General Ledger Leader

“At QIMA, you feel like you belong from Day 1. You join a community of smart minds who not only innovate, but also support and inspire each other. Here, we own our work, have fun together, and make every day count.”

The QIMA Story

At QIMA, we are on a mission to offer our clients smart solutions to make products you can trust.

Operating in over 100 countries, we serve the consumer products, food, and life sciences industries and help more than 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers, and growers achieve quality excellence.

We combine on-the-ground expertise with digital solutions that bring accuracy, transparency and intelligence for quality and compliance data.

What sets us apart is our unique culture. Our 5,000 Qimates live and make decisions every day by our QIMA Values. With client passion, integrity, and a commitment to making things simple, we disrupted the Testing, Inspection, and Certification industry. Are you ready to hop on this exciting ride with us and help us achieve our mission?

• Perform balance-sheet reconciliations and analyses for assigned entities; review and approve reconciliations prepared by direct reports.
• Manage the annual audit process (local, statutory, and group) and liaise with external auditors to ensure audits are completed on time and to an acceptable standard.
• Analyze financial statements and explain variances versus prior periods to management.
• Coordinate with other finance functions during the monthly close to ensure timelines are met.
• Execute month‑end closing activities, including bank and cash reconciliations; timely and accurate posting of journal entries (fixed-asset depreciation, intangible-asset amortization, prepayments, payroll, and other adjustments); and intercompany balance reconciliations.
• Ensure accounting treatments comply with applicable international standards (e.g., IFRS); advise management on best practices for accounting complex transactions.
• Lead improvements to internal finance processes.
• Participate in finance process and system improvement projects as the GL representative, supporting data cleanup for system uploads, balance reclassifications or corrections, and user acceptance testing.
• Manage and develop a team of General Ledger accountants.
• Define, track, and report KPIs for the GL function to monitor productivity, efficiency, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy, Finance, or Management Accounting
• CPA preferred (PH CPA is a strong plus, but often optional in BPO/SSC roles)
• MBA or Master’s units in Finance/Accounting – nice to have
• 3 - 5 years total accounting experience
• 2–3+ years in General Ledger / Record-to-Report (R2R)
• 1–3 years leadership or supervisory experience