The temp accountant, thanks to his/her experience on SAP, will help on designated tasks among the below Finance team responsibilities:
1. Accounting, Financial Operations & Reporting
- Oversee daily accounting operations including but not limited to general ledger, AP/AR, fixed assets, and inventory accounting across stores.
- Ensure timely and accurate month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closings in line with local Korean statutory principles as well as Group reporting standards.
- Report financial statements, treasury and capex using Group software
- Review and validate journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations.
- Follow up all Fixed Assets lifecycle from activation to final write-off in dedicated SAP Group software.
- Manage cash flow, payment cycles, and intercompany transactions with precision and efficiency.
- Maintain accurate stock valuation and collaborate with Supply Chain on shrinkage and stock adjustments.
2. Business Support within the company
- Be a business partner for all stakeholders, training and transferring knowledge of accounting principles and internal control standards (i.e. cash and sales reconciliations with the store retail team)
- Partner with Business Planning to ensure financial transactions are properly recorded.
- Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and reforecasting processes with accounting insights.
- Provide an accounting mindset to new business opportunities like hospitality.
- Provide timely accounting information.
3. Audit & Compliance
- Be the main contact with external auditors. Lead the relationship, schedule interventions and prepare documentation & audit report. Review comments sent by auditor and make sure all relevant topics are identified and discussed prior to meetings with zone or central teams. Ensure compliance with local statutory and tax requirements, including VAT, corporate tax, and customs reporting.
- Lead the tax filing together with external tax consultant and headquarter tax director, ensuring accuracy and timely submission.
- Lead and manage Customs & NTS audit.
- Partner closely with Indirect Purchasing to make sure proper approval is given before expenses are engaged.
- Partner closely with Internal Control to ensure all accounting compliance on internal control is met.
- Strengthen internal controls over daily store reconciliations & inventory.
4. Ad-hoc projects
- Participate and lead the accounting side in new company projects.
