**Who You'll Work With**:
- You will be part of our Asia South Office (ASO) Commercial Desk team and will be based out of our Jakarta office. The ASO Commercial Desk closely collaborates with the Engagement CFOs, Partners and Client Service Teams (CSTs), the Clients, as well as other Finance functions or other departments across various McKinsey offices.
**What You'll Do**:
- You will provide highly technical analytical support on Engagement Life Cycle management to the Finance and Accounting team in Southeast Asia offices across different functions on a broad range of areas.
- You will provide centralized support to Engagement CFOs, CSTs on the Engagement Life Cycle (ELC). You will support Engagement CFOs/ CST Leadership in RfP, pricing, budgeting and planning of an engagement. You will review engagement set-up, and ensure compliances with firm's policies & local tax compliance, prior to the start of the project.
- You will review contract commercial terms, navigate CST through any exception approval process and manage a portfolio of WIPs on monthly basis, work to resolve any discrepancies, ensure that accounting entries and adjustments are performed in a timely manner, by month-end close and plays a pivotal role with all stakeholders.
- In this role, you will also collaborate with client's procurement and finance team on the deliverables acceptance process, resolve any issues that may arises/provide impact calculation and reconciliations to enable billings.
- You will be monitoring, analyzing billing and collection aging; working with Engagement CFO/ Engagement Directors to ensure invoices are sent on schedule, AR collected on time and follow-up on outstanding ARs with clients as necessary.
- You will track non-standard arrangements, ensure proper accounting of revenues and reserves, escalate any high risk situations and ensure compliance with global revenue policies.
- You will be working closely with ASO Finance Leadership to implement policies and procedures across seven Southeast Asia offices.
- You will assist both local Finance teams and Corporate Tax team with the ELC aspects of internal/ local statutory/ tax/ ad-hoc state audits as well to take on other ad-hoc responsibilities that may be assigned.
**Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting and finance or a certified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, CPA, CA) equivalent
- 5+ years in finance field or relevant experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and Power Point
- Strong command in English and Bahasa language in both oral and written communications
- Excellent in analytical thinking, problem-solving skills and data visualization skills is a plus
- Strong stakeholder management and the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Exposure to analysis tools such as SAP Cloud Analytics, Tableau, OBIE, SQL and Access queries would be an added advantage
- Experience working directly with senior leadership within the organization; and in a multinational/highly-matrixed professional services environment would be an added advantage