Overview
Finance Assistant Jobs in Metro Manila at Motul Asia Pacific
Title: Finance Assistant
Company: Motul Asia Pacific
Location: Metro Manila
A global company with a distinctively French identity, Motul remains true to its roots while looking towards the future. Today, Motul continues to power forward its automotive and industrial competences in the lubricant space. Motul employs the same ideology everywhere: passion for ingenuity. This passion, which unites lovers of engineering to their machinery is the same passion that unites Motul’s People. Continuously crafting new solutions, ingenuity is at the heart of Motul’s culture.
Key Responsibilities
Accounts Receivable & Customer Management
- Record all payments received from customers into the ERP system.
- Issue invoices or credit notes as needed and follow up on outstanding payments with relevant
- stakeholders.
- Prepare weekly and monthly customer aging reports and work closely with the sales team and
- customers to improve the Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) ratio.
- Monitor customer credit limits, ensuring appropriate follow-up and timely release of sales
- orders.
- Work closely with teams to ensure smooth operations, address customer account concerns,
- and implement effective controls.
Accounts Payable
- Manage the end-to-end accounts payable process, including the timely processing of invoices, payments, and vendor reconciliation.
- Ensure accurate coding of invoices to the appropriate general ledger accounts.
- Monitor payment schedules and ensure timely disbursements to vendors, while managing cash flow effectively.
- Collaborate with procurement and operations teams to ensure the accuracy of purchase orders and invoice matching.
General Ledger & Month-End Activities
- Prepare journal entries (accruals, prepayments, reclassifications) and balance sheet
- schedules
- Perform bank and key account reconciliations, clearing open items promptly
- Assist with intercompany transactions and reconciliations in compliance with group policy
- Support month-end close to ensure timely submission of financial results to Regional Finance
Costing & Pricing
- Assist with costing build-ups and variance analysis (e.g., purchase price variance, overhead
- allocations).
- Support in preparing cost and margin analysis report to support pricing proposals and
- business decisions
- Reporting, Compliance & Other Responsibilities
- Assist in the preparation of financial reports and analysis
- Ensure compliance with internal and local tax policies
- Participate in ERP/system improvements, automation, and process efficiency initiatives.
- Perform other finance-related duties as assigned
Requirements
- Diploma or Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- At least 2-3 years of relevant Finance/Accounting working experience.
- Strong knowledge of AR, AP, and GL processes.
- Experience in a distributorship, trading, or fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) environment
- is an advantage.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups, formulas) and accounting/ERP systems.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to liaise with internal teams and external
- parties.
- High attention to detail, organized, and able to meet deadlines.
- Able to thrive in a small team setting, demonstrating initiative, ownership, and teamwork.
