The Finance Assistant (FA) is an integral part of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Team in the Office of the Controller. FA is primarily responsible for the maintenance of accounting journal entries in the financial system in accordance with the Bank’s accounting policies and undertakes various periodical reconciliation work. In addition, he/she will be the daily contact with various departments and IT service provider on matters relating to the Bank’s SAP financial module. Under the supervision of the Senior Accounting Officers the FA performs his/her duties in a consistent, accurate and timely fashion.

The key responsibilities for the legal secretary include but are not limited to:

· Compose and input journal entries into financial system (SAP);

· Maintenance of sub-ledger from the accounting system;

· Review business contracts and ensure proper recording of accrual information;

· Review contracts for fixed assets and intangible assets of the Bank to ensure proper recording of asset and depreciation/amortization;

· Maintenance of accounting workpapers and transformation of certain paper data into electronic format;

· Perform bank statements reconciliation as well as accounts payable and receivable reconciliation on a periodic basis;

· Resolving questions on SAP financial system with various departments and system vendors;

· Participate in system enhancement and user testing;

· Safekeeping of accounting vouchers and supporting documents;

· Follow-up on internal control points raised by external and internal auditors and update status periodically;

· Undertake ad-hoc assignments at the discretion of the supervisor.