Branch Finance Associate - Fixed Term (Calapan, Mindoro)

at  JTI Japan Tobacco International

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Location and Work Set Up: Calapan, Mindoro / Onsite
Department: Finance
Reporting to: Branch Finance Supervisor
Contract Type: Fixed-term, End of Contract: October 2024

• Strategic Business Partnering / Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Actively participate in commercial and consumer-focused branch activities and attend events that aim to achieve shared goals.
• Proactively engage in local CBU meetings to discuss team operation updates, concerns, challenges, and opportunities
• Collaborate with field forces to ensure timely resolution and closure of team findings (e.g., AR overdue, SPAR, CLU, etc.
• Branch Finance Operations - Accurate and timely review, recording, and reconciliation of branch transactions including but not limited to:
• Timely Check Clearing (as soon as reflected in the Bank Statement) > Daily REVO validation including monitoring of cashless payments
• Review and validation of CWT from customers
• 100% route settlements by assigned PSRs per agreed RS schedule
• Creating CN/DN adjustment
• Drive KPIs and Compliance
• Drive and analyze various KPIs portraying branch performance such as, but not limited to QAR, CL utilization, SPAR, etc.
• Responsible for ensuring that approved policies and procedures with designed controls are effectively implemented in assigned TSR/TER and proactively addresses any identified findings and observations reported by Internal Audit such as but not limited to:
• Undertake a daily/weekly route settlement
• Establishment of PSR accountabilities, reviewing PSR synching
• Drive credit management processes, in compliance with Credit Management policy, while ensuring credit limits are sufficient in achieving sales volume targets.
• Preserve the integrity and accuracy of data by validating and ensuring all supporting documents for customer changes, updates, and approvals are saved in the digital platform.
• Ensures compliance with existing statutory rules and regulations.