Role Introduction
Report to: Passenger Sales Accounting Manager
The Accountant sits under the Finance Customer Travel team of Cathay Pacific Financial Services Department will play a pivotal role in ensuring amount billed are properly settled and amount settled are reconciled with bank remittance. Candidates with audit experience with recognized audit firms are preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure update of Account Receivable / General Ledger / Bank General Ledger records by overviewing completeness and correctness of Account Receivable, completeness and correctness of General Ledger and Bank records
- Follow up issues with Customers / Global Acquirers / Payment Gateway Providers, reviewing General Ledger account balances and ensuring sufficient Bank Account balance for fund deduction by Multiple Currency Plan
- Review analysis on debtor’s status, analysis on unreconciled bank settlement, analysis on Global Acquirers settlement exchange difference and analysis on Global Acquirers credit card commission fee
- Handle system development tasks by following up with vendors on system development issues, reviewing development process and prepare test cases
- Complete checking of User Acceptance Test in Test Environment, Pre-Production Test in Production Environment and monitor Production data during post-production maintenance period
- Handle user profile for system access by reviewing user profile access right, regular user access health check
- Prepare Debtor’s Ageing Report, review Debtor’s status and process bad debt provision and unclaimed coupon status and process unclaimed revenue provision
- Prepare Sales In Advance Carriage (SIAC) Ticket Recon Report, General Ledger adjustment and Interim and Year-end Schedules
- Prepare budget on Sales In Advance Carriage (SIAC), budget on Unclaimed Revenue and budget on Miscellaneous Revenue
- Conduct coaching session to ensure appropriate skill set of staff, review staff development programs as appropriate, recommend appropriate training courses for staff development; and review staff performance and provide constructive feedback
Requirements
- A degree holder in Accounting with professional designation in Accountancy preferred
- Minimum 7 years' relevant experience of which 3 years' experience in supervisory. Audit experience with recognized audit firms a definite plus
- Strong analytical mind and interpersonal skills
- Strong skills in MS Office applications, especially in Excel
- Experience in using SAP advantageous
- Good command of spoken and written English and Cantonese/Chinese
- Able to work under pressure and being flexible when necessary to meet deadlines
- Willing to challenge the status quo and improve work processes
Personal & Application Information
Cathay Pacific is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with our Applicant Personal Information Collection Statement and for recruitment purposes only. Candidates not notified within eight weeks may consider their application unsuccessful. We keep records of your data for no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which we obtained them and any other permitted linked purposes. If your application is unsuccessful, we will keep your details on file for as long as is necessary to process your application or for the purposes of further job opportunities if you agree to such longer periods.
