Accountant

ESCO ASTER PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 42,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Esco Aster Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based contract research and manufacturing organization, is seeking a Finance professional to support day-to-day accounting, vendor payments, and financial reporting. You will work with the sales and procurement teams, assist in forecasting, budgeting, and liaise with external auditors.

Strong knowledge of Dynamics 365 Business Central and excellent English communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Mandatory: Knowledge and experience using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Good command of both spoken and written English.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication & analytical skills.
• Proactive, flexible, reliable, self-motivated & organized.
• Must be a team player and contribute to team effort.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Able to work independently, a self-starter and task oriented; respectful team player.
• Ability to work well under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Preparation and processing of accounting transactions for customers and vendors.
• Prepare and submit for approval of vendor payments.
• Reconciliation of accounts payable and other balance sheet accounts as required.
• Monitor all payable/petty cash activities.
• Work with Sales team to post Sales orders and follow up on payment from customers.
• Work with Procurement team to review open Purchase Order and Prepayment schedule.
• Monthly AR/AP reporting requirements by Management.
• Prepare monthly schedule for reporting.
• Prepare monthly management account and consolidation reports.
• Perform stock count and processing of accounting transactions for inventories.
• Liaison with external auditors for annual audit and periodic reporting.
• Support forecasting and budgeting exercise.
• Handle ad-hoc duties assigned from time to time.

Skills

Dynamics 365 BC

English communication

Analytical skills

Team player

Organized

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Esco Lifesciences Group is Singapore’s most globalized life sciences company, with annual revenues close to SGD 200M and global operations in over 42 locations and 26 direct countries across North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania.

Esco Aster Pte Ltd is an affiliate of Esco Lifesciences Group and was first incorporated in 2017.

Esco Aster is a contract research development and manufacturing organization founded and deeply rooted by scientists enabling fellow scientists to translate their bench work into commercially available products at affordable prices.

Our scientific work is in emerging and frontier biology utilizing cells as a final product or deriving products from cells which often we use cells as the factory to derive our target product.

Our first commercial breakthrough success is Esco Aster is commercially first in class being first in the world to be certified for cultivated/cell-based meat to FSSC 22000 and by a competent food regulatory body.

We are first in the region to operate an end-to-end integrated full cell line creation/immortalization or engineered cell line, cell culture process development, analytical development for stem cells and exosomes with full cGMP Capabilities from Drug Substance and small-scale fill & finish for final Cell Therapy Product.

The work we do creates a remarkable and lasting impact on our world. We offer you an opportunity to be part of this exciting journey to own your career and firsthand exposure to new emerging modalities supporting translational sciences.

Join us as we redefine BioSolutions for One World and One Health for the current and future generations to come.

One World Biosolutions for One Health.

The Scope

You will be part of Esco Aster’s Finance team and contribute towards the overall site mission and objectives. You will provide support in financial audits, reconciliation of accounts payable and other day-to-day finance office functions.

Primary work location: Ayer Rajah Crescent, Singapore

Job Responsibilities

• Preparation and processing of accounting transactions for customers and vendors.
• Prepare and submit for approval of vendor payments.
• Reconciliation of accounts payable and any other balance sheet accounts as required.
• Monitor all payable/petty cash activities.
• Work with Sales team to post Sales orders and follow up on payment from customers.
• Work with Procurement team to review open Purchase Order and Prepayment schedule.
• Monthly AR/AP reporting requirements by Management.
• Prepare monthly schedule for reporting.
• Prepare monthly management account and consolidation reports.
• Perform stock count and processing of accounting transaction for inventories.
• Liaison with external auditors for annual audit and periodic reporting.
• Support forecasting and budgeting exercise.
• Handle ad-hoc duties assigned from time to time.

Key skills and competencies:

• Mandatory: Knowledge and experience using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Good command of both spoken and written English.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication & analytical skill.
• Proactive, flexible, reliable, self-motivated & organized.
• Must be a team player and contribute to team effort.
• Proficiency in software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Able to work independently, a self-starter, self-motivated and task oriented. A team player who is respectful.
• and supports/communicates constructively.
• Ability to work well under pressure.