Finance and Administration Officer

• Inventors of Brand Power - the most powerful, iconic TV ad platform driving brand sales.
• Creators of Home Tester Club - the world's largest digital community of shoppers delivering social proof content.
• Hybrid work model - work 2 days from the office, 3 from home.
• Competitive package, including 14 days vacation, additional leave entitlements &medical benefits.

The Role

The Finance and Administration Officer is a key support role in ensuring proper functioning of finance for our entities throughout the world.

Reporting to the Finance & Operations Manager - APAC, you will primarily focus on the maintenance of the accounts payable system, ensuring the correct coding of invoices and expense claims (including tax allocations) across several international markets.

This role will also support the People & Culture and admin departments for Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines assisting with the onboarding of new employees and management of office expenses.You will work as part of a collaborative and goal-oriented team and be responsible for dealing in a multiple entity/currency and SOX compliant environment, as well as abiding by local accounting/tax rules and regulations.

This is a remote role from the rest of the finance team who are located In Australia and Canada and therefore strong communication, self-motivation and time management skills are essential for being successful in this role.

Previous experience working with SOX or within amulti-country and multi-currency environmentis highly desirable.

The Brand Power Company

The Brand Power Company, a WPP company, is the world's leading provider of endorsement advertising platforms across television, digital and social, including Brand Power, Medifacts, and Home Tester Club.We're big fans of authentic. Not just in the solutions we provide clients globally, but in the people we welcome to our team. Genuine team players up for collaborating, creating, and celebrating awesome results for our clients.

We knowpassion beats pretense and that it's the down-to-earth who best step up to any challenge. We champion diversity. We collaborate across sixteen offices worldwide. We're expanding into new markets. We're committed to solutions that drive measurable results for our clients. And we play as hard as we work.

With more than 100,000 staff based in 110 different countries,WPP is the world's largest creative transformation company and is home to some of the biggest communications, advertising, and media agencies, including Ogilvy, GroupM, Grey, and Wavemaker. A career with The Brand Power Company opens up endless opportunities to learn and grow within a powerful network of WPP brands.

Key Responsibilities

Finance

• Onboarding of new suppliers
• Processing, coding, and entering of invoices
• Processing staff expense claims
• Resolving supplier queries and investigating outstanding invoices
• Performing manual and automatic payment runs
• Executing bank and supplier statement reconciliation
• Providing assistance where required in SOX and statutory audits
• Training of new staff on how to use the company's PO and expense claim system

Office Administration

• Assist the global People & Culture team with onboarding of new employees in Malaysia and Singapore
• Management of office expenses
• Assist executive team with expense claims
• Assist with arranging team events
• Other ad hoc tasks as required

What youcan dois more important to us than what you have done previously.

We value an open mind, a desire to succeed and good old fashioned hard work over a laundry list of skills. If you think you have what it takes but don't tick every box, then we absolutely encourage you to give us a shot. We'd love to meet and get to know the real you, as well as seeing what else is in your toolbox.

Our Qualifications and Experience Wishlist

• Post-secondary education in business (accounting preferred), or equivalent combination of education and experience
• High levels of attention to detail, initiative, self-motivation, time management and ability to collaborate in a team environment
• Competency in Microsoft Excel
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Minimum 2 years experience in an admin or finance position

Our Benefits

• A competitive salary of 4,500-5,000 per month
• Annual discretionary bonus
• A fun advertising agency work environment
• Excellent international career opportunities in a high growth company

We're Big Fans of Authentic

Diversity and inclusion is fundamental to who we are, and what has always made us tick. We recruit and reward people based on capability and performance. We don't discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability. You may think we care about your purple hair or love of cats, but we don't. We believe treating everyone with authenticity and respect simply gives us the best chance of delivering success.

At The Brand Power Company, we are committed to ensuring that your personal information is protected and never misused. You can view our policy here: https://www.thebrandpowercompany.com/recruitment-privacy-policy