Head of Accounting, HK Branch

We are seeking a professional to join our Finance team in Hong Kong as the Accounting Head, reporting to the Hong Kong CFO and Branch Manager. The selected candidate will be responsible for leading the team preparing the regulatory reporting, making payments and other accounting matters.

BBVA - Hong Kong - Full time

Salary: competitive

Main responsibilities

  • To prepare monthly book closing and reports
  • To ensure transactions and accounts are accurate, identify errors and make corrections as needed.
  • To approve the daily entries for accounts department
  • To check and verify all reports to Hong Kong Monetary Authority are timely and effectively delivered
  • To check and review various statistic reports to Government Statistics Department
  • To monitor daily liquidity ratio
  • To manage tax reporting and calculate the monthly tax provision
  • Payment control for general administrative expenses including travel claims and handle HR payments: salary, MPF, employment agency fee, etc.
  • To review daily and monthly Bank reconciliation statements
  • To review daily reports, investigate any irregular items and resolve account discrepancies. To monitor sundry accounts such as prepayment, provision and accruals, deposit account…
  • To prepare year-end financial statements
  • To handle enquiries from Hong Kong Monetary Authority, auditors, tax advisor and accounting related issues from the Head Office

Qualifications & experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field. CPA and other certifications will be considered but are not a must.
  • At least 10 years experience in banking accounting positions. Ideally in a foreign banks branch and leading a team.
  • Deep understanding of the regulatory reporting needs.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Good communications and interpersonal skills to lead their team and handle the relationship with others: operations, compliance, business areas.
  • Excel and the rest of Microsoft Office package professional skills. Additional data management skills would be valuable.
  • Fluency in written and spoken English and Chinese.
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