Senior GL Accountant

About Nextwaves

Nextwaves is a technology company that develops and supplies products, equipment and solutions to domestic and international customers. For our next growth stage, we are standardising our Finance & Accounting platform to tightly connect accounting, manufacturing, inventory and management reporting data.

Position details

• Level: Senior Specialist
• Compensation: Negotiable

About the role

We are looking for a Senior GL Accountant with strong hands-on experience in month-end close, balance-sheet reconciliation, manufacturing accounting and product costing. This senior individual-contributor role will own core GL and close workstreams, strengthen accounting data quality and support ERP Finance automation from source transactions to reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Own the monthly, quarterly and annual GL close; prepare and review journals, accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, payroll interfaces and foreign-currency entries.
• Reconcile bank, AR/AP, inventory, WIP, fixed assets, payroll, tax and intercompany subledgers to the GL; investigate and resolve differences with clear supporting evidence.
• Operate monthly manufacturing costing for KIT, Antenna and RFID under approved standards; reconcile materials, labour, machine costs, WIP, finished goods and cost of sales.
• Analyse costing, inventory and capacity variances; work with Production, Supply Chain and FP&A to improve source data and explain margin movements.
• Prepare trial-balance schedules, draft VAS financial statements and supporting files for tax, audit and IFRS/reporting packages; coordinate with reviewers and advisers.
• Maintain Vietnam–Singapore intercompany reconciliations, export and collection support schedules, related-party documentation and period-end settlements.
• Act as Finance key user for ERP Record-to-Report and Costing: maintain accounting master data, perform UAT, validate posting rules and controls, and guide junior accountants when assigned.

Candidate requirements

• University degree in Accounting, Auditing, Finance or a related field.
• At least five years of accounting experience, including at least two years of hands-on GL close, balance-sheet reconciliation and financial-statement schedules.
• Hands-on experience in a manufacturing, assembly or inventory-based business, including WIP and product costing.
• Solid command of VAS, Vietnamese tax, e-invoicing, import–export, the close process and draft financial-statement preparation.
• Strong reconciliation and problem-solving skills; able to trace reported balances to source documents and resolve differences.
• Strong Excel skills and experience using an ERP or accounting system; ERP implementation or UAT exposure is preferred.
• Working English; proactive, careful and control-minded, with integrity and a willingness to work directly with source data.

Preferred

• Experience in ERP implementation or UAT, particularly Record-to-Report, inventory or costing modules.
• Experience in technology, electronics, equipment or export businesses; exposure to IFRS, Vietnam–Singapore intercompany or reporting packages.
• ACCA, CPA or equivalent qualification; Power Query, BI, SQL or other data-analysis skills.

Opportunities at Nextwaves

• Own core GL, close and costing workstreams while helping build Finance & Accounting automation at an early stage.
• Competitive, capability-based compensation; benefits in line with company policy and applicable regulations.