Senior Finance Operations Specialist

Key Responsibilities* Accounting and Bookkeeping Support- Provide backup support to entity accounting teams during workload peaks, employee absences, transitions, or new-entity setup.- Perform routine bookkeeping and accounting activities in the accounting system, including transaction posting, journal entries, AP/AR support, account reconciliations, period-end activities, and reporting preparation when required. - Migration of historical accounting data from the old accounting system into the new accounting system.* Finance Workflow Implementation- Translate approved Finance processes, SOPs, business rules, and control requirements into practical workflows in systems such as Approveit and SoftLedger.- Configure workflow settings and clarify incomplete or conflicting requirements with relevant functional owners.- Support testing, user acceptance, deployment, and go-live for new workflows, entities, users, and approval structures.* Finance Systems Operations- Manage user accounts, roles, permissions, entity access, approval groups, and related system records.- Perform routine system administration, workflow maintenance, configuration updates, and troubleshooting. - Ensure access and system changes are properly approved, tested, implemented, and documented.* Operational Monitoring and Follow-Up- Monitor failed, overdue, blocked, or incorrectly routed workflows and follow up with relevant owners.- Identify recurring issues, bottlenecks, workarounds, system inconsistencies, and gaps between approved processes and live setup.- Summarize issues, owners, dependencies, blockers, and next actions, and escalate material matters to the Finance Operations Lead.* Finance Project Management and Coordination- Support Finance-led and cross-functional projects by maintaining plans, timelines, action trackers, dependencies, risks, and decision logs.- Consolidate status updates, follow up on overdue actions and missing inputs, and highlight blockers or unclear ownership.- Facilitate project meetings and prepare concise status summaries, decisions, and next steps* Documentation and Knowledge Management- Maintain Finance workflow and system inventories, access registers, configuration records, change logs, issue trackers, and project records.- Prepare and update user guides, work instructions, system procedures, and setup checklists.- Maintain Finance organization charts, legal corporate entity charts, responsibility matrices, stakeholder maps, and approval-authority records.Qualifications- At least 5 years of relevant experience in Finance Operations, Finance Systems, Accounting Operations, Project Coordination, Business Operations, or a similar role.- Hands-on bookkeeping experience, including transaction posting, journal entries, AP/AR, account reconciliations, and maintaining complete accounting records.- Practical experience in month-end and year-end closing, including preparation and finalization of financial statements.- Good understanding of accounting principles, chart of accounts, and financial reporting requirements.- Experience working with ERP, accounting, workflow, approval, or other business systems; experience in system administration, workflow implementation, or process improvement is an advantage. - Understanding of core Finance processes such as procure-to-pay, payment approvals, accounting close, expense management, and access controls.- Experience supporting multinational, multicountry, or multi-entity operations is preferred.- Strong ownership and follow-through, with the ability to keep actions moving without constant supervision.- Strong structured thinking and synthesis skills, with the ability to identify recurring issues, dependencies, and operational gaps across teams. - Strong communication, coordination, and documentation skills.- Good written and spoken English.- Strong working knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets.Opportunity in the Role- Gain broad exposure across Accounting, Finance functions, legal entities, systems, and cross-functional operations.- Learn directly from domain specialists while developing an end-to-end understanding of how Finance processes connect.- Participate in system implementations, new-entity setup, workflow improvements, and transformation projects, with increasing ownership as the group scales..