Indonesia Job Vacancies 2020
Treasury Accountant - Jakarta Based
Dimensions of the Role
Treasury Accountant responsible to provide efficient and effective support to the country relating with liquidity management for the country and program area ensuring payment to grant recipients, supplier and employees are proceed on a timely basis, prompt resolution of payment investigations, systems access to online banking platforms and maintaining temporary sub-delegations of authority.
Treasury Accountant provides permanent support to in-country Finance teams in order to improve overall transparency and accountability in YPII’s external financial reporting and maintain a system of policies and procedures that impose an adequate level of control over treasury activities.
Accountabilities
Cash Management
- Perform day-to-day responsibilities including bank reconciliations, payment runs, invoice settlement, direct debits, and cash collection.
- Check, verify, and reconcile bank deposits and bank payments.
- Ensure that sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements.
- Prepare cash flow forecasts, perform month-end close entries, and manage the processing of inter-company funding.
- Reconcile monthly paid data files between banks and books to create outstanding cheque lists.
- Maintain vendors’ banking information database up-to-date in SAP and banks and ensure the database is clean.
- Execute the monthly close process for all cash transactions and accounts.
- Perform opening and closing of cash daily.
- Confirm income receive and raise remittance advice to NOs and International/Local Donors.
- Prepare and communicate all previous day banking activity to other business units and PUs.
- Respond and resolve vendor problems, grievances and issues.
- In collaboration with Finance Controller, develop effective fund request mechanism and cash flow forecasting tools to ensure proper review was conducted before submitted the request to GH.
- Prepare Bank Target Balance report on a monthly basis.
- Reconcile 5 YPII bank accounts to the general ledger and prepare Bank Reconciliation report on a monthly basis.
- Review monthly IGF and funding budget produced by Grants Finance team and GH and coordinate movement of funds to CFM.
- Produce monthly cash flow statement.
- Check the month-end valuation and reconciliation of all derivatives.
- Year-end closing and consolidation and manage the year-end bank confirmation.
- Support CFM to maintain a banking relationship.
- Review and analyze bank service charges report.
- Analysis of exchange rates on FX transactions to ensure that pricing is in accordance with bank arrangements.
- Prepare foreign exchange analysis.
- Maintenance of all contractual documents for the YPII banking arrangement.
- Managing bank accounts, including update threshold & authority approval.
- Ensure that appropriate procedures are in place for the update of users who leave or change positions.
- Perform banking operations including wire, ACH, and intercompany transfers.
- Implement banking systems that reduce cash float and improved weekly cash availability.
- Reviews the preliminary and final payment registers for cheque, international wire, electronic fund transfer (EFT) and automated clearing house (ACH) payments;
- Principal signing officer for the review and transmission of payments for cheque, international wires and EFT-ACH payments and payroll;
- Transmits payment batches from YPII to the bank;
- Support the CFM to develop payment service standards (in collaboration with Finance Controller and FP&A Specialist) and a calendar of payment issuance by payment type to ensure that service providers, external clients and stakeholders are aware of the frequency of payment batches;
- Monitors problems or issues with payments, i.e. service requests, and ensures they are investigated and resolved; and
- Reviews and certifying petty cash transactions.
- Ensure appropriate financial control processes, procedures, and systems are in place and adhered to in the Country Office.
- Support the Finance Controller in the event of audit exercises.
- Involve in improvement and follow up finance-related audit actions.
- Perform other related duties as requested by Finance Controller.
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Commerce or Finance
- Working knowledge of written and spoken English.
- Experience in short term liquidity management across multiple currencies, facilities, and bank accounts.
- In-depth knowledge of financial systems, financial management, and reporting.
- Proficient in computer skills and use of relevant software and other applications, e.g. word-processing, spreadsheet and advanced excel, database, web-based system.
- SAP or ERP Microsoft 365 experience would be preferable.
- Coaching skills and ability to communicate treasury and financial concepts and tasks to finance and non-finance staff
- Strong management skills
- Analytical thinking
- Problem-solving
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment
- Strong team-building and motivational skills
- Strong negotiating, facilitating and influencing skills
