Finance & Accounting Officer (Travel Agency)

MEDMARK TRAVEL Inc. is seeking an experienced Finance & Accounting Officer to join its team.

This position is a full-time office job.

Requirements and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Management, or a related field.
• At least 6 years of hands-on experience in Philippine accounting, payroll, and statutory compliance.
• Strong hands-on experience in payroll preparation and processing, including salary computation, statutory deductions, withholding tax, employee benefits, and 13th-month pay.
• Hands-on experience in preparing, processing, and monitoring SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG contributions, including employee registration, monthly remittances, reporting, and compliance.
• Hands-on experience with BIR tax compliance, including preparation and filing of applicable tax returns, withholding taxes, certificates, and other required BIR reports.
• Ability to independently monitor all statutory deadlines and ensure timely filing and payment of SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, BIR, and other government obligations.
• Working knowledge of SEC, DOLE, business permits, licenses, renewals, and other applicable corporate and government compliance requirements.
• Maintain an up-to-date compliance and financial calendar for management, ensuring that no statutory filing, payment, renewal, or corporate obligation is missed.
• CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or Certified Bookkeeper (TESDA NC III) certification is an advantage.
• Experience in bookkeeping and maintaining complete, accurate, and well-organized accounting records and supporting documentation.
• Experience handling invoicing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments, petty cash, expense monitoring, and bank reconciliation.
• Reconcile accounting records with bank statements, sales records, invoices, receipts, and other supporting documents and promptly report any discrepancies to management.
• Monitor and review company income, expenses, payments, collections, bank transactions, petty cash, and supporting documents to ensure accuracy and prevent errors or irregularities.
• Prepare payment

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s and payment requests for management approval, ensuring that every payment has proper supporting documentation.

• Maintain a clear audit trail and proper documentation for all financial transactions.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of company financial information, employee salaries, client information, and other sensitive business records.
• Immediately report any discrepancies, unusual transactions, missing documentation, or potential financial irregularities to management.
• Prepare accurate weekly financial reports and provide management with regular updates on the company’s financial position.
• Prepare a monthly management summary covering the company’s financial position, cash flow, outstanding receivables and payables, upcoming statutory obligations, and any issues requiring management attention.
• Provide management with regular cash flow, income and expense reports, outstanding receivables and payables, and other financial information required for decision-making.
• Coordinate with the company’s external CPA, auditor, tax consultant, and other professional advisers and provide all required accounting and supporting documents.
• Maintain and review the accuracy, completeness, and transparency of all sales and financial transactions.
• Ensure that payroll, government contributions, taxes, and other statutory obligations are accurately calculated, properly documented, and paid on time.
• Knowledge of Philippine accounting, payroll, taxation, and statutory regulations and current compliance requirements.
• Strong understanding of internal financial controls and ability to identify and report discrepancies or potential irregularities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• High level of integrity and strong ethical standards, with the ability to handle confidential financial, payroll, employee, and company information responsibly.
• Highly self-motivated, responsible, and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong attention to detail with a high level of accuracy and quality in all financial, payroll, and administrative work.
• Excellent organizational, time-management, and problem-solving skills.
• Able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and work effectively under pressure.
• Able to take full ownership of assigned responsibilities and ensure that all financial, payroll, tax, and statutory obligations are completed accurately and on time.
• Positive, professional, service-oriented, and personable attitude.
• Willingness to perform other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned by management. Experience handling government contributions and reports (SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, BIR).
• CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or Certified Bookkeeper (TESDA NC III) license is an advantage
• Support accounting tasks such as invoicing, payments, petty cash, and expense monitoring
• Preparation financial reporting - weekly
• Maintain and audit the transparency and accuracy of all sales and financial transactions
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by management
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Compliance with industry regulations, company policies, and safety standards,
• Strong attention to detail with emphasis on accuracy and quality,
• Efficient time management and adapt task prioritisation
• Highly self – motivated and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and complete tasks with minimal supervision,
• Able to maintain confidentiality of company and client information,
• Self happy, motivated, dynamic, and passionate person regarding working
• Good organisational and problem solving skills, ability to work under pressure,
• Service-oriented, personable, with above average interpersonal and communication skills,
• Experience with Microsoft Office ( Outlook, Word, Excel),
• Excellent Time Management & Multi-tasking skills