Accountant

Count On Me Pte Ltd; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking professional services firm as a Senior Accountant or Finance Manager in a full-time remote role. This dynamic position offers the chance to lead and manage accounting activities for a diverse portfolio of international clients. You will play a crucial role in preparing financial statements, managing payroll, and ensuring compliance with tax regulations. With a focus on digitisation and automation, you will leverage your analytical and problem-solving skills to drive efficiency and support business growth. If you are self-driven and thrive in a remote working environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of accounting experience required.
• Degree in Accounting or related field; CA/CPA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain full set of accounts for assigned clients.
• Process monthly payroll and prepare annual tax returns.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Communication Skills

Time Management

Education

Degree in Accounting

CA/CPA

Tools

ERP Systems

MS Excel

XERO

Job description

Count on Me is a professional services firm that specialises in improving efficiency through digitisation and automation. Since we are a one stop solution, we can follow our clients from the incorporation of their companies all the way to the weekly/monthly assistance, to compliance, payroll, tax and advisory.

At Count on Me, you can trust us with your finance functions.

Tasks

Role Description

We are inviting a self-driven individual to lead and manage a full fledge of accounting and finance activities for a client’s portfolio. This is a full-time remote Senior Accountant or Finance Manager role.

You will have the opportunity to be exposed to a variety of tasks and problems to support international businesses, as well as being involved to other internal commercial matters and corporate secretary type of tasks.

Responsibilities

Reporting directly to the Team Directors, understanding the business models of each assigned clients to act as an advisor, the duties and responsibilities are:

• Prepare and maintain the full set of accounts (AR/AP and GL) of the assigned clients’ portfolio along with supporting schedules and any other necessary reconciliation, as well as reporting and support cashflow forecasts and variance analysis.
• Prepare GST / Withholding Tax returns as well as statutory yearly reporting (i.e. XBRL files, Financial statements under IFRS and SFRS, etc.).
• Perform full monthly payroll processing including: maintain HR master data, process pay-runs, upkeep social security administration, statutory filing and annual income tax return submissions.
• Prepare the annual tax returns for the assigned clients.
• Assist the other Senior Accountants or Directors with company secretary activities for the assigned clients portfolio.
• Work on any other ad-hoc requests from clients as included in the agreed scope.

Requirements

Requirements

• Degree in Accounting or related field; CA/CPA preferred
• Minimum 3 or 4 years of experience in Accounting
• Must be IT savvy and comfortable with ERP systems. Experience with app searching and testing for XERO (ideal)
• Proficient in MS Excel is a must
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and remotely
• Self-driven and able to work within tight deadline
• Commercially minded